Central Fire Station

1. HOLDENHURST ROAD (South-east side) SZ 0991 Central Fire Station

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Fire Station, C1902. By F W Lacey (Borough Surveyor). Red brick and ashlar; plain tile roof. 3 storeys with attic; 6-bay asymmetrical facade. Free Renaissance style. Ground floor; ashlar; each bay with a flat-headed entrance between polygonal stone piers; bay - 3 pedestrian doorway flanked by flambeau lights with two folding engine doorways to either side and gated through-way to rear yard to right-band bay. 1st floor: pairs of round-arched windows between polygonal piers of banded brick and ashlar; narrow central bay has single window. 2nd floor: square-headed windows fronted balustrade; narrow central bay has canted oriel window rising as turret with cupola surmounted by small, domed, lantern on colonettes with tall finial and weather-vane, both cupola and lantern roofed in bright green patterned tiles; 2 left- hand bays under gable with frieze over 2nd-floor windows, oculus, and coat-of-arms in apex. Corniced stack behind turret and one at left end, both in front roof slope. Rear: glass canopies on iron trusses project in front of portals. Interior: glazed tiles and bricks to walls; bays 1 and 2 have frieze depicting firemen in action. A richly detailed building.

Listing NGR: SZ0963091504