Shelter Opposite the End of Western Street 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 End of Western Street
- WRENN ID
- heavy-banister-summer
- 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 End of Western Street, Kings Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 299 041
- Coordinates
- 50.82253, -0.15639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is a promenade shelter located opposite the end of Western Street in Brighton, built around 1883 to 1887. It is constructed from metal and wood, featuring a roof made of copper. The shelter is supported by six moulded metal columns, each with four brackets attached to their upper parts. The two inner columns are positioned closer together, allowing their brackets to touch and form a round arch, with openwork spandrels on the brackets.
The shelter is framed with tongue-and-groove panelling up to about one metre high, topped with renewed glazed panels. Inside, there are wooden benches, likely original to the shelter, positioned between the columns, with two benches on each side facing north and south. Additionally, there are small benches on brackets at either end, facing east and west. The underside of the roof is panelled, and the roof itself is half-hipped.
Local climate
Shelter Opposite the End of Western Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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