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Latitude: 51.0579 / 51°3'28"N
Longitude: -2.4129 / 2°24'46"W
OS Eastings: 371158
OS Northings: 128805
OS Grid: ST711288
Mapcode National: GBR MZ.FNHP
Mapcode Global: FRA 56TB.5T2
Plus Code: 9C3V3H5P+4R
Entry Name: Former Police Station
Listing Date: 26 July 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1239013
English Heritage Legacy ID: 416738
ID on this website: 101239013
Location: Shadwell, Somerset, BA9
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Wincanton
Built-Up Area: Wincanton
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Police station
WINCANTON CP NORTH STREET (East side)
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Former Police Station
26.1.84
GV II
Police Station, now houses. 1856. By Robert Shout of Yeovil. Local stone boasted rubble with ashlar dressings: Welsh
slate roofs between stepped ornamental gables, stone and yellow brick chimney stacks. 'H'-plan. 2 storeys, 1+3+1 bays.
Plinth, ashlar quoins, eaves course; 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows with shoulder arches to recesses and
elaborate worked heads, the lower windows with labels; bays 1 and 5 project for 2 bays each, with doors in segmental
pointed arches to inner bays; centre bay is a wide segmental-pointed through archway with "County Police" and the
Somerset County Arms and motto worked onto lintol, under a shaped label; here the eaves course is arched into a stepped
false gable with final. Interior not seen; despite conversion the external character little altered. (Sweetman G,
History of Wincanton, c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7115828805
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