Former Police Station, including forecourt wall, gates & railings is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 May 2005. Police station.
Former Police Station, including forecourt wall, gates & railings
- WRENN ID
- heavy-vault-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside MP: Sir Mark Tami (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 May 2005
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- Former Police Station, including forecourt wall, gates & railings, Shotton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 306 689
- Coordinates
- 53.21345, -3.04059
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former police station, built in 1901, features a symmetrical design resembling a pair of two-storey houses with two windows each. It is constructed from red brick and topped with a slate roof that has overhanging eaves and tile cresting. The building includes central brick lateral stacks on both the front and rear roof pitches, along with brick and sandstone detailing.
Each outer side has a doorway with a boarded door and a plain overlight, both sheltered by a flat moulded stone canopy supported by decorative brackets. The inner sides are adorned with pairs of tall 18-pane horned sash windows that have flat arched heads made of gauged brickwork and stone sills. The same style of windows is aligned on the first floor beneath a pair of hipped half-dormers with finials, which flank the central lateral stack. A sandstone sill band runs above a dentilled brick course. Between the pairs of upper storey windows is a large sandstone tablet featuring a decorated shield in relief, inscribed with 'AD 1901'. Below the sill band on the ground floor is a wide rectangular panel with an eared sandstone surround, which is rendered inside and may have originally referred to the police station.
The east and west gable ends are adjacent to semi-detached houses of similar age. The rear, which is partly visible, has two four-pane sashes under segmental brick heads on the upper storey, flanking the lateral stack, and some brick lean-tos on the lower storey.
In front of the building is a paved area enclosed by a forecourt wall and railings. The low red brick wall features sandstone saddleback coping and is topped with plain iron railings. Each end has a gateway marked by square-section stone piers with carved tops, and plain iron gates with decorative scrolled tops on the outer posts. The main entrance is located at the left door, while the interior has been modernised and converted into offices.
Local climate
Former Police Station, including forecourt wall, gates & railings receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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