Listed Building record MDO15423 - Central Fire Station, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth

Fire Station built around 1902 by F W Lacey, Borough Surveyor, in Renaissance style. The building has walls of red brick and ashlar with plain tile roof. Striking features of the exterior include a turret with cupola and weather vane. The interior has glazed tiles, including a frieze depicting firemen in action. Now an entertainment venue.

Fire Station, C1902. By F W Lacey (Borough Surveyor). Red brick and ashlar; plain tile roof. 3 storeys with attic; 6-bay asymmetrical facade. Free Renaissance style. Ground floor; ashlar; each bay with a flat-headed entrance between polygonal stone piers; bay - 3 pedestrian doorway flanked by flambeau lights with two folding engine doorways to either side and gated through-way to rear yard to right-band bay. 1st floor: pairs of round-arched windows between polygonal piers of banded brick and ashlar; narrow central bay has single window. 2nd floor: square-headed windows fronted balustrade; narrow central bay has canted oriel window rising as turret with cupola surmounted by small, domed, lantern on colonettes with tall finial and weather-vane, both cupola and lantern roofed in bright green patterned tiles; 2 left- hand bays under gable with frieze over 2nd-floor windows, oculus, and coat-of-arms in apex. Corniced stack behind turret and one at left end, both in front roof slope. Rear: glass canopies on iron trusses project in front of portals. Interior: glazed tiles and bricks to walls; bays 1 and 2 have frieze depicting firemen in action. A richly detailed building. (1)

The fire station is now a night club.

<1> DOE (HHR), 27 Feb 76, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth 1976, 768 (Scheduling record). SWX3488.

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF087358 (Index). SDO14738.

CENTRAL FIRE STATION, HOLDENHURST ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 545111 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 27 2023 8:10AM