The Colonnade
THE COLONNADE, MADEIRA DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381699
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Colonnade
- Statutory Address:
- THE COLONNADE, MADEIRA DRIVE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381699
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Colonnade
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COLONNADE, MADEIRA DRIVE
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:
- THE COLONNADE, MADEIRA DRIVE
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 31661 03849
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3103NE MADEIRA DRIVE
577-1/47/412 (North side)
08/12/97 The Colonnade
II
Shopping arcade. 1927-1929. Designed by borough engineer David
Edwards as part of the corporation's expansion of The
Aquarium, Madeira Drive (qv). Artificial stone.
EXTERIOR/PLAN: shops set behind a single storey colonnade of
25 bays, all of identical width except for the first, 5th,
21st and 25th bays which are broader than the rest and project
slightly forward; these broad bays are defined by a Tuscan
distyle-in-antis portico, and their placement serves to accent
the termini of what would otherwise be an uninflected
composition. The rest of the vertical supports are plain
Tuscan columns. There is a continuous entablature with
projecting cornice, and above this a balustrade which encloses
a raised walkway.
This walkway links the roof terrace of the Aquarium with the
Covered Walk, Madeira Drive (qv).
The shop fronts along Madeira Drive are rather plain, most
being framed only by the shallow responds of the Tuscan
colonnade; between the 11th and 14th bays of the colonnade,
however, can be found the public conveniences, the elevation
of which is articulated by Tuscan pilasters flanking a
flat-arched entrance.
Included in this listing is the shelter to the roof; of the
same date as the colonnade, this structure consists of 6 thin,
cast-iron colonnettes supporting a concave metal roof which
abuts the concrete embankment to Marine Parade. According to a
plaque nearby, this shelter stands very nearly on the site of
the original Chain Pier, erected in 1823 and destroyed by a
storm in 1896.
Listing NGR: TQ3166103849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482062
- 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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