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| Central Fire Station, Barrow-in-Furness | ||
| Central Fire Station | ||
| locality:- | Barrow-in-Furness | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | fire station (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | SD195693 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1969 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD16 | |
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Built 1911. |
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 BMO65.jpg (taken 30.8.2006) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Central Fire Station |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CENTRAL FIRE STATION / / ABBEY ROAD / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388383 / SD1952469294" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Fire station. Dated 1911. By Borough Surveyors under Arthur Race. Red brick with buff terracotta dressings, slate roofs. Engine house of 1 storey and attic, 1:4:1 bays with 3-storey tower to rear left. Engine house: 4 segmentally-arched vehicle entrances with banded piers and large consoles on raised keystones; enriched modillioned cornice breaks forward at the piers which continue as parapet dies. Hipped roof with skylights and decorative octagonal ridge vents. Slightly recessed end bay on left rises 2 storeys and has banded corner pilasters and part-glazed panelled door in eared architrave with keystone: corniced panel over reads 'ERECTED A.D. 1911'. Terracotta band and keyed oculus beneath open segmental pediment with cartouche in tympanum. Behind bay 1 the square tower rises another storey and has banded corner pilasters and an architraved doorway with balcony to each side. Modillioned cornice beneath parapet with corner dies; domed cupola with finial. Bay 6 as bay 1 but the doorway is now a window and plaque reads 'Central Fire Station'; the pediment retains original obelisks." "INTERIOR: engine house lined with glazed brick: recreation room above has arched ceiling. Opened 12.12.1912 having cost "6,000. Terracotta by Burmantofts of Leeds. Well-preserved example of the first generation of fire station built specifically for motorised appliances." |
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