Tram shelter and public toilets
Tram shelter and public toilets, Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1GY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380683
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Tram shelter and public toilets
- Statutory Address:
- Tram shelter and public toilets, Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1GY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380683
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Tram shelter and public toilets
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tram shelter and public toilets, Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1GY
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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:
- Tram shelter and public toilets, Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1GY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31282 04037
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/03/2019
TQ3104SW
577-1/64/643
BRIGHTON
OLD STEINE
Tram shelter and public toilets
21/10/93
II
A former tram shelter and public toilets, designed around 1936 by the Borough Engineer, David Edwards, and later converted to a cafe. It is constructed of reinforced concrete or brick and Brizolit walls, with a flat roof, and glazing bars of steel. The shelter is single-storey, and formerly had a deep substructure holding conveniences, which has since been partially demolished. The shelter has a rectangular plan with apsidal ends, and is designed in the International Style. The roof projects far beyond the walls to form a sheltered area around the front of the structure, and near the centre, two sections of the wall project to form a recess with a pair of former entrances (blocked up), which accommodated access to the former toilets. The roof steps out over this centre section.
The shelter is now (2019), in use as a café, with its entrance on the opposite (east) side, and a patio over the former convenience ventilators. All openings are flat arched, and the main entrances (blocked up) were formerly located within the apsidal ends, just before the curving sections of wall, and opened onto a curved stair of two stages which led down to the conveniences themselves (stairs at north end removed and conveniences blocked up, those at south end now serve only customer toilets and the kitchen). The curved walls consist of a low parapet topped by a glass wall with glazing bars of steel. The windows themselves have projecting sills.
Listing NGR: TQ3128204037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Green, A H J, Sussex Industrial History- More on the Corporation Tram and Bus Shelters in Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, Vol. 48, (2018), 16-19
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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