Description

SD 62 SE DARWEN BELGRAVE SQUARE

4/3 Pair of former tram shelters
and attached railings enclosing
- centre of square

GV II

Matching pair of tram shelters and public lavatories, dated 1902, now
closed. Ashlar with domed copper-clad roofs. South shelter regular
octagonal, north shelter octagonal but elongated to rear. Single storey,
in free baroque style; moulded stringcourse at impost level, moulded
cornice, balustraded parapet. The angles have square piers at the
lower level and stumpy Ionic colonnettes above, the cornice breaking
out over these in exaggerated form and carrying scrolled consoles to
short pillars with prominent caps and ball finials, between which run
balustrades with ramped ends. The 3 sides to the street all have large
round-headed openings, that on the inner side a door, others windows,
all crossed by the string course above which the heads, as lunettes, have
Gibbs surrounds and decorated extrados. On south side wall of south shelter
is an attached bronze plaque lettered in relief.

Iron railings to north, west and south sides of square appear contemporary
and have knobbed bars with stone piers with moulded cornices at intervals.

Listing NGR: SD6923122134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26328051

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]