Thame Police Station
THAME POLICE STATION, PARK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047939
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thame Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- THAME POLICE STATION, PARK STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047939
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thame Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- THAME POLICE STATION, PARK STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THAME POLICE STATION, PARK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thame
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 71232 05353
Details
THAME PARK STREET SP7105 (North-east side) 5/134 Thame Police Station
II
Police station and police house, now police station. Dated 1854 to datestone on porch to right, with C20 alterations and C20 addition to rear. Brown brick; slate roofs; brick end stack to right of centre with diagonally set flues, end stack to rear right with truncated diagonally-set flues. 2-storey, 2-window station block with 2-storey, 2-window police house, now station, forming cross-wing to right. Gabled porch with stone parapetted gable to left, having plank door to right return. Gabled porch to right of centre with stone parapetted gable and plank door with segmental stone head. Irregular fenestration of sashes to station. Irregular fenestration of wood casements to former police house. Gabled roofs. Original prison cells with doors to ground floor centre. Station built by Giles Holland, a local builder at a cost of six hundred and fifty four pounnds, shared by Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Reputed to be the earliest surviving police station in the county.
Listing NGR: SP7123205353
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248565
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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