Police Station, including forecourt railings and gate piers is a Grade I listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1953. Police station.
Police Station, including forecourt railings and gate piers
- WRENN ID
- silver-alcove-elm
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1953
- Type
- Police station
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Neo-classical style, of 3 bays and 3 storeys, in ashlar with angle pilaster strips, slate roof behind a low coped parapet on a moulded cornice, and panelled stone end stacks. The central pedimented bay is advanced and is rusticated in the lower storey. Its doorway is set back in an arched recess and has double panelled doors. Flanking ground-floor windows are set back in similar arched recesses. The windows are 12-pane hornless sashes in the lower and middle storeys. In the middle storey the central window has a segmental pediment, the outer windows triangular pediments. The upper storey has 6-pane hornless sash windows under hood moulds. The central pediment has a dated tablet.
The L gable end is built into Town Wall and is rubble stone with coped gable and freestone dressings. In the lower storey are 2 late C19 small-pane windows under shouldered lintels. Below the L-hand window is the jamb and part of the arch of a blocked medieval postern gate. In the middle storey is a sash window to the R of a single over 2 panes, while upper L is a window with 6 over 2-pane sash.
The forecourt is enclosed by cast iron railings with anthemion finials, on a dressed stone dwarf wall. Central stone steps are framed by square panelled gate piers with moulded caps.
Not inspected.
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