Fire Station, with Flats for Fire Officers Above is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Fire station. 1 related planning application.
Fire Station, with Flats for Fire Officers Above
- WRENN ID
- fossil-doorway-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Erith and Thamesmead MP: Ms Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Fire station
- Address
- Fire Station, with Flats for Fire Officers Above, Eaglesfield Road Se18
- OS grid reference
- TQ 438 770
- Coordinates
- 51.47387, 0.07032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This fire station, built in 1912, features flats for fire officers above. It is a red brick building with three storeys, an attic, and a basement, comprising six bays in a somewhat irregular layout. The high-pitched, gable-ended tiled roof has a lower fringe of shallower pitch that continues around the gable ends, which are tile-hung. There are five large, tile-hung, gabled dormers that are almost touching, with each dormer having a slightly different window arrangement. The building is adorned with tall, rectangular brick chimneys.
The front of the building is varied, with bays one, five, and six featuring shallow, canted, three-window oriel bays that extend through the first and second floors. Below these, bay one has two one-light windows, bay five has a three-light window, and bay six has a four-light window. Bays two and four have three-window canted bays that extend the full height of the building, abutting bay three, which is slightly forward of the main wall plane and features three arcaded recesses through the first and second floors, each containing one window.
On the ground floor, there are two large entrances for fire engines, framed by stone jambs and topped with a tiled hood. These entrances encroach on the inner sides of the canted bays, which are reduced to two windows on the ground floor. There is also one plain door in the second bay from the left. The left basement windows are small and square with cambered relieving arches above, while the right basement windows are lunettes. Most ground floor windows have lintels made of layered tiles and cambered relieving arches, and all are casements with horizontal bars. The building was designed by the ICC Architects' Department, Fire Brigade Branch, including architects Owen Fleming, C.C. Winmill, and W.E. Brooks.
Local climate
Fire Station, with Flats for Fire Officers Above 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 98% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 56 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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