Lauriston Fire Station, Photos, Edinburgh, Architect, Building, Date, History
Fire Station Edinburgh : Architecture
Arts & Crafts building, Scotland, UK
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Lauriston Fire Station
Headquarters of Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service
Edinburgh Fire Station building
Address: Museum of Fire, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DE
building photos © Adrian Welch, Sep 2006
Address: Lauriston Place, south-central Edinburgh
Architect: Robert Morham
Date of completion: 1897/98-1901
Listed: Category A
Current use: HQ & Museum for Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade
Style: Queen Anne
Lauriston Place Fire Station
The fire station predates the College of Art to the north, which follows on from the fire station’s red sandstone and green slates. The building is constructed of Locharbriggs red sandstone (from the Scottish Borders) ashlar.
The base storey is granite-faced. The building remained an operational fire station and main control centre until its replacement at Tollcross was completed in 1988. A major repair and refurbishment was carried out in 1998-99 by the City of Edinburgh Council Architects.
Edinburgh Fire – Cowgate site
Lauriston Fire Station context – Edinburgh College of Art
Buildings cin the area of Lauriston Fire Station
Quartermile
picture © Adrian Welch
Exchange Place
photograph © John McKenzie
McEwan Hall
photo © Adrian Welch
Dance Base
image : Steffen Schefer
Royal Museum of Scotland
photograph © Adrian Welch
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Lauriston Fire Station Building : page