Latitude: 51.5274 / 51°31'38"N
Longitude: -0.0794 / 0°4'45"W
OS Eastings: 533326
OS Northings: 182688
OS Grid: TQ333826
Mapcode National: GBR V6.9N
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.KVWZ
Plus Code: 9C3XGWGC+W6
Entry Name: Court House and Police Station
Listing Date: 21 September 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376533
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470535
ID on this website: 101376533
Location: Shoreditch, Hackney, London, EC1V
County: London
District: Hackney
Electoral Ward/Division: Hoxton East & Shoreditch
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hackney
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Leonard with S Michael, Shoreditch
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Police station Courthouse
TQ 3382 OLD STREET
735/35/10072 Court House and Police Station
II
Police court and station. 1903-8 by John Dixon Butler. Edwardian Baroque style. Red brick with Portland stone dressings and the third floor and ground floor are stone fronted. The base is constructed of worked granite blocks. Four storeys and nine window bays wide. Symmetrical composition with a curved single storey height wall at the west end and gate piers to the police station yard at the east end. The central bay is recessed, stone-fronted and contains the entrance door and porch. The central entrance bay has a triangular pediment with the horizontal base recessed, which encloses a stone carved Royal coat-of-arms. Below this is a Venetian window with rusticated columns and balustrade, above a curved porch with two Roman Ionic columns. The stone-fronted attic storey which runs across the top of the building is pierced by circular windows. Below this is a wide stone bracket eaves cornice. Windows to first and second floors on the main front are double sashes, with pedimented heads to first floor. End pilasters. Ground floor has 6 round-headed openings and two three-light canted bays adjoining doorcase.
INTERIOR: Spacious waiting hall with leaded and glazed windows depicting letters standing for Edward VII, by Morris and Co. Coloured mosaic floor by Diespeker and Co, with MP (Metropolitan Police) letters. Fine double-flight staircase leadeing to a smaller courtroom on the first floor. The original light fittings and Renaissance-style niches on the landing wall survive. The hall is lit by a coloured glazed dome. The main courtroom is situated on the ground floor. Both courtrooms are panelled, the main one has a curved dais wall, and an inbuilt bookcase. Other staircases are plain with the chunky square newels characteristic of stations by Dixon Butler.
One of the finest Edwardian civic buildings in London, accomodating courtrooms, station, living quarters and cell blocks (to the rear) all in one building.
Listing NGR: TQ3331082693
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