Central Fire Station
CENTRAL FIRE STATION, HOLDENHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232839
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Central Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL FIRE STATION, HOLDENHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232839
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Central Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL FIRE STATION, HOLDENHURST 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, HOLDENHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 09630 91504
Details
1. HOLDENHURST ROAD (South-east side) SZ 0991 Central Fire Station
20/188
II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101924
- 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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