Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Tunnel entrance.
Tunnel Entrance Including Embankments
- WRENN ID
- weathered-courtyard-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Tunnel entrance
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRIGHTON
TQ3303SW THE ESPLANADE, Kemp Town 577-1/55/901 (North side) 13/10/52 Tunnel entrance, including embankments (Formerly Listed as: THE ESPLANADE, KEMP TOWN Esplanade Cottages. Tunnel Entrance at Esplanade Cottages)
GV II
Tunnel entrance and adjacent embankment, entered from the Sussex Square Estate gardens. 1828-1830; embankment may be slightly later. Architect HE Kendall, junior. Brick in Flemish bond; embankment made of split flints and stone. Barrel-vaulted and brick lined tunnel leading to old Reading Room, and Esplanade Cottages, The Esplanade, Kemp Town (qv) on the other side of the roadway and facing south. The round-arched mouth is moulded simply in brick set in a gabled surround. This listing applies to the embankments which line the approach to the tunnel. These are battered and slope down away from the tunnel entrance. Forms part of a group with the former Old Reading Room, Esplanade Cottages and The Temple (qv). (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 81G).
Listing NGR: TQ3314103456
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