The Old Fire Station

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.