[1] Balmoral's iconic timber fire station, designed by Atkinson and Conrad, was opened on 15 March 1927.

Each brigade struggled to survive unable to attract a viable subscription base and hampered by inadequate equipment and an unreliable water supply.

The design of the building incorporated a central engine room with a three feet, six inch deep pit and a ramp leading to it from the street.

The external walls and gables were to be sheeted with hardwood weather boards and all floors, except the engine room, were wrought and tongue and groove pine (T and G).

[1] A brick air raid shelter was constructed to the rear of the fire station during World War II.

Most of the shelters surviving today are of cantilever construction as these were purposely designed and located for conversion to public waiting sheds and shade structures after the war.

The site is composed of the main fire station building, a grassed hose drying area, an old bomb shelter and clay base tennis court.

Constructed on concrete foundations and brick piers, the structure has a symmetrical appearance from the street with a simple gable roof extending the length of the building.

This space creates the spine of the building and has direct access to Pashen street via a large automated, panel lift door.

This hard stand area serves not only as the engine driveway into the station but also as a space for a couple of cars to park.

[1] Constructed to the rear of the station building on the eastern side of the site is a brick walled and concrete roofed air raid shelter of the "pill box" type.

Also located at the rear of the site on a higher level than the station building is a clay base tennis court.

The original retaining walls to the court have been replaced by a system of interlocking landscape blocks which have been planted out with strawberry creepers.

Located on the eastern side of the tennis court is a small timber framed and battened shelter shed.

[1] Balmoral Fire Station was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 November 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

The air raid shelter constructed to the rear of the station during World War II demonstrates Australia's involvement in that conflict, and is testimony to the fear of attack and invasion by enemy forces following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and the subsequent sweep of Japanese forces through Asia and into south-east Asia and the Pacific.

The air raid shelter to the rear of the station is rare as one of few surviving structures built in Brisbane during the war for war-time purposes.

The Balmoral Fire Station has aesthetic and architectural significance as a modest, functional civic building, sympathetic to its residential surroundings.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.