Description

1.
1042 NORTHGATE STREET
(North East Side)

Law Courts and
County Police Office
SU 0061 2/138 9.4.54.

II*

2.
By T H Wyatt 1835. Symmetrical group of Bath stone buildings in Grecian style.
One storey. High central portico of 4 Ionic columns on stone base approached
by 5 stone steps between rectangular stone bastions. The columns carry a
complete entablature and pediment with carved Coat of Arms in tympanum. The
entablature is returned each side over side walls, terminating in projecting
pier formation behind outer columns and enclosing lobby with 3 entrance doors,
the outer ones now blocked with windows set in upper part. Very tall central
6 panel double door framed with pilasters and entablature carried round lobby
as string course. The blocked flanking doors have similar surrounds. The
outer wall entablature has stele cresting over cornice. The entablature carried
round walls of court rooms to rear, all of same height as portico. Flanking
portico and in front of courts are lower wings, each with chamfered quoins,
cornice and parapet with moulded coping. 3 windows each in architrave surrounds
with frieze and cornice over. Extensions of similar design and height, slightly
recessed, each with arched niche. These wings have a double plinth with moulded
sill course.
The interior has a square hall with coffered ceiling, partly glazed. The
stairs rise to left and right between solid walls.

Listing NGR: SU0014261690

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Law Courts And County Police Office at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17543992

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (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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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)