Former Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1985. Fire station, restaurant. 1 related planning application.
Former Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- deep-soffit-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1985
- Type
- Fire station, restaurant
- Address
- Former Fire Station, Strand Road, L20 4BB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 336 953
- Coordinates
- 53.4507, -3.00009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former fire station, built in 1902, is now a restaurant. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings that have been painted. The building is two stories tall and has nine bays, with a domestic-style block on the left side that features two stories and an attic, comprising three bays. At the rear, there is a tower. The ground floor has a cornice, while the first floor features a sill course, a top frieze, a cornice, and a parapet. Most of the first-floor windows have architraves and friezes, and are sashed with glazing bars. The ground floor includes eight large entrances with folding doors set between Doric antae, along with a small blocked window in the end bay. The domestic block has the first bay projecting forward under a gable with a top segmental pediment. The ground floor features paired segmental-headed windows that are sashed with glazing bars, and the entrance to the right has paired windows on the first floor with a two-light attic window above. There is a flat-topped dormer to the right and two banded stacks. The top stage of the tower has three-light windows, a cornice, and a parapet with segmental-headed panels.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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