Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1984. Fire station. 28 related planning applications.
Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- plain-brass-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1984
- Type
- Fire station
- Address
- Fire Station, 1, Chiltern Street W1, City of Westminster, W1U 7PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51872, -0.15502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This fire station, built in 1889, is an early design by the London County Council Architect's Department, reflecting the Vulliamy style. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a tiled roof in a free Tudor-Gothic style. The building has three storeys and an attic, with a three-window wide left section and a slightly advanced two-window wide four-storey section with a gabled attic on the right.
The stone-faced ground floor has three altered engine doors on the left, flanked by gabled buttress piers. To the right, there are two four-light mullioned-transomed windows, with a drip mould above. The left window includes a doorway, also articulated by gabled buttress piers, with a pseudo-crenellated parapet between. The upper floors feature three-light mullioned-transomed windows, and there are hipped roof dormers over the left section. The third-floor pair in the right gable is set in an ogee arched recess, flanked by pinnacled shafts that rise from helmeted firemen head corbels, along with a carved date panel and foliage decorations.
The south return has four irregular bays and an elaborated, stepped rib chimney stack against a panel traceried gable end. There is a stone oriel window on the first floor at the corner. A screen wall to the yard connects back to a second engine house, which has a large gambrel tiled roof with overhanging eaves. The doors are framed by brick piers that rise to stone ogee domed finials.
Local climate
Fire Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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