Former Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1989. Fire station. 5 related planning applications.
Former Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- low-ember-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1989
- Type
- Fire station
- Address
- Former Fire Station, 306-312, Old Kent Road, SE1 5UE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 783
- Coordinates
- 51.48824, -0.07712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former fire station, built between 1903 and 1904 by the London County Council Architects' Department, is located on the south side of Old Kent Road in Southwark. The building is constructed of red brick with Portland Stone dressings and features a slate mansard roof with dormers. It has an L-shaped plan and stands four storeys high with an attic.
The exterior consists of six bays, with the outer bays framed by pilasters and quoin strips, featuring alternate stone blocks that rise to a simple blocked entablature and a dentilled cornice, which has been partially removed. The ground floor is prominently elevated with stone ashlar and includes four- and five-light stone mullioned and transomed windows to the left of the double entries for fire engines, which are currently blocked up. Above this, there is a moulded cornice leading to a sunk parapet that is topped with iron railings.
The building has flat-roofed dormers and stacks flanking double-gabled central dormers, which have a banded brick and stone facade and four keyed segmental-arched 12-pane sash windows. All windows are 12-pane sashes with segmental brick arches, except for those on the third floor, which have flat arches. The left-hand return to Shorncliffe Road mirrors the six-bay design and includes similar mullioned and transomed windows, along with a triple-keyed segmental-arched blocked architrave for the doorway. The canted end bay is also framed by pilasters and quoin strips, with a similar cornice and flat-roofed dormer.
At the rear, there is a narrow tower featuring segmental-arched openings and a stone ashlar upper stage topped with an open pediment. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former Fire Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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