THE OLD POLICE STATION AND THE OLD POLICE STATION DENTAL PRACTICE

THE OLD POLICE STATION AND THE OLD POLICE STATION DENTAL PRACTICE, BREDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386810
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POLICE STATION AND THE OLD POLICE STATION DENTAL PRACTICE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD POLICE STATION AND THE OLD POLICE STATION DENTAL PRACTICE, BREDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386810
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: THE OLD POLICE STATION AND THE OLD POLICE STATION DENTAL PRACTICE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD POLICE STATION AND THE OLD POLICE STATION DENTAL PRACTICE, BREDON 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:: THE OLD POLICE STATION AND THE OLD POLICE STATION DENTAL PRACTICE, BREDON ROAD

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Tewkesbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 89516 33241

Details

SO 89 33 TEWKESBURY BREDON ROAD

859-1/6/393 The Old Police Station and The Old Police Station Dental Practice

GV II

Prison, remodelled as police station; now a dwelling and dental surgery. 1816; remodelled 1854; extended 1902. English bond brick; some original stone architraves remain. Slate hipped roof with corbelled brick eaves courses. Brick axial stacks with heightened shafts. PLAN: Rectangular on plan, with entrance to right of centre on NW front and bowed bay opposite at rear [SE]; outshut and small single-storey range at right end of rear [SE] elevation. Remodelled as police station in 1854; and in 1902 extended at SW end with single-storey addition. Main range converted to a dwelling and extension used as dental surgery in C20. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window NW front; centre right-hand bay breaks forwards with 4-centred arch recess containing original stone door frame, with hoodmould, chamfered arris, 4-centred arch, barred fanlight and studded door with grille; 4-pane sashes [probably installed 1854] with gauged red brick flat arches. Single-storey extension on right with tablet in gable inscribed CC 1902'. Rear SE elevation, full-height 2-storey bow to left of centre, with plain stone window architraves, the two on first floor and one to right with small-pane iron-frame windows, the stone architraves and first floor architrave to left have later casements; single-storey range and outshut on right. INTERIOR: At least part of the first floor is supported on brick vaulting. HISTORY: Tewkesbury Gaol was built in 1816, following an Act of 1813, to supersede the Abbey belfry which had been used as the gaol. It is recorded that a treadmill was in use at the gaol in 1828. In 1854 the gaol was closed and remodelled as a police station; it was extended in 1902 by the County Council. SOURCE: VCH Gloucestershire, p.148.

Listing NGR: SO8951633241

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Sources

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Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1907), 148

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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.