Millwall Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1988. Fire station. 4 related planning applications.

Millwall Fire Station

WRENN ID
waning-lead-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1988
Type
Fire station
Address
Millwall Fire Station, West Ferry Road E14
OS grid reference
TQ 380 783
Coordinates
51.48734, -0.01363
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Millwall Fire Station is a fire station built between 1904 and 1905, designed by the Fire Brigade section of the London County Council Architects' Department. The building features painted stone on the ground floor and brick above, topped with a slate mansard roof. It stands three storeys high plus a roof storey and has seven bays. The entrance is square-headed and located in the third bay from the left. To the right, there are two appliance room entrances, also square-headed, which have replacement metal doors.

On the ground floor, there are three square-headed sashed windows, now fitted with plate glass. A cornice runs above the ground floor. The upper floors are symmetrically designed with giant pilasters that rise through the first and second floors. The centre pair of pilasters is spaced wider than the others, and the centre bay features a scrolly open pediment made of brick. The first floor has segmental-headed paired sashed windows, except for the centre bay, which has a triplet of square-headed windows topped with a segmental pediment and a prominent central keystone. The second floor contains square-headed paired windows.

The dormer windows are square-headed with segmental pediments, except for the centre window, which has a triangular pediment in brick. The sashes have glazing bars, except on the ground floor. Above the second floor, there is a brick dentil cornice, and tall slab chimneys rise from the roof. To the right, there is a return with three circular windows, one of which is set in a single-storey rear block that has a scalloped parapet.

Local climate

Millwall 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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