MAGISTRATES COURT POLICE STATION SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE

MAGISTRATES COURT, GILMORTONS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228055
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: MAGISTRATES COURT POLICE STATION SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MAGISTRATES COURT, GILMORTONS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228055
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: MAGISTRATES COURT POLICE STATION SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MAGISTRATES COURT, GILMORTONS ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: MAGISTRATES COURT, LOWER LEICESTER ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: POLICE STATION, 2, LOWER LEICESTER ROAD
Statutory Address 4:: POLICE STATION, GILMORTONS ROAD
Statutory Address 5:: SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE, GILMORTONS ROAD
Statutory Address 6:: SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE, LOWER LEICESTER ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: MAGISTRATES COURT, GILMORTONS ROAD
Statutory Address:: MAGISTRATES COURT, LOWER LEICESTER ROAD
Statutory Address:: POLICE STATION, 2, LOWER LEICESTER ROAD
Statutory Address:: POLICE STATION, GILMORTONS ROAD
Statutory Address:: SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE, GILMORTONS ROAD
Statutory Address:: SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE, LOWER LEICESTER ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Lutterworth
National Grid Reference:: SP 54545 84740

Details

LUTTERWORTH GILMORTON ROAD SP 54 84 9/10001 Police Station, Superintendents House and Magistrate's Court II Police station, superintendents house and magistrate's court. 1842 with early C20 additions to rear, possibly by S P Pick (County Architect). Police station: red brick with black brick band. Wooden eaves cornice to hipped slate roof with end stack to left and stack to rear to right. Shallow central projection carrying triangular pediment. Two storeys with rusticated quoins to centre and ends. Regular three window front, glazing bar sashes in raised surrounds with segment heads and key blocks on first floor; segment-headed windows in segment-headed recesses on ground floor, also with key blocks. Narrow segment-headed glazing bar sashes flanking segment-headed central door surround with key block and plain door. Superintendent's house: red brick with stone first-floor cill-band. Paired bracketted eaves to Swithland slate shallow-pitched hipped roof with end stack to left and rear stack to right. Two storeys; irregular fenestration on both floors with gauged heads and wide canted bay on ground floor to left. Half-glazed door with pentice-hood to right of centre. Attached to rear of Police Station at right by high wall of exercise yard and outbuildings. Magistrate's court: red brick with paired bracketted eaves cornice to hipped Swithland slate roof with ball-finials and central lead-covered louvred cupola with concave-sided pyramidal roof and weather-vane. Single storey; five window front, tall wooden cross casements. Doors in recessed porches to left and right, marked 'PUBLIC ENTRANCE' over left-hand door and 'POLICE ENTRANCE' over right-hand door. Moulded stone-dressed surrounds with inscriptions over. Low brick towers to left and right behind porches with brick and stone banding above, topped by recessed blind crenellations and small leaded domes. Attached to rear of Police Station at left by low range of buildings with slate roof. Interior. Court room retains original oak seating and dado panelling, with central dock, with turned baluster rails, and raised area for magistrates

Listing NGR: SP5454584740

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Legacy System number:: 402546
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.