Tram shelter and public toilets is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1993. Public facility.
Tram shelter and public toilets
- WRENN ID
- waiting-cellar-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1993
- Type
- Public facility
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a former tram shelter and public toilets, designed around 1936 by the Borough Engineer, David Edwards, and later converted into a café. It is made of reinforced concrete or brick with Brizolit walls and features a flat roof with steel glazing bars. The single-storey structure has a rectangular plan with rounded ends and is designed in the International Style. The roof extends significantly beyond the walls, creating a sheltered area at the front. Near the center, two sections of the wall project to form a recess with a pair of former entrances that have been blocked up, which originally provided access to the toilets. The roof steps out over this central section.
As of 2019, the building operates as a café, with its entrance on the east side and a patio over the former toilet ventilators. All openings are flat arched, and the main entrances, which are now blocked, were previously located within the rounded ends, leading to a two-stage curved stair that descended to the toilets. The stairs at the north end have been removed, and the toilets have been blocked up, while the stairs at the south end now serve only customer toilets and the kitchen. The curved walls feature a low parapet topped with a glass wall that has steel glazing bars, and the windows have projecting sills.
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