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SK3587NW WEST BAR 784-1/19/747 (South West side) 30/10/87 Nos.101-109 (odd) West Bar Fire Station Museum

GV II

Police, fire and ambulance station, now fire museum. 1897-1900. By J Norton. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs to main ranges and glass roofs to engine sheds. 4 side wall stacks. EXTERIOR: moulded sillbands and eaves band, and coped parapet forming segmental gables with shields to bays 4, 8 and 10. Three and four storeys; 14 bays defined by pilasters. Watch tower in bay 6 between the police station and the fire and ambulance stations. Curved front to corner site. Police station, 5 bays, has 2 round-headed 16 pane sashes with fanlights and rusticated heads with multiple keystones. On either side, single Venetian windows with similar heads, Ionic columns and cornices. To left, a single 16 pane window. Above, five 15-pane sashes and above again, to bay 2, a shouldered segment-headed dormer with a round window. Below, to right, 2 segment-headed 12 pane sashes, flanked to right by a segmental arched carriage opening with keystone and a pair of concave-topped wrought-iron gates. Above it, a bracket lamp. To left, a similar arch with central half-glazed door with glazing bar sidelights and toplights. To left, another segment-headed 12 pane sash. Square watchtower, 4 stages, has a heavy modillion cornice and a leaded square dome topped with an octagonal lantern with swept leaded roof and ball finial. 2 large coped side wall stacks. Upper stages have a single small rectangular window. Ground floor has a segment-headed 12 pane sash with keystone. To right of the tower, in bay 8, a large terracotta coat of arms. On either side, a Venetian window, and to right a single 16 pane sash, then another Venetian window. Above, seven 15 pane sashes. Below, 3 sets of part-glazed folding doors to the engine sheds, with bracket lamps above them. Between the sets of doors, single segment-headed 12 pane sashes with keystones. The final 3 bays, to right, 4 storeys, have a shouldered pedimented gable with a 2-light mullioned window. Upper floors have two 15 pane sashes, those to first and second floors with segmental heads. Below, a 6-panel door with hoodmould, to the Inspector's flat, and to right, a wooden Diocletian window with keystone. INTERIOR: police station has front range with Inspector's office, charge room and search room, all with glazed brick walls. At the rear, cells, 2 of them combined, 2 with original doors. Entrance to narrow L-shaped exercise yard. To rear again, former stabling with setted yard reached by the carriageway. Engine sheds have glazed brick walls and iron trussed glazed roofs. At the right end, former Inspector's flat, with original fireplaces and stair. First floor has dining room, kitchen, reading room and snooker room. Second floor has the mens' rooms and washrooms. Tower has 2 pole-holes and hose drying space. From the second floor, a ladder stair to the lookout position. HISTORICAL NOTE: this building housed both police and fire stations, the men serving as policemen or firemen as required, and also providing an ambulance service. There was accommodation for the Inspector and 24 single men.

Listing NGR: SK3528587756

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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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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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)