Thirty Eight Lamp Posts on the Esplanade
THIRTY EIGHT LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381656
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Thirty Eight Lamp Posts on the Esplanade
- Statutory Address:
- THIRTY EIGHT LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381656
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Thirty Eight Lamp Posts on the Esplanade
- Statutory Address 1:
- THIRTY EIGHT LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS ROAD
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:
- THIRTY EIGHT LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS ROAD
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 30021 04164
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ2904SE KING'S ROAD
577-1/37/370 (South side)
Thirty-eight lamp posts on the
Esplanade
GV II
38 street lamps between the western borough boundary and the
Palace Pier (qv). The cast-iron standards date from 1893 and
are so dated on a tablet fixed to the standard by the West
Pier (qv); brackets and lamps were installed in the 1930s in
copper and brass, but were replaced by angled lights in 1980,
and then by fibreglass replicas of the 1930s design in 1982.
Octagonal base narrowing towards the top, the sloping sides
decorated with foliage ornament; then a knop with nailhead
ornament, with a baluster form decorated with acanthus leaves
above; then the column proper whose lower quarter is decorated
with diagonal foliage sprays, the rest ribbed as far as 2
short maintenance arms; above the maintenance arms is a
spreading basket capital. 2 curved brackets, the space between
them filled with openwork ornament and surmounted by the
borough's arms; from the brackets hang 2 octagonal spiked
lanterns. The first 26 street lamps from the west stand on the
north and south sides of the Esplanade alternately; the rest
on the north side only apart from the thirty-second, which is
set back.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3002104164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482019
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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