Former Police Station
FORMER POLICE STATION, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239013
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER POLICE STATION, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239013
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER POLICE STATION, NORTH STREET
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:
- FORMER POLICE STATION, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7115828805
Details
WINCANTON CP NORTH STREET (East side)
ST7128
8/208
Former Police Station
26.1.84
GV II
Police Station, now houses. 1856. By Robert Shout of Yeovil. Local stone boasted rubble with ashlar dressings: Welsh
slate roofs between stepped ornamental gables, stone and yellow brick chimney stacks. 'H'-plan. 2 storeys, 1+3+1 bays.
Plinth, ashlar quoins, eaves course; 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows with shoulder arches to recesses and
elaborate worked heads, the lower windows with labels; bays 1 and 5 project for 2 bays each, with doors in segmental
pointed arches to inner bays; centre bay is a wide segmental-pointed through archway with "County Police" and the
Somerset County Arms and motto worked onto lintol, under a shaped label; here the eaves course is arched into a stepped
false gable with final. Interior not seen; despite conversion the external character little altered. (Sweetman G,
History of Wincanton, c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7115828805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416738
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sweetman, G, History of Wincanton, (1903)
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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