The Fire Station

The Fire Station, located on Rose Road in Harborne, is a fire station dating from 1907. It was originally listed under Station Road. The building is constructed of red brick with stone ashlar detailing, featuring gabled and hipped plain tile roofs and red brick end and ridge stacks with stone capping. The architectural style is a combination of Baroque for the fire station tower and offices, and Vernacular Revival for the offices.

The main fire station building is three storeys high and four bays wide, with a six-window range on the first floor. It has stone-mullioned two-light windows on the upper floors, and single-light windows on the ground floor. Stone cill bands and an egg-and-dart string course connect with the keystones of the ground-floor entrances. A bust of a fireman is set within a Baroque cartouche at the centre. The entrance bays flank the centre, slightly projecting, with pedimented doorways and original sliding doors set within rusticated semi-circular arches. These arches have cartouches in their keys, scrolled pilasters framing first-floor four-light windows, and lunettes with aprons that rise to meet open pediments with swags on the tympanae. A canted two-storey bay is located to the left, featuring similar fenestration. The offices to the left are two storeys high, with a four-window range and roughcast on the first floor. A semi-circular arched doorway is present, alongside a slightly projecting bay with a gablet and a gabled bay with a canted two-storey bay window. Casement windows are used, with transoms on the ground floor. The tower has swept coping to the parapet and open pediments over the top-floor semi-circular arched windows, featuring stone voussoirs.

The interior was noted to have glazed brick walls, a draining floor, and half-glazed doors leading to the fire station. The fire station is considered a fine example of Edwardian architecture, reflecting the influence of the contemporary work of the London County Council.