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Latitude: 50.8221 / 50°49'19"N
Longitude: -0.1549 / 0°9'17"W
OS Eastings: 530058
OS Northings: 104126
OS Grid: TQ300041
Mapcode National: GBR JP3.9NS
Mapcode Global: FRA B6KX.PGQ
Plus Code: 9C2XRRCW+R2
Entry Name: Western Bandstand and Lavatories and Walls and Railings Opposite Bedford Square
Listing Date: 20 August 1971
Last Amended: 26 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1381657
English Heritage Legacy ID: 482020
ID on this website: 101381657
Location: Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN1
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Regency
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 Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SW KING'S ROAD
577-1/38/371 (South side)
20/08/71 Western Bandstand, lavatories, walls
and railings, opposite Bedford
Square
(Formerly Listed as:
KING'S ROAD
Band Stand opposite Bedford Square)
GV II
Bandstand and lavatories. Probably 1883-7. Stone to basement,
cast-iron and wood to bandstand, roof now painted, possibly
lead.
Octagonal basement with banded rustication; 2 pairs of
flat-arched windows in each face except those to east and west
which have flat-arched entrances with eared architraves. The
bandstand proper is loosely oriental in style. It is
surrounded by a balcony cantilevered out over the basement,
with cast-iron railings; 8 cast-iron columns with oriental
capitals carrying round arches decorated with trefoils and
having Brighton's dolphins in the spandrels; a bracket like
the spandrels runs up from each capital to support a canopy
with a fringe of cast-iron openwork; wooden ceiling with
radiating panels; roof of flattened ogee form with a cupola of
ogee profile with latticed openings.
Low wall surrounding the whole building, square in plan with
semicircular apse to the south, surmounted by iron railings.
Listing NGR: TQ3005804126
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