340, LEWISHAM HIGH STREET
340, LEWISHAM HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390058
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 340, LEWISHAM HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 340, LEWISHAM HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390058
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 340, LEWISHAM HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 340, LEWISHAM HIGH 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:
- 340, LEWISHAM HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lewisham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 38007 74897
Details
779/0/10125 LEWISHAM HIGH STREET
07-MAY-02 340
II
Fire station , also incorporating tied housing for firemen and stabling for horses, later converted to part residential, part offices and ground floor front part adapted as nursery school. Built in 1898 for LCC in Queen Anne/ Arts and Crafts style.
EXTERIOR: Built of red brick with yellow brick bands and stone dressings, hipped tiled roof with deep wooden modillion cornice and tall brick chimneystacks. Comprises two linked buildings and 90 foot practice tower. Front range to Lewisham High Street is of four storeys: four bays. Hipped tiled roof with central and end brick stacks with blank round-headed arched panels and deep modillion cornice. Two upper floors have paired 12-pane sashes, the first floor has a tripartite arrangement of central 16-pane sashes flanked by four-pane sashes and the ground floor has stone pilasters, four round-headed arches with keystones and plinth. The two outer arches have original small pane windows. The two inner ones originally had entrances for fire engines but these were converted into windows in the later C20, identical to the outer arches. Left side elevation has two narrow sashes to the two top floors and four sashes to the first floor. Conical practice tower to rear with round-headed lancet windows and twelve windows divided by stone columns to top storey below conical tiled roof which has a metal finial and decorative weathervane. Rear range, tied housing for firemen, is linked to front by cast iron walkways. It is also of four storeys but has a flat roof with a series of brick chimneystacks and cast iron balustrading. The two bays to the left project. The recessed bays to the right have cast iron balconies on three floors
HISTORY: Among the three last fire stations in the area to incorporate tied housing for firemen and their families as well as provision for stabling of horses.
["Buildings of England. London 2: South" p417.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489010
- 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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