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Date of photo: 2025	Picture source: Simon Armstrong
The Tram Car Inn was situated at 51 The Green, Southwick. This grade-II listed pub closed in July 2024.
Listed building details:
Public house. 1906. By HTD Hedley. Glazed brown and yellow tile ground floor, bright red brick of varying tones above with sandstone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Returns white glazed brick. Gable to street has two storeys and attic, one wide window. Exuberant Jacobean style. Ground floor has doors flanking 3 windows, in arcade with attached plain Corinthian columns on high plinths forming doorcases; panelled plinth below windows; keyed round heads with low-relief cartouches and foliage in spandrels. Entablature has pulvinated frieze with Art Nouveau TRAM CAR INN in low-relief letters; broken pediments over doors. Left door blocked, right panelled with plain overlight. First floor mullion and transom 5-light window has irregular block jambs to flush stone surround; similar style 3-light mullion window above rises into shaped gable with ball-and-cushion finial. Roof drainage holes below feet of gable with cast-iron drainpipes. Late C20 signboards WHITBREAD and TRAMCAR INN attached to front.
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Date of photo: 2025	Picture source: Simon Armstrong