Description

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SJ 68 NW STOCKTON HEATH VICTORIA SQUARE,

64-/4/10000 Police Station

II

Police station and magistrates' courts, with integral lodgings for constables; now all police
station. Dated 1912 on gable and rain-water hopper with minor alteration. Red brick in English
garden wall bond, with red sandstone dressings, red tiled roof hipped over the north end. Main
range on north-south axis with police station at ground floor, former magistrates' court above
and fonner constables' lodgings at north end including short west wing and longer east wing.
Arts-and-Crafts style. Two-and-a-half storeys, 3:3:1 windows including a gabled wing to the
left combined with a 2-storey flat-roofed porch-cum-stair-turret in the re-entrant angle, and
a broad gabled staircase wing to the right. There is a broad stone band with weathered
drip-course over each floor, both carried round. The central portion has 2 buttresses, three
windows at ground floor, a pair of tall 6-light mullion-and-transom windows flanking the left
buttress and breaking the eaves with a pedimental gable containing a stone plaque lettered
"1912", and a cross-window to the right of the 2nd buttress. The 2-storey porch to the left has
an arched doorway in its re-entrant side (former public entrance to court), a 2-light window
above, a large rainwater hopper to the left lettered "1912", and a brick parapet with stone
coping. The left wing, flush with the porch (which has a 2-light window on each floor close
to the junction), has a recently blocked doorway to the firth (formerly to the domestic quarters),
a 2-light window to the left, 2 similar windows at 1st floor and a large coped gable with 2
similar but smaller windows. The staircase wing to the right has an arched doorway offset left
and a cross-window at 1st floor. Tall banded and corniced chimney behind ridge of roof, roof
siren near south end. The gabled south front has a wide arched entrance offset left, with a
splayed reveal, moulded surround and stone head, and a recessed square-headed doorway with
an overlight of 3 arched lights; a 6-light mullion-and-transom window to the right, a very large
tripartite mullion-and-transom window at 1st floor with bebased Art Nouveau leaded glazing,
and a small 3-light mullioned window in the gable, the centre light containing a carved shield
with a crown over it. INTERIOR: large courtroom at 1st floor with original pitch-pine
panelling, magistrates' bench, prisoners' dock, and journalists' pew ; former police cells at
ground floor. Forms group with Mulberry Tree Hotel on north side of square (q.v.), and with
Red Lion Inn on west side of London Road (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ6145686161

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533134

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