Description

WINCANTON CP NORTH STREET (East side)
ST7128
8/208
Former Police Station
26.1.84

GV II
Police Station, now houses. 1856. By Robert Shout of Yeovil. Local stone boasted rubble with ashlar dressings: Welsh
slate roofs between stepped ornamental gables, stone and yellow brick chimney stacks. 'H'-plan. 2 storeys, 1+3+1 bays.
Plinth, ashlar quoins, eaves course; 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows with shoulder arches to recesses and
elaborate worked heads, the lower windows with labels; bays 1 and 5 project for 2 bays each, with doors in segmental
pointed arches to inner bays; centre bay is a wide segmental-pointed through archway with "County Police" and the
Somerset County Arms and motto worked onto lintol, under a shaped label; here the eaves course is arched into a stepped
false gable with final. Interior not seen; despite conversion the external character little altered. (Sweetman G,
History of Wincanton, c1904).

Listing NGR: ST7115828805

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532035

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)