Seaside Shelter and railings, east side of Grand Parade, north of Jubilee Clock Tower

Seaside shelter built between 1899 and 1906 as part of Lord Scarborough’s development of the foreshore, with earlier cast-iron railings of 1875-1877.

MATERIALS: a timber shelter with half-glazed end panels, a tiled roof and cast-iron guttering. The shelter is enclosed within railings of cast-iron upright posts and tubular metal rails.

PLAN: rectangular in plan.

EXTERIOR: the single-storey, three-bay, timber shelter sits on a terrace above a purposely constructed extension to the sea wall. The three bays are separated by timber pilasters supporting heavy wooden, moulded, cross-bow shaped brackets with chamfered and stopped detailing. The brackets support deeply overhanging eaves, tongue and groove timber soffits and the hipped, tiled roof. Pierced timber fascia boards add decorative detailing. The railings run from approximately 5m north of the shelter and continue approximately 100m south, around the corner of Grand Parade and Tower Esplanade.

INTERIOR: the interior of the open-sided shelter has back-to-back, slatted wooden seating divided by a timber panelled screen running along the axis of the shelter. There are additional screens across the width of the shelter, between the timber pilasters, subdividing the seating into three separate bays on each side, with seating around three sides of each bay. The screens were originally glazed and the glazing bars remain but the glass has been replaced with timber panels. The slatted seating is supported on heavy, angled wooden brackets with detailing similar to that of the roof brackets. The ceiling is of tongue and groove, timber panelling.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 March 2021 to correct the name