Fire Station

SOUTHWARK

TQ3380 TOOLEY STREET 636-1/2/780 (North East side) Nos.139 AND 141 Fire Station

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Fire station. After 1877. By Alfred Mott of the Metropolitan Board of Works Architects' Department. Black brick in English bond to plinth; red brick in English bond above; sandstone and terracotta dressings. Roofs of tile. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. 8-window range. Left return partly obscured by signage, of slightly later date, stepping up to 5 storeys. All 1st- and 2nd-floor windows are paired and segmental-arched, except for left pair on 2nd floor, which are flat-arched. The ranges formed by the outer pairs of windows terminate in a gable dormer, that on the left capping a fully projecting bay, with a pointed-arched recess grouping together 2nd-floor and attic windows; that on the right an implied bay only, a ground-floor rectangular bay furnishing the only projection at this point. Pair of attic windows between the end "bays" finish as hipped dormers; corbel table to eaves. Original cart entrances through a pair of segmental-arched openings, the spandrels of which decorated with terracotta blocks and bearing a fascia which once bore an inscription. Ghost of inscription identifies the building as a Fire Station. Triple windows to either side. High stacks, rebuilt, to right of gabled bay, to the right of 6th bay and at right party wall. INTERIOR: not inspected. A good example of the second stage of London Fire Station design following the establishment of the municipal fire brigade in 1866.

Listing NGR: TQ3326580094