Fire Station
FIRE STATION, 1, CHILTERN STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291524
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- FIRE STATION, 1, CHILTERN STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291524
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRE STATION, 1, CHILTERN STREET W1
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:
- FIRE STATION, 1, CHILTERN STREET W1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28106 81591
Details
TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHILTERN STREET, W1 44/38 11.10.84 No. 1 (Fire Station)
- II
Fire station. Dated 1889, early design by the L.C.C. Architect's Department, in the Vulliamy manner. Red brick with stone dressings; tiled roof. Free Tudor-Gothic style. 3 storey and attic, 3-window wide left hand part with 2-window wide 4-storey and gabled attic part slightly advanced to right. The stone faced ground floor has 3 altered engine doors to left hand part, flanked by gabled buttress-piers; 2 ground floor 4-light mullioned-transomed windows to right hand part, with drip mould over, the left hand window incorporating doorway, articulated by gabled buttress piers with pseudo-crenellated parapet between. 3-light mullioned-transomed windows to upper floors, hipped roof dormers over left hand part, the 3rd floor pair in right hand gable set in ogee arched recess with flanking pinnacled shafts rising from helmeted firemen head corbels, carved date panel and foliage enrichments. South return of 4 irregular bays with elaborated, stepped rib chimney stack against panel traceried gable end and stone oriel to 1st floor by corner. Screen wall to yard returns back to link with 2nd engine house with large gambrel tiled roof with overhanging eaves, the doors framed by brick piers rising to stone ogee domed finials.
Listing NGR: TQ2810681591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209173
- 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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