Police Station (EHER 39314)

A Police Station and magistrates' court built around 1840s. It is red brick with gault brick dressings and slate roofs.

Listed building description A Police Station and magistrates' court built around 1840. It is red brick with gault brick dressings and slate roofs. The exterior is a nearly symmetrical 2-storey east elevation. Central advanced gable with canted bay to ground floor with 2-light transomed stone mullioned window and single-light side windows. The rear elevation has a single-storey office with single-light casements on the north. The courtroom is to the south with one 2-light mullioned window to north gable and two small single-light casements to west, separated by a plank door. There is a cell block on the ground floor of the main range: with two heavily barred windows in granite surrounds which light the cell passage. Inside are two stick-baluster staircases located adjacent to the two east entrances doorways, separated by the main office. There are two holding cells opening off a secure corridor. The corridor has an inner iron lattice door and an outer studded plank timber door. The passage is barrel vaulted, with squinches over the two west windows. There is a cast-iron stove at north end of passage. Each cell with studded timber outer door and iron lattice inner door, secured with sliding bolts built into the masonry. Corridor divided into 2 areas by a further studded timber door. Each cell has a ventilation grille over the doors, and a flat timber bed incorporating a flushing toilet under a hinged lid. They has barrel-vaulted ceilings. The courtroom has a raised dais, barrel vaulted ceiling and plaster cornices. <1>