Old Police Station and Magistrates Court is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 August 1989. Police station, magistrates court.

Old Police Station and Magistrates Court

WRENN ID
floating-chalk-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 August 1989
Type
Police station, magistrates court
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Mainly single-storey, but attic to police station. Rubble with freestone dressings, paler to magistrates court, which has deep red brick voussoir arches. Below the sill band at angles are unusual ramped buttresses. Slate roofs with cresting, and dog-tooth eaves band to R; gabled cross range to L, and gablet roof to taller court at R with iron finials and conical ventilator. The police station has twinned horned sash windows to both floors with relieving arches and chamfered jambs. Distinctive porch inscribed 'Police Station' with R side stepped inwards above the impost to a Caernarfon Arch derived entrance on which the shoulders are roll-moulded. Studded, pointed arch door. 3-grouped windows to centre with Caernarfon arched heads and latticework bars over the glazing. Gabled porch to the magistrates court; freestone dog-toothed pointed arched over flatter brick arch; label and dog-toothed ornament returned around the L side. Studded pointed arch doors. Three windows to R grouped under continuous label; red brick pointed arches over horned 12-pane sashes with stop-chamfered jambs. Lattice work ventilation panel to the gablet. 3 similar but not grouped, windows to the R side and slate hanging to rear.

Rubble forecourt wall with roll-moulded band.

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