Description

The folllowing building shall be added:

KELSEY SQUARE TQ 36 NE Beckenham 2/312 Nos 4-7 (consecutive) II

Fire station, now shop and office, and attached cottages. Built 1873 for Beckenham Volunteer Fire Brigade at the expense of Peter Hoare, owner of the Kelsey estate at Beckenham. Red brick with polychromatic details; gabled plain tile roof; brick ridge and end stacks with oversailing courses. Mid Victorian Domestic Revival style. 2 storeys. Front of 2-window range, with central clock tower, polychromatic segmental arches over paired plate-glass sashes and wide ground floor entry. Corner to side elevation articulated by splayed corner with moulded detail and external end stack. Triple-gabled left side wall in similar style, with hipped and gabled bracketed hoods over panelled half-glazed doors. An early example of an architecturally pretentious fire station.

Listing NGR: TQ3722369316

External Links

• Wikidata Q26552490

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