Description

TL 5460 BOTTISHAM HIGH STREET
(North East Side)

11/9 No. 123 (The
Old Courthouse)

II

Former magistrates court and offices, probably a police station,
now a house, built 1858. Gault brick with low pitch, slate
roofs. Plan of single storey office or police station on the
front with a two storey courtroom at rear. Office has chanelled
rustication to the quoins, walls and voussoirs of the window
arches. Low pitch roof with a parapet. Three round headed bays
to the front wall, with a band at impost height. Each bay has a
recessed fixed light window with a pivot casement. The
courtroom at the rear is of a similar brick, but without the
rustication, and has a hipped low pitch slate roof. Two storeys
with pilaster strips at the corners and between the two bays of
the side elevations. Each bay has round headed arches to two
fixed light windows with pivot casements. The main entries are
in flanking porches to the front of the slightly projecting
courtroom.

Cambridgeshire Connection: News Report

Listing NGR: TL5470960366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26420033

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)