Nationwide Anglia Building Society

A fire station, later a bank and now a building society with accommodation above, was constructed around 1873. Designed by G.J. Vulliamy as head of the Metropolitan Board of Works' Architects' Department, it is built of red brick with stone and terracotta dressings, and has a tiled gabled roof with stone bracketed eaves cornices. The style is Venetian Gothic. The exterior is three storeys high, with an irregular three-to-five-storey return to Holly Hill. The fenestration is also irregular. A three-stage rectangular clock tower rises from the first floor on the left-hand return. The Heath Street facade has a 20th-century stone-faced shop frontage. On the first floor is a five-light arcaded window of attached columns supporting pointed arches; the central light is blind and features a patterned terracotta plaque, with a stone sill string. Arch heads break into an enriched stone and terracotta band at second-floor level, inscribed "MBW AD 1873". A half-hipped gable incorporates a two-light second-floor window in a pointed arch recess with an enriched tympanum and apron. The clock tower has a dentil cornice at roof level and a narrow opening on each facade, each featuring a clock face with a continuous projecting modillion cornice above. The return elevation has a gabled end bay with a cornice at the third-floor level, predominantly featuring paired sashes. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the tower served as a water tower, one of the first buildings for London's new horse-drawn fire brigade to include one, and it originally also had a steeple. The fire station closed in 1915 when a new one opened in Lancaster Grove.