C O N T E X T 1 3 0 : J U LY 2 0 1 3 25 side heritage seaside ritage Our seaside her Our seaside heritag seaside heritage Our itage Our seaside her seaside heritage Our seaside he three list entries in England, all Grade II, and no listed examples in Scotland orWales.There is a terrace of six listed beach chalets dating from 1912 in Cromer (listed in 2008, with a café designed as part of the complex), built a few years after the installation of new promenades and sea walls by the Cromer Protection Commissioners. Constructed of red brick, a slate overhanging roof, a mock-Tudor gable to each end, a pair of doors and a small window to each, these chalets are directly influenced by the vernacular revivalist style of architecture. Weymouth has listed terraced beach chalets dating from 1923 (the first listed chalets, listed in 1999), originally constructed as a single storey with ornate cast-iron pillars separating each chalet (as they are also often referred to in Lincolnshire).Two rows of terraced beach huts dating from the 1920s in Saltburn (Cleveland and Redcar) are also listed. Unusually they are set to either side of a central Flemish gabled section. The variety in style, detail and colour gives beach huts individual character, often despite similarities in size and form.Timber is the most common material.Many simple shed structures contain a door and shuttered window. There are many in this style along the Sussex coast, often painted white. Multi-coloured, shed-style huts placed high upon stilts, many with a decked area to the front, are set against pine trees inWells-next-the-Sea. French doors and flanking window arrangements beneath a gable with a finial and veranda are more formal features found in Southwold (Suffolk) and Sutton-on-Sea (Lincolnshire). Classic art-deco- and modern-inspired chalets were usually constructed of reinforced concrete or painted render, often of two or more layers. Typical curving ends and liner-style Crittall windows can be seen in Cromer.Wavy concrete overhanging fronts are seen in Bournemouth and Mablethorpe. There are a number of beach huts dating from around 1953 built of reinforced concrete with curved asbestos cement roofing sheets, resulting in a pagoda style roof unique to the Lincolnshire coast. Gables are filled with horizontal feather-edge, dark-stained timber cladding.The reinforced concrete corners have a curved stop chamfer and sides and panels beneath the windows of overlapping concrete tiles.The original fenestration consisted of metal French doors with flanking windows to each side, and a dual aspect in many. Sandilands (Lincolnshire) has an unusual terrace of beach huts designed in the 1960s which have stepped frontages and an interesting roofline interspersed with butterfly roofs and clerestory windows. Conservation issues include continuous maintenance, vandalism (including arson), storms and incremental changes. Five huts were burned down in suspected arson attempts at Mudeford in Dorset in 2009.A number were washed away in a storm in Southwold in 2009. When the worst happens and a hut is washed away or burned down, a replacement requires planning permission. Almost all beach huts and chalets have restrictions, with no permitted development rights. Little by way of change should occur once a hut is built. Some councils impose a specific style on owners for new structures. Others do not. In recent years new chalets have appeared on the Lincolnshire coast built of red or yellow brick, concrete-tiled roofs, plastic cladding and flat-pack sectional catalogue summer rooms, which sit uncomfortably among traditional timber chalets. Security measures give rise to the most common alterations. A plethora of DIY solutions are used to protect glass, or in many cases, replace it altogether. Adding a pull-up deck to form a security shutter when the hut is Pagoda chalets and a new ‘Bathing Beauties’ chalet at Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire Bournemouth Borough Council’s oldest municipal beach hut Beach huts at Norman’s Bay, East Sussex
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