67, 68 AND 69, ALBION STREET B1

Nos. 67, 68, and 69 Albion Street is a building that was constructed as the Corporation Fire Station between 1909 and 1910, designed by architect T G Price. This large, asymmetrical L-shaped block is situated on a corner site and features two and three storeys made of thin, machined, hard red bricks with rebated pointing and ashlar dressings. The design reflects Baroque influences, combining Edwardian "Wrenaissance" elements with Birmingham Arts and Crafts motifs.

The building has steeply pitched roofs with stone-coped gable ends and stone eaves cornices. The ridge of the fire station is topped with a small cupola, and there are slightly battered chimney stacks with sharply cut stone cornices. A notable feature of the fire station's corner block is the large stone arcaded openings on the ground floor, which are supported by squat piers and feature boldly modelled arches with triple keys. This arch motif is repeated in the heavy door hood of the two-storey link to the northeast wing, in the crest above the parapet, and in the semi-circular pediment above the revealed centre bay of the otherwise plain end block of the wing.

The fire station has first-floor windows with eased architraves and cambered cornices. The parapet is raised with small gables above the first three bays but stops short where the eaves of the roof extend over the plain fourth bay. The windows in the two-storey link and the three-storey gabled section of the wing, which balances the fire station, also have architraves and cornices with keys. The revealed centre bay beneath the gable is entirely stone-dressed with chequerwork in its rounded head. There is a yard entrance flanked by piers to the southeast, leading to a single-storey gatehouse that is similarly detailed to the main block. This building occupies a prominent corner site.