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Police Station and Attached Railings and Lamp

A Grade II Listed Building in Kentish Town, London

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Latitude: 51.5497 / 51°32'58"N

Longitude: -0.142 / 0°8'31"W

OS Eastings: 528924

OS Northings: 185055

OS Grid: TQ289850

Mapcode National: GBR DW.4VM

Mapcode Global: VHGQS.H99W

Plus Code: 9C3XGVX5+V6

Entry Name: Police Station and Attached Railings and Lamp

Listing Date: 14 May 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379124

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478490

ID on this website: 101379124

Location: Kentish Town, Camden, London, NW5

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Kentish Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Silas the Martyr with Holy Trinity Kentish Town

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



CAMDEN

TQ2885SE HOLMES ROAD
798-1/42/928 (North side)
14/05/74 No.12A
Police Station and attached railings
and lamp

II

Police station. 1894-6. By Norman Shaw, restored 1984. Yellow
stock brick with stone bands at sill levels and below parapet.
3 storeys. 8 windows. Stone dressed, round-arched entrance
engraved "Police" with hoodmould, fanlight and double panelled
doors. To right vehicle entrance (now blocked to form a room
behind) of stone 4-centred arch with heavy rusticated block
dressings. Ground floor sashes with stone lintels, those
flanking entrance being paired. 1st and 2nd floors with
segmental-arched brick heads and stone keystones. Parapet.
Original rainwater heads and pipes.
INTERIOR: altered with partitions and false ceilings.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with
overthrow having blue lamp with the legend "Police".

Listing NGR: TQ2892485055

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