Central Fire Station

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE ABBEY ROAD 708-1/12/14 Central Fire Station 28/05/91

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Fire station. Dated 1911. By Borough Surveyors under Arthur Race. Red brick with buff terracotta dressings, slate roofs. Engine house of 1 storey and attic, 1:4:1 bays with 3-storey tower to rear left. Engine house: 4 segmentally-arched vehicle entrances with banded piers and large consoles on raised keystones; enriched modillioned cornice breaks forward at the piers which continue as parapet dies. Hipped roof with skylights and decorative octagonal ridge vents. Slightly recessed end bay on left rises 2 storeys and has banded corner pilasters and part-glazed panelled door in eared architrave with keystone: corniced panel over reads 'ERECTED A.D. 1911'. Terracotta band and keyed oculus beneath open segmental pediment with cartouche in tympanum. Behind bay 1 the square tower rises another storey and has banded corner pilasters and an architraved doorway with balcony to each side. Modillioned cornice beneath parapet with corner dies; domed cupola with finial. Bay 6 as bay 1 but the doorway is now a window and plaque reads 'Central Fire Station'; the pediment retains original obelisks. INTERIOR: engine house lined with glazed brick: recreation room above has arched ceiling. Opened 12.12.1912 having cost »6,000. Terracotta by Burmantofts of Leeds. Well-preserved example of the first generation of fire station built specifically for motorised appliances.

Listing NGR: SD1952469294