Leicester Fire Station

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SK 5803-5903 9/10015

LEICESTER LANCASTER PLACE Leicester Fire Station

(Formerly listed under LANCASTER ROAD)

GV II Fire Station.1925-27. Designed by A. E. and T. Sawday.

Steel framed and brick with hipped pantile roof. Front range with garages for eight fire engines, offices and recreational hall, attached rear range with servicing garages and hose drying tower.

Neo-Georgian style front range, two storey, fifteen windows with a nine window centre with slightly projecting five window centre with raised parapet. Central projecting porch with glazed double doors and overlight, in rusticated brick surround with multiple keystones, and above a moulded parapet with metal railings and city coat-of-arms. Either side four sets of glazed fire engine doors, and above a large central window with margin lights and either side four windows with metal frame margin lights. Above again a central window and a raised statue of a wyvern. Set back on either side three window lower wings with metal frame margin lights.

Rear range, linked by side walls is painted with glazed north light steel roofs, has projecting side wings with central open canopy linked to the six stage central hose drying tower. Ground floor has doorway and three upper balconies. The top stage has a balcony on each face and above a clock face, topped with a metal baluster.

Listing NGR: SK5914003368