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
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 May 2005
Type
Police station
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The front appears as a symmetrical mirrored pair of 2-storey 2-window houses. Constructed of red brick under a slate roof with overhanging eaves and tile cresting, with central brick lateral stacks to front and rear roof pitches; brick and sandstone detailing. Doorways to outer sides, each with a boarded door with plain overlight under a flat moulded stone canopy supported on decorative brackets. Inner sides have pairs of windows, tall 18-pane horned sashes with flat arched heads of gauged brickwork and stone sills. Same windows aligned to 1st floor under a pair of hipped half-dormers with finials, which flank the central lateral stack. Sandstone sill band over a dentilled brick course. Between the pairs of upper storey windows is an oversized sandstone tablet bearing a decorated shield in relief, reading 'AD 1901'. To the ground floor, beneath the sill band, is a wide rectangular panel with eared sandstone surround; it is rendered inside, but perhaps referred to the police station originally.

The E and W gable ends are abutted by semi-detached houses of similar date. Rear, partly visible, has 2 x 4-pane sashes under segmental brick heads to upper storey, flanking lateral stack. Some brick lean-tos to lower storey.

In front of the building is a paved area bounded by a forecourt wall and railings: low red brick wall with sandstone saddleback coping surmounted by plain iron railings. To each end is a gateway bounded by square-section stone piers with carved tops. Plain iron gates, the outer posts with decorative scrolled tops.

Main entrance to L door, interior now modernised and converted to offices.

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