Description

LUTTERWORTH GILMORTON ROAD
SP 54 84
9/10001 Police Station,
Superintendents House and
Magistrate's Court
II
Police station, superintendents house and magistrate's court. 1842
with early C20 additions to rear, possibly by S P Pick (County
Architect).
Police station: red brick with black brick band. Wooden eaves cornice
to hipped slate roof with end stack to left and stack to rear to
right. Shallow central projection carrying triangular pediment. Two
storeys with rusticated quoins to centre and ends. Regular three
window front, glazing bar sashes in raised surrounds with segment
heads and key blocks on first floor; segment-headed windows in
segment-headed recesses on ground floor, also with key blocks. Narrow
segment-headed glazing bar sashes flanking segment-headed central door
surround with key block and plain door.
Superintendent's house: red brick with stone first-floor cill-band.
Paired bracketted eaves to Swithland slate shallow-pitched hipped roof
with end stack to left and rear stack to right. Two storeys; irregular
fenestration on both floors with gauged heads and wide canted bay on
ground floor to left. Half-glazed door with pentice-hood to right of
centre. Attached to rear of Police Station at right by high wall of
exercise yard and outbuildings.
Magistrate's court: red brick with paired bracketted eaves cornice to
hipped Swithland slate roof with ball-finials and central lead-covered
louvred cupola with concave-sided pyramidal roof and weather-vane.
Single storey; five window front, tall wooden cross casements. Doors
in recessed porches to left and right, marked 'PUBLIC ENTRANCE' over
left-hand door and 'POLICE ENTRANCE' over right-hand door. Moulded
stone-dressed surrounds with inscriptions over. Low brick towers to
left and right behind porches with brick and stone banding above,
topped by recessed blind crenellations and small leaded domes.
Attached to rear of Police Station at left by low range of buildings
with slate roof. Interior. Court room retains original oak seating and
dado panelling, with central dock, with turned baluster rails, and
raised area for magistrates

Listing NGR: SP5454584740

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521927

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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