Former Police Station

The former police station, built in 1886, is designed in a playful Tudor style and is accompanied by a town hall. The police station is a two-storey, symmetrical building with twin gables and a narrow recessed central entrance bay. It is constructed of brick with painted stone detailing and features a tiled roof with plain oversailing eaves and bargeboards. There are three simply moulded stacks, and the first floor has three-light plain glazed windows in each flanking bay, with moulded mullions. The ground floor has similar six-light mullioned and transomed windows. The building includes continuous moulded brick dripcourses and two stringcourses, along with a plain moulded plinth. The central entrance bay has a depressed arched head with a fluted keystone and moulded surround, leading to a contemporary door with simple scrolled ironwork. A single-light window on the first floor has a moulded ogee head. Decorative stone relief plaques adorn both gables, with the left one displaying the date 1886. An external clock is mounted on a decorative iron scrolled bracket, and there is an inserted stone plaque in the left bay that records its erection in 1911. To the right, there is an alleyway with a contemporary flat-arched opening and a stepped brick-coped wall running north.

Adjoining the police station to the west is the town hall, which is a single-storey building featuring a large Dutch gable to the west. It consists of two bays, with the right bay advanced and both having catslide roofs. A central dormer with a timber-framed gable and plain eaves contains a three-light leaded window. Each bay has a three-light mullioned window to the left of a door, with the left bay's door now blocked and rebuilt as a window. The contemporary door to the right features ironwork and mouldings similar to those on the police station. The town hall also has a moulded plinth, mullions, and window reveals, along with Renaissance grotesque decoration in the west gable pediment and lead coping to the gable. Below the gable, there is a ten-light mullioned and transomed leaded window. Modern brick extensions have been added to the rear.