Fire Station

This fire station, located at 139 and 141 Tooley Street in Southwark, was built after 1877 by Alfred Mott from the Metropolitan Board of Works Architects' Department. It features a combination of black brick in English bond for the plinth and red brick in English bond above, with sandstone and terracotta dressings. The roofs are tiled and the building is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The structure has three storeys and an attic, with an eight-window range. The left side is partly obscured by later signage and rises to five storeys. The first and second-floor windows are paired and segmental-arched, except for the left pair on the second floor, which are flat-arched. The outer pairs of windows lead to a gable dormer, with the left side capping a fully projecting bay that features a pointed-arched recess grouping together the second-floor and attic windows. The right side has an implied bay, with a rectangular ground-floor bay as the only projection. There are pairs of attic windows between the end "bays" that finish as hipped dormers, and a corbel table at the eaves.

Original cart entrances are through a pair of segmental-arched openings, decorated with terracotta blocks in the spandrels and bearing a fascia that once displayed an inscription identifying the building as a fire station. There are triple windows on either side, and high stacks, which have been rebuilt, are located to the right of the gabled bay, to the right of the sixth bay, and at the right party wall. The interior has not been inspected. This fire station is a notable example of the second stage of London fire station design following the establishment of the municipal fire brigade in 1866.