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Latitude: 51.4063 / 51°24'22"N
Longitude: -0.0285 / 0°1'42"W
OS Eastings: 537223
OS Northings: 169323
OS Grid: TQ372693
Mapcode National: GBR KC.3J8
Mapcode Global: VHGRF.GX98
Plus Code: 9C3XCX4C+GJ
Entry Name: 4-7, Kelsey Square
Listing Date: 22 February 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1261549
English Heritage Legacy ID: 358648
ID on this website: 101261549
Location: Beckenham, Bromley, London, BR3
County: London
District: Bromley
Electoral Ward/Division: Kelsey and Eden Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bromley
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Beckenham Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
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
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