Fire Station
FIRE STATION, 139 AND 141, TOOLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385970
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- FIRE STATION, 139 AND 141, TOOLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385970
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRE STATION, 139 AND 141, TOOLEY STREET
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, 139 AND 141, TOOLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33265 80094
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3380 TOOLEY STREET 636-1/2/780 (North East side) Nos.139 AND 141 Fire Station
II
Fire station. After 1877. By Alfred Mott of the Metropolitan Board of Works Architects' Department. Black brick in English bond to plinth; red brick in English bond above; sandstone and terracotta dressings. Roofs of tile. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. 8-window range. Left return partly obscured by signage, of slightly later date, stepping up to 5 storeys. All 1st- and 2nd-floor windows are paired and segmental-arched, except for left pair on 2nd floor, which are flat-arched. The ranges formed by the outer pairs of windows terminate in a gable dormer, that on the left capping a fully projecting bay, with a pointed-arched recess grouping together 2nd-floor and attic windows; that on the right an implied bay only, a ground-floor rectangular bay furnishing the only projection at this point. Pair of attic windows between the end "bays" finish as hipped dormers; corbel table to eaves. Original cart entrances through a pair of segmental-arched openings, the spandrels of which decorated with terracotta blocks and bearing a fascia which once bore an inscription. Ghost of inscription identifies the building as a Fire Station. Triple windows to either side. High stacks, rebuilt, to right of gabled bay, to the right of 6th bay and at right party wall. INTERIOR: not inspected. A good example of the second stage of London Fire Station design following the establishment of the municipal fire brigade in 1866.
Listing NGR: TQ3326580094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471390
- 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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