Seafront shelter on De La Warr Parade between junctions of Sea Road and Brassey Road
SEAFRONT SHELTER ON DE LA WARR PARADE BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF SEA ROAD AND BRASSEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1413130
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Seafront shelter on De La Warr Parade between junctions of Sea Road and Brassey Road
- Statutory Address:
- SEAFRONT SHELTER ON DE LA WARR PARADE BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF SEA ROAD AND BRASSEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1413130
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Seafront shelter on De La Warr Parade between junctions of Sea Road and Brassey Road
- Location Description:
- Bexhill-on-Sea Seafront, By the Sailing Club, the Marina opposite end of Sea Road, on Eastern Seafront, Bexhill, East Sussex
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEAFRONT SHELTER ON DE LA WARR PARADE BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF SEA ROAD AND BRASSEY 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:
- SEAFRONT SHELTER ON DE LA WARR PARADE BETWEEN JUNCTIONS OF SEA ROAD AND BRASSEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Rother (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bexhill-on-Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ7455807182
Summary
Seafront shelter, 1890s.
Reasons for Designation
A seafront shelter on De La Warr Parade, between the junctions of Sea Road and Brassey Road, is listed for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural: a well crafted and decorative wooden shelter with an unusual ten sided plan;
* Degree of completeness: substantially complete except for subsequent roof re-tiling and glazing in of the side panels;
* Historical: one of the surviving features of the 8th Earl de La Warr's development of Bexhill;
* Group Value: one of a group of four seaside shelters along De La Warr Parade.
History
This building appears on two photographs taken by Francis Frith in 1896. It formed part of the improvements undertaken by the 8th Earl De La Warr during the 1890s which also included the erection of monumental gates across Marine Parade, since demolished and the Kursaal, demolished in 1936. The building is shown on the 1899 six inch map of Sussex. There is a suggestion that it was built as the box office of the Kursaal but in fact the 1896 photographs show that there was a separate nearby box office building and this building was probably purpose-built as a shelter. It is shown in further photographs of 1899 and 1903 with a tiled roof with bands of ornamental tiles and cresting. In a 1927 photograph the structure is called a bandstand.
Details
DATE: built in 1896, the roof re-tiled in the 1930s.
MATERIALS: it is a wooden structure on a concrete plinth with a tiled roof.
PLAN: the plan is an elongated decahedron with entrance on the south or seaward side.
EXTERIOR: the hipped roof has overhanging eaves with a scalloped valance and is supported on scalloped brackets with circular cutouts. The walls have chamfered piers and top panels with curved sides over vertical boards with small trefoil-shaped cutouts. Except for the two central panels on the seaward side, the wall panels have ornamental curved brackets and central piers which were later glazed over, and solid lower panels.
INTERIOR: the interior has a boarded wooden ceiling with carved ribs incorporating two moulded circular pendants. The lower wall panels are fielded.
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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