Description

HARROW ROAD
TQ2582SW
1900-/29/10010 No 325, Harrow Road
Police Station
II
Police Station. 1911-12 by John Dixon Butler, architect and surveyor
to the Metropolitan Police. Red brick with stone dressings and quoins.
Tiled, gabled mansard roofs. Courtyard plan. 9 windows. 3 storeys,
attic & semi-basement. Main entrance to right in penultimate bay with
stone doorcase having broken pediment supported on elongated swelling
brackets; architrave doorway with keystones. Outer & central
pedimented bays with stone, canted bays rising from the semi-basement
to the 1st floor. Ground floor & bay windows are casements with
glazing bars to top panels; ground floor stone architraved. 1st & 2nd
floor sashes with glazing bars & central modillions; 1st floor gauged
brick heads with keystones. Entablature with projecting modillion
cornice extending to gables to form pediments; central gable with
Venetian-type windows. A stone balustrade fronts the mansard roof with
dormers & links the gables. Attached cast iron railings to area, with
lamp standard at base of steps having a crenelated lantern with blue
glass inscribed "Police" in white and surmounted by a crown. Interior
provides offices with living accommodation; cell block to rear of
courtyard. A fine example of a "first class town station".

Listing NGR: TQ2502082049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554263

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)