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:: 12-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS
Statutory Address:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS, THE ESPLANADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380997
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS
Statutory Address 1:: TUNNEL ENTRANCE INCLUDING EMBANKMENTS, THE ESPLANADE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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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.