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Latitude: 50.815 / 50°48'54"N
Longitude: -0.1116 / 0°6'41"W
OS Eastings: 533130
OS Northings: 103421
OS Grid: TQ331034
Mapcode National: GBR KQH.W1J
Mapcode Global: FRA B6NY.8C3
Plus Code: 9C2XRV8Q+29
Entry Name: Old Reading Room
Listing Date: 13 October 1952
Last Amended: 26 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1380995
English Heritage Legacy ID: 481338
ID on this website: 101380995
Location: Black Rock, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN2
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Rottingdean Coastal
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Brighton St George with St Anne and St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ3303SW
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13/10/52
BRIGHTON
THE ESPLANADE, Kemp Town
(South side)
Old Reading Room
(Formerly Listed as:
THE ESPLANADE, KEMP TOWN
Building below Tunnel Entrance formerly the Old Reading Room)
GV
II
Reading room, adapted for committee meetings. 1835. Designed
by William Kendall, the architect who laid out Madeira Drive
and Esplanade as well as Esplanade Cottages and The Temple
(qv). Stucco.
5-bay range. Subordered, round-arched tunnel entrance is
framed by rusticated piers and panelled blocks; architraves to
opening; chamfered jambs; spandrel panels recessed. This
opening, which goes under the roadway to emerge between
Esplanade Cottages on the other side, is set in the centre of
a 5-bay pilastrade of the Tuscan order; continuous entablature
with dentil cornice above. Each of the side bays is subordered
by a pair of smaller Tuscan pilasters supporting an
entablature; within each side bay is a round-arched opening,
now blocked, with architraves and projecting sills; plain dado
below.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms part of a group with the Tunnel entrance, Esplanade
Cottages and The Temple (qv).
Kemp Town constitutes a most important group and consists of
Arundel Terrace, Chichester Terrace, Lewes Crescent, Sussex
Square and related buildings.
Forms part of a group with Esplanade Cottages, Tunnel entrance
and The Temple (qv).
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 81).
Listing NGR: TQ3313003421
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