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Latitude: 51.382 / 51°22'55"N
Longitude: -2.3582 / 2°21'29"W
OS Eastings: 375167
OS Northings: 164838
OS Grid: ST751648
Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.BM6
Mapcode Global: VH96M.2JNC
Plus Code: 9C3V9JJR+RP
Entry Name: The Old Police Station
Listing Date: 11 August 1972
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1394212
English Heritage Legacy ID: 509612
ID on this website: 101394212
Location: Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Police station
ORANGE GROVE
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The Old Police Station
11/08/72
GV II
Former police station and magistrates' court, now restaurant. 1865. By Major Charles Davis.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: Rectangular office with Magistrates Court over to front, cell block behind.
STYLE: Romanesque revival.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, three bays. Horizontal grooving to ground floor, dentilled string course at first floor level, with blocking course over. First floor windows have round heads, lozenge and zig-zag ornamentation, imposts. Segmental heads to ground floor windows, key and imposts. All windows are two/two sashes with horizontal bars only. Very fine panelled double doors to left, segmental head with carved key, and reel mould to soffit. Heavy bracketed cornice, hipped roof, two ashlar stacks with pots. Rear cell block has additional basement storey. Two floors of cells with barred windows. Top floor with four plain sash windows, two/two, for offices. Further plain windows, and entrance to section house on east alleyway. Ashlar wall with grooving to ground floor at west end.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but it had the Magistrate's Court behind the first floor windows. A fine example of a mid-C19 police station. [See RCHME Report and Survey in NMR, ref. 87867]
SOURCES: N. Jackson, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture (1991), 187.
Listing NGR: ST7516764838
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