Architecture office Tate Harmer has converted a 100-year-old fire station in Belsize Park, London, into a set of apartments.
Belsize Fire Station was designed and built in the Arts and Crafts style in 1914 by the architect Charles Canning Winmill for London County Council.
Tate Harmer preserved the Grade II*-listed building
The station was operational and used by firefighters and their engines ? originally horse-drawn ? until 2014 when it was closed due to council cuts.
London architects Tate Harmer carefully upgraded the Grade II*-listed building to improve its thermal performance and turned it into 20 homes.
The glazed white brick tiles are original
Original features such as the fireman's poles and the double-height bays where the engines were kept have been preserved and incorporated into the homes. Below street level, former accommodation for the firefighters has been neatly converted into one-bedroom apartments.
The walls and floors have been insulated
Open-plan apartments with individual gardens have been carved out of the ground and first floors. Second-floor apartments with double-height ceilings have been built up into the vaulted roof.

"Creating new homes within a listed fire station is not simple but it's important to retain London's heritage where possible and improving the sustainable credentials of our built landscape," said Tate Harmer partner Rory Harmer.
"The most environmentally-friendly building is the one that already exists."
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