History

Probably built in the 1860s and the police station shown on this site in a map of Conwy in Black’s Guide to North Wales, 1869. It is also shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.

Exterior

A castellated 2-storey police station of grey pebble-dashed walls with dressed-stone quoins, dressings and bands, on a battered rendered plinth. The steep slate roof is behind an embattled parapet and coped gables on moulded kneelers, and has end stacks of brick on stone bases. The 3-bay front has an asymmetrical accent provided by an advanced gabled bay set back from the L end, which is under a crow-stepped gable with blank shield and pinnacle. A string course is between storeys. The central entrance has a heavy moulded surround and a replacement boarded door under an earlier overlight. Mullioned windows incorporate 2-pane margin-lit sashes to the ground floor, and shorter 1st-floor windows of 1 over 2 panes. The L-hand bay has 2-light windows. The central bay has an offset 2-light 1st-floor window, and the R-hand bay has a 2-light ground-floor window and single-light 1st-floor window. Between storeys the central and R-hand bay have a wide inscription tablet with 'Police Station' in raised letters. In the L-hand bay is a cast-iron street sign above the ground-floor window.
The 2-window L gable end to Bangor Road has 1-light windows to the outer sides. The 1-window R gable end to York Place has windows in each storey with sashes incorporating 2 lower panes. Set slightly back from the gable end is a lower 2-storey 3-window wing, with details similar to the main range but without embattlement, and with sashes of 1 over 2 panes. It has a panel door L of centre, and 2-light windows except for a single-light window upper R. Facing Bangor Road is another lower and shorter 2-storey 1-window rear wing, set slightly back from the gable end of the main range. It has small sash windows, of which the 1st-floor window has 2 panes in its lower sash. The rear of the building is enclosed by a high pebble-dashed yard wall with concrete embattlements and rendered quoins which, facing York Place, incorporates a panel door.
The forecourt has a ramp to the R side of the entrance and stone steps at the front to square panelled piers with shallow pyramid caps. A pebble-dashed parapet wall has freestone coping.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as a C19 police station of definite character, and for its contribution to the historical townscape of Lancaster Square.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29483178

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