Police House in The Strand

The photograph of Northend  on The Strand as a police house has been taken down from the Friends of The Devon & Cornwall Constabulary Heritage &Learning Resource Facebook page so there's a gap on our May 16th 2015 post about it

Please has anyone a photograph of it around 1871?

Here it is on Google Maps



This old police house is listed on The British Listed Building website as Northend Cottage

"6/283 Northend Cottage
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GV II


Cottage. Early C19. Grey limestone rubble, slate roof, gabled at ends with coped
gables and kneelers; stone lateral stack with yellow brick shaft to left wall of main
block. The scale and Gothic style suggest a lodge but there is no evidence that it
ever served this purpose. It was lived in by a policeman in 1871 and may have been a
purpose built police cottage. Tudor style.
Plan: A small cottage with one principal heated room with a porch on the north side
and a single-storey service room under a lean-to roof on the south side. A stair
rises in the front right corner of the main room. C20 addition to rear left.
Exeterior: Very well-preserved. The I window front elevation has a Gothic gabled
porch with a deeply-chamfered 4-centred doorway with a shield carved over the arch.
The doorway is now blocked and the porch is entered on the left return, the right
return has a stone-framed slit window and the main block has a similar slit window to
the left of the porch. Arched inner doorframe with a 4-centred arched C19 plank and
cover strip front door. The left return (facing the road) has a small canted bay
window to the ground floor with glazing bars and a 2-light first floor C19 casement,
a similar window at the left lights the lean-to. The right return also has a C19
canted bay window, so the principal room is lit from both sides.
Interior: Original joinery survives: fireplace blocked.
The deeds are said to go back to 1870 when the house was purchased by the Powderham
Estate.
An unusual and attractive small roadside house.


Listing NGR: SX9756382207"

The Policeman's Field Allotment and Grazing Pitch in The Strand

This photo from the Powderham archives is on the  Policing Past Community Present Facebook page.


" This photograph, probably dating from the 1860s, showing Starcross Police House (far right of image). Provided by the Earl of Devon, the area in front of the cottage (now a park/car park on the sea front at Starcross) is/was known as 'Policeman's Field'. This was used by the inhabitant of the Police House as an allotment and grazing pitch.

For those who would like to take a look at how the house looks today, follow this Google Street View link to journey along The Strand, starting at the old Police House: http://ow.ly/KWPlZ
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The house is listed on English Heritage as Northend Cottage 
 English Heritage give 1871 as the date when it was a police house