Police Station and Magistrates' Court

POLICE STATION AND MAGISTRATES' COURT, LONGTOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087636
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:
Police Station and Magistrates' Court
Statutory Address:
POLICE STATION AND MAGISTRATES' COURT, LONGTOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087636
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:
Police Station and Magistrates' Court
Statutory Address 1:
POLICE STATION AND MAGISTRATES' COURT, LONGTOWN ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POLICE STATION AND MAGISTRATES' COURT, LONGTOWN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brampton
National Grid Reference:
NY 52724 61055

Details

NY 5261 BRAMPTON LONGTOWN ROAD BRAMPTON (West side)

15/38 Police Station and Magistrates' Court

II

Police Station and Magistrates Court. Late 1860's and 1902. Dressed red sandstone with rusticated plinth, Welsh slate roof with coped gables and stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys: 4 bays to Carlisle Road facade, with 3 bay extension left: 2 bays to Longtown Road facade. Gable entrance has projecting stone porch with double pilaster strips and moulded capitals, entablature with triglyphs, moulded cornice and blocking course with erased lettering MAGISTRATES OFFICE. Moulded gable pediment above. Sash windows with glazing bars to sides and extension. Right of entrance is building inscribed on lintel POLICE STATION, 1902: triple and double casements with glazing bars, and 2 hipped dormers above. Garage extension to right has plank doors and wall rounded to corner. Magistrates Office is now Police Station with Magistrates Court behind: former Police Station is now rest rooms and kitchen, with former flat above.

Listing NGR: NY5272861057

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
77833
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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