Description

TL 5460 BOTTISHAM HIGH STREET (North East Side) 11/9 No. 123 (The Old Courthouse)

II

Former magistrates court and offices, probably a police station, now a house, built 1858. Gault brick with low pitch, slate roofs. Plan of single storey office or police station on the front with a two storey courtroom at rear. Office has chanelled rustication to the quoins, walls and voussoirs of the window arches. Low pitch roof with a parapet. Three round headed bays to the front wall, with a band at impost height. Each bay has a recessed fixed light window with a pivot casement. The courtroom at the rear is of a similar brick, but without the rustication, and has a hipped low pitch slate roof. Two storeys with pilaster strips at the corners and between the two bays of the side elevations. Each bay has round headed arches to two fixed light windows with pivot casements. The main entries are in flanking porches to the front of the slightly projecting courtroom.

Cambridgeshire Connection: News Report

Listing NGR: TL5470960366

External Links

• Wikidata Q26420033

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