RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, WALLS AND RAILINGS
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1298671
Date first listed: 02-Nov-1992
Statutory Address: RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, STATION APPROACH
Statutory Address: RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, WALLS AND RAILINGS, DENMARK VILLAS
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Location
Statutory Address: RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, STATION APPROACH
Statutory Address: RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, WALLS AND RAILINGS, DENMARK VILLAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
National Grid Reference: TQ 28968 05488
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TQ2805SE
579-1/14/39
HOVE
DENMARK VILLAS
(West side)
Ralli Memorial Hall, walls and
railings
GV
II
Community centre. Dated 1913. Architects Read and Macdonald of
London for Mrs Stephen Ralli, builders Chapman, Lowry and
Puttock. Wrenaissance style.
Red brick laid in English bond, hipped clay tile roof with
upswept eaves and strongly moulded wooden dentil cornice,
brick stacks. L-plan fronting Denmark Villas with long return
of the assembly hall onto Station Approach.
2 storeys over basement 1:3:1 bays, end bays project forward
with pilaster quoins and drops in place of capitals under
hipped roofs with shallow pediments to oriels bays carried on
shaped brackets, all mullion and transom windows with leaded
lights, central oriel gives access to balcony over hexagonal
porch, flanked by mullion and transom casements and garlands
enclosing the date AD 1913; ground floor with segmental headed
casements below oriels, Ionic porch projecting for 3 bays and
recessed for 3 bays with 3 pairs of 12-light double doors with
shaped heads, approached by a shallow flight of 3 steps. There
is an ornamental cartouche in the centre of the solid parapet
to balcony. Ornamental hoppers to square section down pipes.
North return of 2:1:6:2 bays, dentil moulded cornice returned
around head of bulls-eye window over entrance in third bay
left, 6-light mullion and transom windows to buttressed hall,
plaque in central bay inscribed "This stone was laid by
Stephen Andrew Ralli grandson of Stephen Ralli in memory of
whom this all was erected by his wife 14 April 1913".
Brick piers with moulded plinths and coping carrying ball
finials to inner bays returned south and north to entrance on
Station Road Approach, continued along the north elevation;
wrought-iron railings set in dwarf wall.
A fine composition.
Listing NGR: TQ2896805488
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 365517
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.
End of official listing