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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
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
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.
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.
+ 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.
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ISSUE 21/09/2021
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