THE POLICE STATION

THE POLICE STATION, SHEINTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254071
Date first listed:: 20-May-1987
List Entry Name:: THE POLICE STATION
Statutory Address:: THE POLICE STATION, SHEINTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254071
Date first listed:: 20-May-1987
List Entry Name:: THE POLICE STATION
Statutory Address 1:: THE POLICE STATION, SHEINTON STREET

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:: THE POLICE STATION, SHEINTON STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Much Wenlock
National Grid Reference:: SJ 62335 00048

Details

1. 5357 MUCH WENLOCK SHEINTON STREET (East Side) SJ 60 SW 6/101 The Police Station

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2. Police Station. Mid C19. Black brick with gault brick plinth, quoins, bands, window heads and bracketted eaves cornice. Slate roof with two gables to rear on which sit cruci-form stacks with oversailing cornices. Bracketted eaves carried around gables. Two storeys; three window front with paired pointed-arched lights in outer bays on first floor, over triple pointed-arched lights, and flanking central first-floor window. Continuous impost bands on both floors. Central doorway in pointed-arched surround with nail studded door and overlight. Stone plaque over doorway with 'POLICE STATION' in raised lettering. Wall to right with gault brick crenellations & pointed-arch doorway in centre, leading to small exercise yard, and carried round the sides. Small iron plaque to the right of the doorway reads 'VR/PERSONS/THROWING/STONES/AT THE/TELEGRAPHS/WILL BE/ PROSECUTED'.

Listing NGR: SO6211299843

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Legacy System number:: 255066
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.