Former Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1995. House.

Former Fire Station

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1995
Type
House
Address
Former Fire Station, Barry
OS grid reference
ST 122 683
Coordinates
51.40723, -3.26322
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former fire station is a three-storey building constructed of yellow brick, featuring red brick string courses and arches, along with some stone dressings and sills. It has a hipped slate roof. The façade is divided into three bays, each containing two windows, separated by pilaster strips. The top floor features horned sash windows with square heads supported by stone lintels, while the first floor has horned sash windows with red brick arches. On the ground floor, there are three broad segmental red brick arches with stone springers and keystones. The left archway includes an entrance door with glazing above and to the right, while the other arches were originally vehicular entrances but are now glazed.

At the rear, there is an elaborate square practice and look-out tower made of yellow brick, accented with some red brick banding and stone dressings. This tower has two windows on each face, also articulated by pilaster strips. It features a lead pavilion roof with a railed look-out platform. The top stage of the tower has two oculi on each face, positioned between cornices. The tower consists of four stages with louvred openings, and there is an iron fire escape on the west side.

Local climate

Former Fire Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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