Shelter Opposite the Grand Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Promenade shelter.

Shelter Opposite the Grand Hotel

WRENN ID
swift-granite-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1999
Type
Promenade shelter
Address
Shelter Opposite the Grand Hotel, Kings Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 305 040
Coordinates
50.82097, -0.14744
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The shelter opposite the Grand Hotel in Brighton is a promenade shelter built around 1883 to 1887. It is constructed from cast iron and wood, with a metal roof. The structure features six cast-iron columns, each with four brackets attached to their upper parts. The two inner columns are positioned closer together, allowing their brackets to touch and create a round arch, with openwork spandrels.

The shelter is framed with tongue-and-groove panelling up to about three feet high, topped with renewed glazed panels. Inside, there are wooden benches, likely original to the shelter, arranged two on each side facing north and south, along with smaller seats on brackets at either end facing east and west. The underside of the roof is panelled, and the roof itself is hipped with louvred gablets.

Local climate

Shelter Opposite the Grand Hotel receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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