Description

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4412 TUNNEL AVENUE, SE10

TQ 47NW SP/573 Former East Greenwich
II Fire Station

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Fire Station 1901-2. Designed by the Fire Brigade Section of the London County
Council's Architect's Department under Owen Fleming and C.C. Winmill. The architect
immediately responsible was probably H.F.T. Cooper. Occupies a truncated triangular
site at the junction of Tunnel Avenue and Horn Lane. A building in the Arts and Crafts
manner influenced by Philip Webb and the work of the Housing Section of the L.C.C
Architect's Department. Red brick with some stone dressings and slated roofs.
The building comprises a 5-storey block at the rear of the site with firemen's
accommodation on the upper floors, and the attached single-storey engine house at the
front of the site. The rear block has its end bays angled forward. On its front,
between the angled end bays, are balconies with cast iron railings on the four upper
floors. The top floor of this centre section has an irregular, stone-coped parapet
of picturesque outline. The outer bays have at this level slated mansard roofs with
a prominent bell-cast and deep, bracketed eaves. There are tall brick chimney stacks
with stone caps. The ground floors of the side elevations are stone-faced. The
stonework is extended forward, forming the sides of the triangle, to embrace the
engine house, which has a hipped, slated mansard roof with a large dormerat the
front. Windows mainly square headed casements; small panes, glazing bars.

Listing NGR: TQ4013478345

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080528

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)