Description

SU 99 49NE GUILDFORD NORTH STREET
(North Side)

5/160 The Old Fire Station

GV II

Former Fire Station, now public conveniences. 1872. Red-brown brick with yellow
brick dressings, glass and hipped slate roofs. On corner site at junction of
Ward Street and North Street with tower on angle. Single storey either side of
two stage tower. Tower under hipped pyramidal roof and weathervane, copper clock
dial on upper stage on each face. Further hipped roof below clock on deep
bracketed eaves and with angle quoins to first floor below. Floral round window
on North Street elevation over rendered cornice, ground floor blocked up. Glass
canopy projects to right of tower with shaped screen wall above. Left hand return
front facing Ward Street:- Cambered-headed openings for fire engines now blocked-
in,except for that to right where doors give access to conveniences. Fixed case-
ments to left, glass roofs above.

GUILDFORD AS IT WAS: MATTHEW ALEXANDER (1978)

Listing NGR: SU9977749627

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26484791

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)