340, Lewisham High Street

This building, located at 340 Lewisham High Street, is a fire station constructed in 1898 for the London County Council in the Queen Anne/Arts and Crafts style. It also includes tied housing for firemen and stabling for horses, though it has since been converted into a mix of residential and office spaces, with the ground floor front adapted as a nursery school.

The exterior features red brick with yellow brick bands and stone dressings, topped by a hipped tiled roof with a deep wooden modillion cornice and tall brick chimneystacks. The front range facing Lewisham High Street is four storeys high and consists of four bays. It has a hipped tiled roof with central and end brick stacks, blank round-headed arched panels, and a deep modillion cornice. The upper two floors contain paired 12-pane sash windows, while the first floor has a tripartite arrangement of a central 16-pane sash flanked by four-pane sashes. The ground floor showcases stone pilasters and four round-headed arches with keystones and a plinth; the outer arches contain original small pane windows, while the inner arches, which originally had entrances for fire engines, were converted into windows in the late 20th century.

The left side elevation features two narrow sashes on the top floors and four sashes on the first floor. At the rear, there is a conical practice tower with round-headed lancet windows and twelve windows divided by stone columns on the top storey, which is capped by a conical tiled roof with a metal finial and decorative weathervane. The rear range, which served as tied housing for firemen, is connected to the front by cast iron walkways. It is also four storeys tall but has a flat roof with a series of brick chimneystacks and cast iron balustrading. The two bays on the left project, while the recessed bays on the right have cast iron balconies on three floors.

This fire station is notable for being one of the last in the area to incorporate tied housing for firemen and their families, as well as stabling for horses.