Millwall Fire Station

WEST FERRY ROAD E14 1. 4431 TQ 3878 31/906 Millwall Fire Station TQ 3778 30/906 II GV

1. Fire station. 1904-5. Designed by the Fire Brigade section of the London County Council Architects' Department. Painted stone to groundfloor; brick above. Slate mansard roof. 3 storeys plus roof storey. 7 bays. Entrance, square headed, to third bay from left. 2 Appliance Room entrances, square headed, to right, with replacement metal doors. 3 square headed sashed windows to ground floor, now with plate glass windows. Cornice above ground floor. Upper floors treated symmetrically with giant pilasters rising through first and second floors, the centre pair more widely spaced than the others and the centre bay surmounted by scrolly open pediment in brick. Segmental headed paired sashed windows to first floor, except to centre bay, which has triplet of square headed windows surmounted by segmental pediment and prominent central keystone. Square headed paired windows to second floor. Square headed dormer windows with segmental pediments, except to the centre window which has triangular pediment in brick. Sashes; glazing bars, except to ground floor. Brick dentil cornice above second floor. Tall slab chimneys. Return to right with 3 circular windows, one set in single storeyed rear block which has scalloped parapet.

Listing NGR: TQ3801078358