Pontoon Constabulary Barrack

The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey police station, extant 1838, on a symmetrical plan.

The saved account records: Renovated, 2001, to accommodate continued occasional use.

The saved account records: Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stacks including rendered buttressed "wallhead" chimney stack (west) having stringcourses below stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes.

The saved account records: Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site with boundary wall to perimeter having rubble limestone coping.

Pontoon Constabulary Barrack matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A police station representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of Pontoon with the architectural value of the composition confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a "sparrow pecked" doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship in a silver-grey limestone; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the very slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a feint graduated visual impression with those openings originally showing elegant tripartite glazing patterns. Having been… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.