Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments
TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS, THE ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380997
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments
- Statutory Address:
- TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS, THE ESPLANADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380997
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS, THE ESPLANADE
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:
- TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS, THE ESPLANADE
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 33141 03456
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3303SW THE ESPLANADE, Kemp Town
577-1/55/901 (North side)
13/10/52 Tunnel entrance, including
embankments
(Formerly Listed as:
THE ESPLANADE, KEMP TOWN
Esplanade Cottages. Tunnel Entrance
at Esplanade Cottages)
GV II
Tunnel entrance and adjacent embankment, entered from the
Sussex Square Estate gardens. 1828-1830; embankment may be
slightly later. Architect HE Kendall, junior. Brick in Flemish
bond; embankment made of split flints and stone.
Barrel-vaulted and brick lined tunnel leading to old Reading
Room, and Esplanade Cottages, The Esplanade, Kemp Town (qv) on
the other side of the roadway and facing south. The
round-arched mouth is moulded simply in brick set in a gabled
surround.
This listing applies to the embankments which line the
approach to the tunnel. These are battered and slope down away
from the tunnel entrance.
Forms part of a group with the former Old Reading Room,
Esplanade Cottages and The Temple (qv).
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 81G).
Listing NGR: TQ3314103456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 81G
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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