Old Fire Station

Old Fire Station, 15, George Street, Lancaster, LA1 1AG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194990
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: Old Fire Station
Statutory Address:: Old Fire Station, 15, George Street, Lancaster, LA1 1AG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194990
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: Old Fire Station
Statutory Address 1:: Old Fire Station, 15, George Street, Lancaster, LA1 1AG

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Old Fire Station, 15, George Street, Lancaster, LA1 1AG

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 47897 61493

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 March 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SD4761SE 1685-1/8/119

LANCASTER GEORGE STREET (north side) No 15, Old Fire Station

(Formerly listed as Town Hall Computer Block, GEORGE STREET)

GV II Fire station, now offices. 1908. By Edward Mountford. For Lord Ashton, as part of the scheme for the Town Hall (qv) on Dalton Square. Baroque Revival style. Sandstone ashlar and slate roof with coped gables. Rectangular plan, five bays wide and three bays deep, and one storey plus an attic, with a tower rising behind the fourth bay. Shallow pilasters on the corner carry a cornice with a blocking course which rises into the gables on the sides. The first three bays, originally doorways for the fire engines now blocked and partly glazed, have a flat arch with a triple keystone and a cornice. Above the third bay, in the centre of the facade, the blocking course is pierced by a many-paned lunette with a triple keystone under a coped gable. The right-hand portion of the facade contains a round-headed doorway flanked by slightly taller windows with triple keystones.The right-hand side has a central doorway (now blocked) with a Gibbs surround, flanked by windows with triple keystones and surmounted by a round-headed mezzanine window (now largely blocked). All the original windows have twelve-pane sashes. The left-hand side has, on the first floor, a stone oriel with canted sides. The tower has in each face a many-paned lunette with a triple keystone under a cornice and blocking course. It is capped by a copper-covered dome and an ornate wrought-iron weather cock (now painted) with an urn-shaped body.

Listing NGR: SD4789761493

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Legacy System number:: 383150
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.