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Seafront shelter on De La Warr Parade between junctions of Sea Road and Brassey Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Bexhill, East Sussex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8378 / 50°50'16"N

Longitude: 0.4778 / 0°28'39"E

OS Eastings: 574558

OS Northings: 107182

OS Grid: TQ745071

Mapcode National: GBR PXD.FLN

Mapcode Global: FRA C6WW.HXR

Plus Code: 9F22RFQH+44

Entry Name: Seafront shelter on De La Warr Parade between junctions of Sea Road and Brassey Road

Listing Date: 15 February 2013

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1413130

Also known as: Shelter No.1, East Parade

ID on this website: 101413130

Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, Rother, East Sussex, TN40

County: East Sussex

District: Rother

Electoral Ward/Division: Sackville

Parish: Bexhill-on-Sea

Built-Up Area: Bexhill

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Bexhill St Barnabas

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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Summary


Seafront shelter, 1890s.

Description


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.

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.

Reasons for Listing


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.


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