Police Station

AISKEW A 684 SE 28 NE (south side) 6/13 Police Station

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Police station. 1904. Random coursed squared stone and ashlar, graduated stone slate roof. Main 2-storey, 4-bay block with a 2-storey, 2-bay block at a right angle on left to front. To rear of main block to sight a 1- storey wing. Neo-Jacobean. Main block: central board door in moulded chamfered quoined surround with 4-centred arch; flanked by chamfered 4-light mullion-and-transom windows with central major mullions. To right bay a small one-light chamfered window with arched head. Moulded first-floor string course, stepped above door. Above central 2-light chamfered mullion window flanked by 4-light chamfered mullioned windows, with central major mullions. Bracketed eaves. 2 ridge stacks. Left court house wing: plinth, left return has large 4-light chamfered mullion-and-transom window through both floors. To left a board door in chamfered surround with 4-centred arch and hoodmould. First floor: 4-light chamfered mullion window. This bay is gableted. To gable end a 4-light chamfered mullion window and a small one- light opening with arched head to its right. Above a coat of arms in a Doric surround; sill on consoles, pilasters with obelisks over, frieze, cornice. In the frieze is the inscription 'Pax et Justitia', below the coat of arms it is inscribed 'Court house erected AD 1904'. To left return of main block is a full-height gabled porch with board door in chamfered moulded surround and 4-centred arch. 2 ridge stacks to main block and one to rear.

Listing NGR: SE2695288374