RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, WALLS AND RAILINGS
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, WALLS AND RAILINGS
List entry Number: 1298671
Location
RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, STATION APPROACH
RALLI MEMORIAL HALL, WALLS AND RAILINGS, DENMARK VILLAS
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: The City of Brighton and Hove
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 02-Nov-1992
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 365517
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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
Selected Sources
National Grid Reference: TQ 28968 05488
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