Court House and Police Station
COURT HOUSE AND POLICE STATION, OLD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376533
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Court House and Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- COURT HOUSE AND POLICE STATION, OLD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376533
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Court House and Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT HOUSE AND POLICE STATION, OLD 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:
- COURT HOUSE AND POLICE STATION, OLD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hackney (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33326 82688
Details
TQ 3382 OLD STREET
735/35/10072 Court House and Police Station
II
Police court and station. 1903-8 by John Dixon Butler. Edwardian Baroque style. Red brick with Portland stone dressings and the third floor and ground floor are stone fronted. The base is constructed of worked granite blocks. Four storeys and nine window bays wide. Symmetrical composition with a curved single storey height wall at the west end and gate piers to the police station yard at the east end. The central bay is recessed, stone-fronted and contains the entrance door and porch. The central entrance bay has a triangular pediment with the horizontal base recessed, which encloses a stone carved Royal coat-of-arms. Below this is a Venetian window with rusticated columns and balustrade, above a curved porch with two Roman Ionic columns. The stone-fronted attic storey which runs across the top of the building is pierced by circular windows. Below this is a wide stone bracket eaves cornice. Windows to first and second floors on the main front are double sashes, with pedimented heads to first floor. End pilasters. Ground floor has 6 round-headed openings and two three-light canted bays adjoining doorcase.
INTERIOR: Spacious waiting hall with leaded and glazed windows depicting letters standing for Edward VII, by Morris and Co. Coloured mosaic floor by Diespeker and Co, with MP (Metropolitan Police) letters. Fine double-flight staircase leadeing to a smaller courtroom on the first floor. The original light fittings and Renaissance-style niches on the landing wall survive. The hall is lit by a coloured glazed dome. The main courtroom is situated on the ground floor. Both courtrooms are panelled, the main one has a curved dais wall, and an inbuilt bookcase. Other staircases are plain with the chunky square newels characteristic of stations by Dixon Butler.
One of the finest Edwardian civic buildings in London, accomodating courtrooms, station, living quarters and cell blocks (to the rear) all in one building.
Listing NGR: TQ3331082693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470535
- 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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