The Old Police Station
THE OLD POLICE STATION, ORANGE GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394212
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD POLICE STATION, ORANGE GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394212
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD POLICE STATION, ORANGE GROVE
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:
- THE OLD POLICE STATION, ORANGE GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75167 64838
Details
ORANGE GROVE 656-1/41/1160 (North side) The Old Police Station 11/08/72
GV II
Former police station and magistrates' court, now restaurant. 1865. By Major Charles Davis. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Rectangular office with Magistrates Court over to front, cell block behind. STYLE: Romanesque revival. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, three bays. Horizontal grooving to ground floor, dentilled string course at first floor level, with blocking course over. First floor windows have round heads, lozenge and zig-zag ornamentation, imposts. Segmental heads to ground floor windows, key and imposts. All windows are two/two sashes with horizontal bars only. Very fine panelled double doors to left, segmental head with carved key, and reel mould to soffit. Heavy bracketed cornice, hipped roof, two ashlar stacks with pots. Rear cell block has additional basement storey. Two floors of cells with barred windows. Top floor with four plain sash windows, two/two, for offices. Further plain windows, and entrance to section house on east alleyway. Ashlar wall with grooving to ground floor at west end. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but it had the Magistrate's Court behind the first floor windows. A fine example of a mid-C19 police station. [See RCHME Report and Survey in NMR, ref. 87867] SOURCES: N. Jackson, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture (1991), 187.
Listing NGR: ST7516764838
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509612
- 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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