Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NE WYNDHAM STREET
577-1/47/978 (West side)
02/03/81 Nos.1A AND 2
Old Fire Station
(Formerly Listed as:
WYNDHAM STREET
Old Fire Station)

II

Stable, later fire station. 1865-1866, converted c1900. By the
architect and surveyor I Johnson of Brighton. For Henry Hill.
The plans dated 28 November, 1865; a plaque on the central
gable dates the building to 1866; converted to a fire station
in the late C19 or early C20. Red brick with stone dressings
in 3 colours, white, brown and yellow. Roof obscured by
parapet and gable coping.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 8-window range. High Victorian Gothic
style. Ground floor is treated as an arcade of 7 bays; the
central bay, which serves as the entrance, is wider than the 3
to either side. The arches in the first and 7th bays are the
narrowest. The central arch is segmental, pointed and moulded
in brick; over it is a drip moulding in white stone. The other
arches are pointed, with banded voussoirs in yellow and brown
stone, and jambs of moulded brick; the drip mouldings of these
side arches are also of moulded brick. Arcade springing band
carved into a frieze of conventionalised flower from white
stone. The tympana of the side bays are pierced with
overlights, that of the central arch has the original wood
framing. There is a sill band across the first floor of brick
laid on an angle to approximate a medieval dogtooth moulding;
drip course in brick above. The first floor windows are all
flat arched, with cusped corners and chamfered mullions
approximating a Tudor light. The end bays, which are the
narrowest, have single windows, the windows in the second,
third and fifth bays are coupled to form double lights. The
brick corbel table and parapet above stop at the large gable
over the centre range; in the centre of the gable is a plaque
bearing the date and surrounded by a drip moulding. Just
inside the gable coping of shaped brick and following the line
of the gable is a brick drip moulding. At the kneelers of this
gable are the remnants of brick pinnacles and finials,
octagonal in plan. In the late C19 or early C20 2 canted bays
were added to the first floor above the central arch and the
6th-window range. The former is supported on wood brackets,
the latter has spandrels covered in pebble dash and terminates
in a wood cornice. Both bays have tripartite, flat-arched
windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3192103868

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661239

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)