Former Brentford Fire Station

The Former Brentford Fire Station, built in 1897 by T H Nowell Parr for Brentford District Council, is now used as an office. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with terracotta dressings and features an imitation Welsh slate roof adorned with crested terracotta ridge tiles. It stands two storeys high, with a three-storey bay at the rear and three bays below paired gables.

Architectural details include a chamfered plinth, moulded cornices and strings, and moulded buttresses with decorative finials at the angles, rising from the ground floor impost level and at the gables, which are decorated with tiles. The openings have late 20th-century glazing with glazing bars and are set within quoined round arches. The two ground floor engine entrances are framed by pilaster jambs with fluted capitals, while the three windows above have quoined jambs. The outer windows are linked to the entrances below by broad, swept corbels. A foundation stone is positioned between the entrances, along with a plaque that reads 'Fire Station' and displays the District's coat of arms.

On the right return, there is a truncated lateral stack rising above a three-light mullioned and transomed window with a segmental pediment. To the right, there is a window and door with four sashes above and another window in the taller rear bay. The parapet features moulded strings. The left return shows that the taller rear bay has a full-height round-arched window with a keyed archivolt, a round-arched doorway to its right, and two first-floor sashes, along with two truncated stacks breaking the parapet.

At the rear, a central corbelled lateral stack (truncated) is flanked by sashes, which are segmental-arched on both the ground and first floors. Inside, the building has late 20th-century partitioning and a mezzanine floor. At the top of the rear left bay, which served as the escape and hose tower, there are twelve rings in the ceiling from which hoses would have been hung.