Lamp Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts
LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS CLIFF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381759
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lamp Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts
- Statutory Address:
- LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS CLIFF
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381759
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lamp Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS CLIFF
- Statutory Address 2:
- TWENTY EIGHT LAMP POSTS, MARINE PARADE
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:
- LAMP POSTS ON THE ESPLANADE, KINGS CLIFF
- Statutory Address:
- TWENTY EIGHT LAMP POSTS, MARINE PARADE
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 31466 03904
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3103NW MARINE PARADE
577-1/46/481 (South side)
Twenty-eight lamp posts
GV II
Includes: Lamp posts on the Esplanade KING'S CLIFF.
28 street lamps between the Aquarium (qv) and Lewes Crescent.
The cast-iron standards date from 1893; 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.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3146603904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482123
- 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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