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SJ9856SE LEONARD STREET 611-1/7/70 (West side) 11/11/71 Police Station and Superintendent's House including stables and boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: LEONARD STREET County Police Station)

GV II

Police station, superintendent's house, stables and boundary walls. Disused at time of inspection. Dated 1891. By William Sugden and William Larner Sugden. Brick with stone dressings and plain-tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, main block and flanking recessed wings. Main block a 6-window range with central entrance in full-height concave arched recess. Paired doors in stone architrave with date and title in entablature. Pilasters each side ornamented with Staffordshire knots, and with feathers as capitals. County arms above. Round-arched window with circular leaded glazing fills the upper part of the arched recess. Flanking windows have stone architraves, and flat lintels to ground floor (15-pane sashes); round-arched windows above (12-pane sashes). Turrets corbelled out above the ground floor at each side. End wall and central stacks. Moulded stone cornice and string course over ground-floor windows. Stressed stone quoins to ground floor. Left-hand wing recessed: Two 15-pane sash windows to ground floor, 2 round arched windows above. Steps to basement storey behind heavy cast-iron area railings. Right-hand wing formerly the sergeant's house: doorway to right with canopy porch and overlight above the porch. Canted bay window with Ipswich glazing, and similar window above. The police station is linked to the superintendent's house to the S by walls and entrance gates to yard: curved wall flanks the entrance gates, with round-arched main gate and side entries separated by brick pilasters surmounted by heavy ball finials. Heavy tooled stone banding, stone copings, all somewhat exaggerated. Superintendent's House: 2-storeyed, 3-window range with advanced central bay housing entrance. Shouldered wood architrave with bolection moulded cornice continuing across side lights. 20-pane sash window above, with moulded cill band and cornice. Tympanum over window with low-relief stone carved county arms. Central block terminates as low tower with swept

parapet and pyramidal roof. Flanking shallow segmental bow windows to ground floor, with tripartite sashes. 16-pane sash windows in shallow projecting panels to first floor with steep gables with moulded wood cornice forming pediments above. Axial and rear stacks, enriched with moulding and tilehanging. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the buildings are enclosed in a walled courtyard to the rear, with stabling and other ancillary buildings.

Listing NGR: SJ9859956354

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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