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Curragh Camp Fire Station — Collins Road West

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Curragh Camp Fire Station — Collins Road West
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Detached two-bay five-storey red brick fire station, dated 1900, on a square plan with single-bay two-storey flat-roofed end bay to right and single-bay six-storey corner (water) turret to north-east on a square plan. Roofs not visible behind red brick parapet wall. Cut-granite chimney stack to turret with horizontal banding. Rusticated cut-granite walls to ground floor. Cut-granite date stone and plaque. Cut-granite stringcourse to first floor. Red brick English bond to remainder. Cut-granite dressings including stringcourses, spouts and moulded coping to parapet wall. Round-headed window openings. Cut-granite sills and sill courses. Red brick dressings with cut-granite keystones. Timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to top floor in round-headed recessed panels. Cut-granite transoms. Timber sash windows. Louvered timber over panels. Segmental-headed door openings. Replacement iron roller shutters. Sited in Curragh Camp complex to centre of complex in square.

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