WEST PYLON

WEST PYLON, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381681
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: WEST PYLON
Statutory Address:: WEST PYLON, LONDON ROAD

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Date:: 2007-07-04
Reference:: IOE01/16684/34
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381681
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: WEST PYLON
Statutory Address 1:: WEST PYLON, LONDON ROAD

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:: WEST PYLON, LONDON 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 Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29159 10610

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ21SE LONDON ROAD 577-1/1/398 (West side) West Pylon

GV II

Pylon, one of 2 erected on either side of the A23 in 1928 to mark the extension of the County Borough of Brighton. By John Leopold Denman. Stone. The pylon is wedge-shaped in plan, with the narrow end pointing inwards, towards the road; the 2 long sides and the outer side are very slightly concave in plan but with flat panels superimposed upon them, and concave-chamfered buttresses at the corners; the narrow end is treated as a tapering engaged column; the long sides carry inscriptions and emblems of Brighton and the County of Sussex, carved in relief; the top of the pylon is set back all round, and fluted.

Listing NGR: TQ2915910610

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 482044
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.