Northallerton Police Station

NORTHALLERTON POLICE STATION, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150739
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:
Northallerton Police Station
Statutory Address:
NORTHALLERTON POLICE STATION, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150739
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Northallerton Police Station
Statutory Address 1:
NORTHALLERTON POLICE STATION, HIGH STREET

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
NORTHALLERTON POLICE STATION, HIGH STREET

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Northallerton
National Grid Reference:
SE 36801 94188

Details

NORTHALLERTON HIGH STREET SE 3694-3794 (east side) 6/9 No 72 (Northallerton Police Station) 23.4.52 (formerly listed as No 72 (The Friarage)) GV II House, then local authority offices, converted into police station 1987. Mid-late C18 with later alterations. Pink/brown brick in English bond and English garden wall bond, Westmorland and Welsh slate roofs. L-shaped plan with wing to rear right; 2 storeys, 1:3:1:3:1 bays. Outer bays slightly recessed from main block, but may have once projected forward. Main block: English bond, Westmorland slate roof; sill bands to both floors; moulded cornice; central part-glazed 4-panel door below fanlight with Gothick glazing bars in portico with Roman Doric half-columns with a patera on each frieze, carrying open pediment; on first floor above, staircase window rather more than a semicircle, divided into 3 by wooden mullions, with header arch; flanking, tripled canted bays of 4-pane sash windows with flush exposed sash boxes and flat arches; hipped roof to main block, also to canted bays. End bays: on each floor a matching 4-pane sash window, and in outer corners a door, of 6 fielded panels to left, 4 panels to right, each below a blocked overlight with intersecting glazing bars and in Tuscan doorcase; moulded cornice; hipped Welsh slate roofs. Stacks at ends of main block. Rear: irregular plan, windows of many types. Left return: studded and vertically boarded door in C19 ashlar chamfered raised quoined pointed-arched surround with blank shields in spandrels below hood- mould; to its left, 2-light mullion window with round trefoiled lights and hoodmould; also, further to rear, ground-floor sash window. Interior: C19 encaustic floor tiles in entrance hall; mid-late C18 staircase with column-on-vase turned balusters, formerly of open well plan above front hall, now compartmented; on both floors, from stairs hall an elliptical arch with fluted architraves leading to rear corridors; stairs hall cornice has fluting and acanthus leaves; rear corridors have round arches with fluted architraves; first-floor doorways have fielded-panel linings and original architraves (the doors having been replaced).

Listing NGR: SE3680194188

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332803
Legacy System:
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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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