Central Police Station

The Central Police Station is a Grade II listed building featuring a concave entrance front at the northern angle, topped by a tall, square clocktower above a two-storey convex porch. The long facades taper back on each side.

The clocktower has a domed polygonal top with a weathervane, open pediments for the bell-openings, and segmental pediments over the clock faces. The building has three storeys and a basement, with an overall dentil cornice and a plain frieze. The lower part of the structure showcases banded rustication, while the second floor has a plain ashlar treatment with a band course and stellar panels on the balustrades above. There is one window above the bowed two-window porch, with architraves, keyblocks, and aprons on the upper floor. The ground floor features arched heads flanking an open pedimental doorcase adorned with carved Swansea arms and double doors. The windows are sash with small-pane glazing, and open metalwork lamp standards flank the entrance walls along with area railings. Inside, there is a circular entrance lobby with a Doric columned screen.

The symmetrical facade facing Alexandra Road consists of two, four, three, four, and two bays, with a three-bay frontispiece and two-window pavilions at each end made of Portland stone. The centre block has a pediment featuring a heraldic dragon in an aedicule, flanked by trophies, volute supporters, and husk drops. A voluted keyblock tops the thermal window on the top floor, and there is an Ionic portico in antis with cavetto splays on the windows. The Swansea arms are displayed over the wide ground floor entrance, which has an architrave and keyblock. The flanking windows are linked vertically and detailed similarly, with a thermal window featuring a volute on the left side of the ground floor. The right side has a moulded cill-band interrupted by single and paired architraves of former fire-brigade entrances, which are now blocked.

The two-bay ashlar return flank on Orchard Street is a simpler continuation with fewer ashlar dressings, comprising two, five, one, three, one, three, and one bays. The range is completed by an earlier corner building on Pleasant Street, which connects to a low two-storey range and a taller mixed-style building featuring scrolled pediments, carved panels, and a corner bartizan.