Fire Station

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.