Description

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TQ3104SW
577-1/64/643

BRIGHTON
OLD STEINE
Tram shelter and public toilets

21/10/93

II
A former tram shelter and public toilets, designed around 1936 by the Borough Engineer, David Edwards, and later converted to a cafe. It is constructed of reinforced concrete or brick and Brizolit walls, with a flat roof, and glazing bars of steel. The shelter is single-storey, and formerly had a deep substructure holding conveniences, which has since been partially demolished. The shelter has a rectangular plan with apsidal ends, and is designed in the International Style. The roof projects far beyond the walls to form a sheltered area around the front of the structure, and near the centre, two sections of the wall project to form a recess with a pair of former entrances (blocked up), which accommodated access to the former toilets. The roof steps out over this centre section.

The shelter is now (2019), in use as a café, with its entrance on the opposite (east) side, and a patio over the former convenience ventilators. All openings are flat arched, and the main entrances (blocked up) were formerly located within the apsidal ends, just before the curving sections of wall, and opened onto a curved stair of two stages which led down to the conveniences themselves (stairs at north end removed and conveniences blocked up, those at south end now serve only customer toilets and the kitchen). The curved walls consist of a low parapet topped by a glass wall with glazing bars of steel. The windows themselves have projecting sills.

Listing NGR: TQ3128204037

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660863

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)