The Old Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Police station. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Police Station
- WRENN ID
- dark-trefoil-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- The Old Police Station, Union Street, Yeovil, BA20 1PQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 557 158
- Coordinates
- 50.94058, -2.63134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Police Station is a building that dates back to 1849 and is now used as offices. It is constructed from local cut and squared stone with random coursing and Ham stone dressings, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features three bays on both the west and south elevations.
The west facade has a central bay that projects and is topped with a pediment. There are doorways in the first and third bays, each with plain surrounds and shallow flat hoods supported by console brackets. The lintel above the doorway in the first bay is inscribed with the words "Police Station," and the door itself is a six-panel type with the upper four panes glazed. The doorway in the third bay is partially blocked, with a window now inserted. Between these two doorways, there is a pair of eight-pane sash windows that have separate architraves but share a continuous stone hood on brackets.
On the first floor, there are twelve-paned architraved sash windows on the sides, and in the center, there is a trio of semi-circular header sashes with architraves, springer stones, and mullions, with the center window featuring a keystone. The eaves cornice is present, and there is a panel inscribed with "erected 1849" in the pediment. The return elevation has plain details, including a central doorway and narrow paired windows on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Police Station receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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