Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre

Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre, 3, Lansdowne Road, Hove, BN3 1DN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206258
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre
Statutory Address:: Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre, 3, Lansdowne Road, Hove, BN3 1DN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206258
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre
Statutory Address 1:: Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre, 3, Lansdowne Road, Hove, BN3 1DN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre, 3, Lansdowne Road, Hove, BN3 1DN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29998 04754

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 October 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ2904NE 579-1/19/87

HOVE LANSDOWNE ROAD (North side) No 3 (Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre)

(Formerly Listed as St Anne's Convent, previously listed as: LANSDOWNE ROAD St Anne's Childrens Home)

10/09/71

GV II

Villa, convent at time of listing. Early C19, enlarged c1900, refenestrated early-mid C20.

Render over brick, brick additions, hipped slate roof to original house, clay tiles to additions.

Plan: original square block, entered on the north front, now entered on the west at the junction with additions to north.

South front: two storeys over basement, three bays, moulded cornice, flat string course, moulded surrounds to window openings, first floor mullioned and transomed wooden casements, ground floor pivoted upper lights and fixed lower lights, blind boxes surviving.

West front of 3:2:1:3 bays, end four bays right are the original building, late C19 gabled wooden porch in fourth bay right approached by flight of steps with solid balustrade returned as bottle balustrade around south front of property.

Interior partly inspected. Greek Revival style frieze and capitals to stair hall entrance, cantilever stair with pretty cast-iron balusters of a stylised wheatsheaf design, coved ceiling with three paterae beyond; the three bays of the south front are now occupied by the chapel (not inspected).

Built as Wick Lodge, the house was surrounded by a verandah on the south and west fronts as shown on the 1877 OS map; the additions to north are shown on the 1909 OS map when the building was then known as St Michael's Hall and was, according to the street directories, a school for ladies. Later it became Claremont School, and c1947 became a children's home in the care of the sisters of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God; a day centre, with accommodation for homeless women at time of listing.

Listing NGR: TQ2999804754

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 365581
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.