Former Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1983. Police station. 1 related planning application.

Former Police Station

WRENN ID
blind-sandstone-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1983
Type
Police station
Address
Former Police Station, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EA
OS grid reference
ST 774 477
Coordinates
51.22893, -2.3238
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former police station, built in 1856-1857 to the designs of C E Davis, is an example of Gothic architecture. It features local rubble with Bath stone elements and has tiled roofs. The upper parts of the chimneys are made of ashlar, with chamfered corners and gablets above the base. The building is two storeys high and has a layout of three bays, one bay, two bays, and one bay. A large central gable projects forward and includes a pointed and traceried window on the first floor, along with a three-bay stilted arcade on the ground floor. The flanking gables above the first floor have half-dormers with pointed and traceried windows. There is a moulded band above the ground floor that separates the subdivided and traceried windows. To the right, there is a hipped gabled cross-wing with a square bay on the ground floor.

Local climate

Former Police Station receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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