Northern block and courtyard walls of Alice Billings House

A firemen's accommodation building constructed in 1905–6 for the West Ham Fire Brigade, probably designed by the Borough Engineer, John G Morley. An extension was added around 1965.

The northern block is a three-storey rectangular structure of yellow stock brick with red brick dressings and pitched slate roofs. It stands separated from a corresponding southern block by a walled former garden and drying area. The building is planned with a pair of two-room flats on each floor, one on either side of a spine corridor and stairwell. A projecting wash house and WC range extends from the north elevation and rises above gable level in two further stages to form a hose drying and practice tower.

The north elevation comprises seven bays, including the three bays of the washroom range. The south elevation facing the courtyard has five bays. Windows are principally one-over-one timber sashes set in openings with arched red brick lintels and concrete sills, though some are later replacements. At the time of survey in September 2016, many windows were boarded up and ground floor windows had metal security bars. The window arches on the north elevation are of high-quality gauged brick, while those on the south elevation are of two courses of cruder brickwork. The central windows on the south elevation are wider, with the first floor opening being square with a concrete lintel. Both elevations have central entrances with red brick arches and jambs; the courtyard entrance retains margin glazing in its timber surround, although the doors are modern replacements. The gable walls are blank. The building originally had four chimneys, though the eastern stack has been removed. Original cast-iron water goods survive.

The hose drying and practice tower features four openings on its north elevation above the arched entrance. The lower three are square with concrete lintels—the second floor opening having later timber glazing—while the uppermost has a brick arch. The tower is topped by a concrete cornice and brick parapet with four piers creating a castellated effect. The north elevation of the tower displays a metal practice ladder, various fixing points, and a projecting hose drying frame of steel girders with metal fittings.

A late-20th-century single-storey extension with a flat roof has been added to the south elevation, incorporating the original western courtyard wall. Its east elevation opens onto a late-20th-century covered walkway with a sloping roof and timber supports, extending between the courtyard entrances of the two blocks.

The interior retains largely intact planning, with each flat accessed via a short passage between the flat and WC/wash house. Entry opens directly into the parlour or kitchen, with a centrally placed door leading through to a bedroom on the courtyard side. Some historic cornices, skirtings, cupboards, window surrounds and hearths survive, though all fireplaces have been removed and doors are mainly replacements. The main spine corridor has plain brick walls, largely overpainted from use as a film set, and features cantilevered concrete stairs with wrought iron balustrades and hand rails. Internal horned timber sash windows in arched openings light the parlours of the eastern flats.

A stretch of high stock brick courtyard wall is attached to the south-east corner of the block and is included in the listing.