The Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. A C18 Police station. 2 related planning applications.
The Police Station
- WRENN ID
- ruined-vestry-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1951
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- The Police Station, the Sands, Appleby-In-Westmorland, CA16 6XN
- OS grid reference
- NY 685 204
- Coordinates
- 54.57799, -2.48869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Police Station, dated 1770, is constructed of stone with a hipped roof. It is a two-storey building with a central doorway featuring a rectangular fanlight above. The ground floor has two windows, and the first floor has three, separated by a stringcourse. Long and short quoins are present. Projecting forward on either side are single-storey wings with hipped roofs, each incorporating a segmental-arched passageway in front. A flagged terrace with a parapet wall and a central gate, leading up four stone steps, sits in front of the central block and between the wings.
Local climate
The Police Station sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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