London Road Fire Station (Manchester)

Infobox Historic building


caption= London Road Fire Station
name= London Road Fire Station
location_town= Manchester
location_country= United Kingdom
architect= Messrs. Woodhouse, Willoughby & Langham (Manchester)
client= Manchester City Council
engineer=
construction_start_date= 1904
completion_date= 27 September 1906
date_demolished=
cost= £142 000
structural_system=
style= Pseudo-classical
size=

London Road Fire Station is a former fire station, police station and coroner's court, in Manchester, England. Designed and built between 1904 - 1906 by Woodhouse, Willoughby & Langham at a cost of £142 000. [cite book | last = Bonner | first = Robert F. | title = Manchester Fire Brigade | year = 1988 | ublisher = Archive Publications, Manchester | pages = 127 pages |id = ISBN 0948946296] Until 1974 and the formation of the Greater Manchester Fire Service, it was the headquarters of the Manchester Fire Brigade.

Built of red brick and terracotta by Burmantofts it is now a Grade II* listed building [ [http://www.manchester.gov.uk/planning/heritage/listed/streets3.htm Manchester City Council - listed buildings] ] in the Whitworth Street conservation area. Since 2001 the building has been listed as “at risk” by English Heritage. In February 2006 a private company called Argent, developers of nearby Piccadilly, published plans to transform the convert|100000|sqft|m2|abbr=on of usable space in the building into a music and arts venue. There would be a 100-bed hotel and a mix of other uses each taking up about 5-10,000 sq ft: recording studios, private club, music academy and archive. The city council has since backed the plans. The building's owner, hotelier Alex Langsam, has proposed to revamp the landmark to include an hotel, offices for his company and a fire station museum. A stand off, almost certainly ending in a compulsory purchase order, now seems likely.

ee also

*Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester

References

*"Pevsner Architectural Guides - Manchester", Clare Hartwell, 2001, ISBN 0-300-09666-6

External links

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