Former Police Station: Great Ayton

LISTING TEXT - Police station. Early C20. Coursed squared tooled sandstone with ashlar dressings. Graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone features. Neo-vernacular style in keeping with local traditions of building. 2 storeys, 3 bays, slightly irregular. At either end a studded plank door, with long hinges, in hollow-chamfered alternating block surround with lobed lintel. Arms of King Edward VII above north door. Wood mullioned 3 and 4-light windows, those on ground floor transomed; and small window left of south door. Shaped wood eaves brackets. Gable copings and kneelers; corniced stacks at centre and ends. Listing NGR: NZ5574610816

Reference           Building News 26 December 1902 page 924 - contracts