London Road Fire Station (Manchester)
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| London Road Fire Station | |
 London Road Fire Station |
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| Building information | |
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| Town | Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Architect | Messrs. Woodhouse, Willoughby & Langham (Manchester) |
| Client | Manchester City Council |
| Construction start date | 1904 |
| Completion date | 27 September 1906 |
| Cost | £142 000 |
| Style | Pseudo-classical |
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.[1] 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 [2] 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 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m²) 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.
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[edit] References
- ^ Bonner, Robert F. (1988). Manchester Fire Brigade, 127 pages. ISBN 0948946296.
- ^ Manchester City Council - listed buildings
- Pevsner Architectural Guides - Manchester, Clare Hartwell, 2001, ISBN 0-300-09666-6
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