Police Station
POLICE STATION, SPARROWS HERNE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103582
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE STATION, SPARROWS HERNE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103582
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLICE STATION, SPARROWS HERNE
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:
- POLICE STATION, SPARROWS HERNE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13929 94626
Details
TQ 19 SW BUSHEY SPARROWS HERNE (Southwest side) Bushey
10/150 Police Station -
- II
Police Station. 1883-4 for Metropolitan Police. Red brick with terracotta and sandstone dressings. Slate hipped roof. 3 storeys. 5 bays. 2 bays to right set back slightly. Entrance to right: banded rustication to jambs, round arched head, recessed spandrels below a bracketed moulded pediment. 'Metropolitan Police' inscribed in frieze. Plinth. Stringcourse below ground floor windows, upper string courses and sandstone courses. Glazing bar sashes in keyed moulded and gauged brick surrounds with slightly cambered heads. First and second floor windows with aprons. Coved cornice. 3 large stacks with projecting strips on shafts and oversailing caps. Left return has 2 bays, windows in plain reveals with gauged brick heads. Pediment over stone surround to entrance towards rear. Extruded stack with offsets. Right return: 1 bay to 2 storey 1 bay lean-to, extended to rear 1 storey with a coved cornice, stack to rear. Originally building held an office, an occasional Court, 3 cells and 2 married quarters. Attached to front are forecourt railings with a pier and Police lamp to entrance.
Listing NGR: TQ1392994626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164199
- 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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