Marine Court
Marine Court, Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379435
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Marine Court
- Statutory Address:
- Marine Court, Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379435
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Marine Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- Marine Court, Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Marine Court, Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Hastings (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80076 08843
Details
TQ 8008 NW
757/11/10033
HASTINGS
St Leonards on Sea
MARINA
Marine Court
II
Service flats incorporating shops, car park and restaurant. Foundation stone laid 1936, completed 1938, architects Kenneth Dalgleish and Roger K Pullen in a Cunard style consciously designed to be "a building embodying the beautiful curves of a great ship - a vertical liner on land" inspired by seeing the Queen Mary in dock in Scotland. Late C20 refenestation and glazing-in of balconies.
Steel frame construction with vertical lattice framing to resist the wind pressure due to the height and narrowness of the building and its exposed location. External walls are 11 inch brick cavity, flat roofs are reinforced concrete with tiled finish, floors are hollow block and balcony fronts are painted reinforced concrete and the windows which were metal Crittall casements have mainly been replaced in uPVC and aluminium casements and horizontally sliding windows.
Fourteen storeys high, rising to 170 feet from basement to rooftop. The building provided underground car parking, twenty shops at ground floor level, two storey restaurant on the first floor east end and a promenade deck on the thirteenth floor. There are four separate entrances each served by lifts and staircases.
Every self-contained flat above the second floor has a southern aspect, a balcony and a view of the sea. Ground floor has shopfronts, some retaining original black tiling and horizontally-glazed fanlights and four entrances with doors replaced in uPVC and canopy decorated with wave pattern above. The first and second floors form a podium and have 23 windows, now with sliding sashes. Rounded corner to east (former restaurant) has tall casement windows. Upper floors have balconies, many of which have been glazed-in in the later C20. West end also curved with expanse of stock bricks. Rear elevation has concrete balconies divided by four enclosed staircases and there is an external staircase. Interior retains original lifts and metal staircases and some flats retain original built in kitchen and bedroom units.
Listing NGR: TQ8007608843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478820
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 525
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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