Western Bandstand and Lavatories and Walls and Railings Opposite Bedford Square
WESTERN BANDSTAND AND LAVATORIES AND WALLS AND RAILINGS OPPOSITE BEDFORD SQUARE, KINGS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381657
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Western Bandstand and Lavatories and Walls and Railings Opposite Bedford Square
- Statutory Address:
- WESTERN BANDSTAND AND LAVATORIES AND WALLS AND RAILINGS OPPOSITE BEDFORD SQUARE, KINGS ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381657
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Western Bandstand and Lavatories and Walls and Railings Opposite Bedford Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTERN BANDSTAND AND LAVATORIES AND WALLS AND RAILINGS OPPOSITE BEDFORD SQUARE, 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:
- WESTERN BANDSTAND AND LAVATORIES AND WALLS AND RAILINGS OPPOSITE BEDFORD SQUARE, 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 30058 04126
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SW KING'S ROAD
577-1/38/371 (South side)
20/08/71 Western Bandstand, lavatories, walls
and railings, opposite Bedford
Square
(Formerly Listed as:
KING'S ROAD
Band Stand opposite Bedford Square)
GV II
Bandstand and lavatories. Probably 1883-7. Stone to basement,
cast-iron and wood to bandstand, roof now painted, possibly
lead.
Octagonal basement with banded rustication; 2 pairs of
flat-arched windows in each face except those to east and west
which have flat-arched entrances with eared architraves. The
bandstand proper is loosely oriental in style. It is
surrounded by a balcony cantilevered out over the basement,
with cast-iron railings; 8 cast-iron columns with oriental
capitals carrying round arches decorated with trefoils and
having Brighton's dolphins in the spandrels; a bracket like
the spandrels runs up from each capital to support a canopy
with a fringe of cast-iron openwork; wooden ceiling with
radiating panels; roof of flattened ogee form with a cupola of
ogee profile with latticed openings.
Low wall surrounding the whole building, square in plan with
semicircular apse to the south, surmounted by iron railings.
Listing NGR: TQ3005804126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482020
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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