Police Station
POLICE STATION, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245331
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE STATION, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245331
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLICE STATION, BRIDGE 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:
- POLICE STATION, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abingdon on Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 49845 96978
Details
SU 50 96 ABINGDON BRIDGE STREET
(South West side)
583/1/10001
Police Street
GV II
Police station. 1863, extended c1870. Stone rubble with red brick dressings and stone string course. Slate hipped roof. PLAN: long rectangular plan with splayed right-hand [N] end, and with 3-bay extension at left [SE] end built about 1870. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 7-bay NE front with 3-bay addition projecting on left. 16-pane sashes with flat rubbed brick arches, brick jambs and stone cills. Central doorway with similar brick arch and jambs and with rectangular overlight with glazing bars and flush panelled door. Stone string course at first floor level, inscribed at centre:- COUNTY POLICE STATION. 3 bays on left similar but with lower string course and eaves. Splayed corner on right. At rear, sash windows on first floor with glazing bars and smaller cell windows on ground floor with iron bars; single-storey addition on right; extension to main range on right has brick rear wall and gabled wing. INTERIOR: The old cells have been retained, with their WCs.
Listing NGR: SU4984596978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468728
- 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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