Description

SU 5832 NEW ALRESFORD BROAD STREET
(East Side)

13/57 No 54 (Fire station
including gates,
gate piers and rail-
ings)

II

Small rectangular building, designed as a fire station. 1881. Brick, some flint,
½-hipped tile roof. W Front of red brickwork in Flemish bond, with a deep eaves
fascia with a band of curved dentils, side pilasters with cap and base, wide
opening with a boarded double door.Above the doorway is a recessed panel with
chamfered edges and cambered top with a keystone, containing a stone plaque,
incised:- Erected by the Bailiff and Burgesses of New Alresford AD 1881. The
side walls contain flint and brick rubble, with brick quoins, base, and dentilled
eaves fascia. A low wall links the buildings to a double gateway, flanked by 2
cast-iron piers, panelled and with moulded caps, the wrought-iron gates and rails
being later. The structure has later non-conforming additions on the north and east
sides.

Listing NGR: SU5882132916

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26387595

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)