Police Station

This is a detached police station built in a Hotel de Ville style. It is located towards the north end of the Promenade, with entrances on its side elevation in Albert Place and its rear elevation to Queens Road.

The building is asymmetrical, with a three-story attic and basement. The west-facing elevation, which fronts the Promenade, is thirteen bays wide and constructed of snecked rubble stone with vermiculated dressings, stock brick voussoirs, deep entablature and cornice bands, and cill bands. Buttresses are present at the centre of the ground floor. The steep-pitched mansard roof is covered in slate and features truncated chimney stacks. Dormers with steep, overhanging roofs and casement windows are present, paired to the left. Three bays are advanced towards the right-hand end, with an additional storey and splayed angles to the second and third floors, and to the top floor corner, all featuring small cast-iron parapets. Sash windows are largely original, some are paired, and an anthemion-panelled cast-iron window box holder is located across the central bays. The basement is boarded up.

The Albert Place front is similar in design, with seven windows over three stories and an attic. The main entrance is recessed in the centre of the front, which is at basement level. Corbelled chimney breasts are situated to the left and right. A central Gothic tripartite dormer is present, and the first floor features Italianate paired, stilted arched windows flanking a similar tripartite window, all with colonnettes and inserted tympanum roundels. A broad, centrally positioned Gothic pitched roof porch, featuring ornate bargeboards and brackets carried on tall columns with foliage capitals, provides shelter. Local quartz panels are used for the outer ground floor windows.

The left side elevation is six windows wide over four stories, with an attic and basement, and features plainer detailing. Chimney breasts at the end and centre act as pilaster strips. The rear elevation is irregular, with four- and five-window, three-story, attic and basement end blocks flanking a one-story and basement range with a splayed front.

The interior retains a large entrance hall with Gothic detailing to the staircase and lift shaft cage, lit by stained glass windows. The Cambrian Hall, formerly the dining room, is located to the north; it is five bays long, aisled, with arched trusses, ironwork spandrels bearing the QH monogram, and a part-glazed roof. A three-bay Court Room is situated to the west, featuring deep ribs that are carried at the dais end on paired columns. Wall panelling, dado rails, and acanthus cornices are present in the main rooms. Original ceramic sinks with breast taps are retained in the ground-floor toilets.