Description

AISKEW A 684
SE 28 NE
(south side)
6/13 Police Station

_ II

Police station. 1904. Random coursed squared stone and ashlar, graduated
stone slate roof. Main 2-storey, 4-bay block with a 2-storey, 2-bay block
at a right angle on left to front. To rear of main block to sight a 1-
storey wing. Neo-Jacobean. Main block: central board door in moulded
chamfered quoined surround with 4-centred arch; flanked by chamfered 4-light
mullion-and-transom windows with central major mullions. To right bay a
small one-light chamfered window with arched head. Moulded first-floor
string course, stepped above door. Above central 2-light chamfered mullion
window flanked by 4-light chamfered mullioned windows, with central major
mullions. Bracketed eaves. 2 ridge stacks. Left court house wing: plinth,
left return has large 4-light chamfered mullion-and-transom window through
both floors. To left a board door in chamfered surround with 4-centred arch
and hoodmould. First floor: 4-light chamfered mullion window. This bay is
gableted. To gable end a 4-light chamfered mullion window and a small one-
light opening with arched head to its right. Above a coat of arms in a
Doric surround; sill on consoles, pilasters with obelisks over, frieze,
cornice. In the frieze is the inscription 'Pax et Justitia', below the
coat of arms it is inscribed 'Court house erected AD 1904'. To left return
of main block is a full-height gabled porch with board door in chamfered
moulded surround and 4-centred arch. 2 ridge stacks to main block and one
to rear.

Listing NGR: SE2695288374

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443703

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings