Old Police Station
OLD POLICE STATION, BEDMINSTER PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204068
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Old Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POLICE STATION, BEDMINSTER PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204068
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Old Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POLICE STATION, BEDMINSTER PARADE
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:
- OLD POLICE STATION, BEDMINSTER PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58854 71877
Details
BRISTOL
ST315871 BEDMINSTER PARADE, Bedminster 901-1/45/369 (West side) 12/03/76 Old Police Station
GV II
Former police station. 1882. By Henry Crisp. Squared, Pennant rubble, Bath stone dressings, gable stacks and a tile roof. Single-depth, axial plan with a right-hand rear wing. Tudor Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys; 12-window range, central pair in 3-storey tower. A near-symmetrical front has a 2-centred archway to the central porch in a stepped gable, with wheel bollards, steel gates and portcullis, containing a lancet doorway with heavy, stopped ovolo moulding; the porch has a pitched roof of weathered limestone ashlar. 2 raking buttresses behind to a square tower, with first-floor clock, front and back, under a hoodmould, arrow slits each side and overhanging machicolated turret with crenellations. To each side a plinth with cyma weathering, a blocked lancet doorway on the far right with hood to floral stops and trefoils in the tympanum. The flanking ground-floor sections have a C20 left-hand front brought forward flush with the porch under a roll-top coping, with 2 garage entrances at the end and a door and window beside the porch. Flat-headed windows with uneven jambs and stopped ovolo mouldings, all linked by lintel and sill bands, to 6/6-pane sashes. Weathered corbel table and parapet with embrasures and cross arrow slits, stepped up to tower; square turrets at each end and gable-end stacks behind on the crow step gables. INTERIOR: range of cells at the rear with white glazed tiles, and central rear lateral stair flights.
Listing NGR: ST5885471877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378937
- 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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