Central Fire Station
CENTRAL FIRE STATION, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197911
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Central Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL FIRE STATION, ABBEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197911
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Central Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL FIRE STATION, ABBEY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL FIRE STATION, ABBEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 19524 69294
Details
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SD1969SE ABBEY ROAD 708-1/12/14 Central Fire Station 28/05/91
II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388383
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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