A photograph showing a narrow stone passageway with a large wooden gate on the right and steps leading up to a black door at the rear.A photograph showing a building undergoing renovation with scaffolding covering the upper section and a white single-story extension in the foreground.A photograph showing a construction site with scaffolding and plywood sheets leaning against a brick wall structure, adjacent to a paved alleyway and stone building.A photograph of a historic stone building featuring a turret and slate roof, with scaffolding visible on the left side indicating repair work.
01 APPLICATION DETAILS
Former Police Station, Castletown Registered Building 27 Castletown Conservation Area Application for Full Planning Approval Application for Registered Building Consent Manx National Heritage • Applicant Horncastle Thomas Ltd • Agent
02 DESIGN
02.1 DESCRIPTION
The former police station is a registered building, purpose built at the turn of the twentieth century, now vacant since 2017.The building also lies within a conservation area.
This application seeks approval to remove the modern kitchen/ interview room extension and its associated services, re-pointing the exposed stone wall; widening the rear entrance and providing a new door
02.2 DESCRIPTION • BACKGROUND + NEED
The former police station has undergone alterations throughout its history the most significant being the addition of the kitchen/ interview room in the mid 1980s
The extension has limited architectural value in relation to the original building. The extension, although the quayside elevation is faced in stone, is of poor quality construction, below modern standards and is in poor condition.
This application is one of a series that, if approved, will see works undertaken to remove later additions and modern alterations to the building and rationalising services.
02.3 DESCRIPTION • EXISTING FORM + MATERIALS The former police station is of a distinctive form and materials.
The plan is essentially square with the two public elevations facing onto roads, joined by a circular turret. The cells and access corridor at the rear, formerly an open yard, complete and fill in the square.
A complicated form for a small building, it comprises a turret addressing the corner, curved Dutch gables adjacent or above entrances, tall chimneys and a steeply pitched slated roof over solid limestone walls. The cells are barrell vaulted with a flat roof over.
The 1985 kitchen/ interview room is a flat roofed single storey extension that projects eastwards from the cells at the rear. Set back from the road it is visble from the quayside, although largely obscured. Stone cladding to the quayside elevation references the finish on the original building.
02.4 DESCRIPTION • DESIGN PRINCIPLES
+ NATURE OF PROPOSAL It is proposed to demolish the 1980s single storey rear extension. The resulting space will be included into the courtyard space improving access between the rear of the Police Station, Derby House and the restaurant in Harbour Mews.
01 general quayside view showing yard wall + gate with 1985 extension behind
02 view through yard gate showing 1985 extension (uncoursed limestone wall with black door blank
03 general view looking in the direction of the quayside showeing the existing 1985 extension recently painted and partially demolished
04 general view looking in the direction away from the quayside showeing the existing 1985 extension recently painted, the uncoursed stone wall in partial view to the right of the picture, Derby House (scaffolded) behind
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ISSUE 21/09/2021
241_Castletown Police Station • Castletown • Manx National Heritage horncastle:thomas
