The Old Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1992. Fire station, cafe. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- dim-vault-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1992
- Type
- Fire station, cafe
- Address
- The Old Fire Station, 10, Abbey Street, LE16 9AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 731 873
- Coordinates
- 52.47914, -0.92398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Fire Station is a building located on Abbey Street in Market Harborough, constructed in 1903 and extended in 1912 to match the original design by Coales and Johnson for the Market Harborough District Council. A further addition was made to the rear around 1950. The structure is built of brick and ashlar limestone, topped with a plain tile roof. It stands two stories high and consists of four bays, with the first two bays dating from the 1912 extension and the last two from the original 1903 construction.
The facade features green-glazed brick piers on granite bases that support four segmentally-arched vehicle entrances, which have folding, part-glazed double doors. The arches are moulded and set within an ashlar panel, and above the third and fourth bays, the words 'URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL FIRE STATION / 1903' are inscribed. The cornice is interrupted at the center.
On the first floor, there are brick aprons and moulded sills beneath curved, mullioned and transomed four-light windows, which have casements with glazing bars. Chamfered ashlar piers at each end and between the bays rise through a cornice on corbels, forming dies that are linked by curved brickwork parapet panels. The building is now used as a café.
Local climate
The Old Fire Station receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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