Seaside Shelter and railings, 150 meters south Of Jubilee Clock Tower

Seaside shelter built around 1910 as part of Lord Scarborough’s development of the foreshore, with earlier cast-iron railings of 1875-77.

MATERIALS: a timber shelter, sitting on a brick plinth with half-glazed screens, a tiled roof and plastic guttering. The shelter is framed by railings comprised of cast-iron posts and horizontal tubular metal rails.

PLAN: rectangular in plan.

EXTERIOR: the single-storey, three-bay, timber shelter sits on a brick plinth upon a purposely built terrace above the original sea wall. The three bays are defined by timber pilasters with pairs of half-timber and half-glazed panels between, each pair separated by two angle-arched openings. The glazing is of small multi-paned lights throughout. Wooden brackets with subtle detailing rise from the pilasters on either side of each pair of panels to support the deeply overhanging eaves, tongue and groove timber soffits and the hipped, tiled roof.

INTERIOR: the interior of the open sided shelter has back-to-back, slatted wooden seating divided by a half-timber and half-glazed panelled screen running along the axis of the shelter. There are additional screens across the width of the shelter, subdividing the seating into two separate bays on each side, and one at each end. The side bays have seating around three sides, those on the end have a single run. The slatted seating is supported on wooden supports and the ceiling is of tongue and groove timber panelling.