The historic neo - Georgian style decorative brick built, with sash windows and traditional glass lamp, police station at Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK
Pangbourne Police Station, erected in 1911 and designed by architect, J F Hawkins, County Surveyor, Berkshire County Council. The building played an important part of the expansion of the Berkshire Constabulary in 1910, paired with a similar Station at Didcot. Both were designed by a John F Hawkins, but only Pangbourne has survived as the Didcot Station has now been replaced. The walls are of English Garden Wall Bond with a string course between the floors, strongly-accented blue brick quoins on the 4 corners of the building and the 2 corners of the gabled projection, and built on a chamfered plinth. The windows, front and rear, are all sash windows, each with a flat arch and decorative brickwork cill, with a single, projecting brick column between each pair of the front windows. The entrance to the Police Station is by double wooden doors, pilasters and architrave of moulded concrete blocks with the name in stone, POLICE STATION, beneath a composite canopy of blue bricks and concrete blocks jutting over, and an illuminated glass blue lamp above. The original Police Station, designed in 1911, is a characteristic building of its period, sufficiently so to be mentioned in Pevsner’s Berkshire as being “a handsome neo-Georgian building”, in good condition and still open until very recently when it was permanently closed to the public, though still in continuing use by Thames Valley Police.
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Location: Reading Road, Pangbourne, West Berkshire, UK
Photo credit: © Stephen Frost / Alamy / Afripics
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