New Venture Theatre Club and Attached Walls
NEW VENTURE THEATRE CLUB AND ATTACHED WALLS, BEDFORD PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379976
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- New Venture Theatre Club and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NEW VENTURE THEATRE CLUB AND ATTACHED WALLS, BEDFORD PLACE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12707/24
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- © Lorna Freeman. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379976
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- New Venture Theatre Club and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEW VENTURE THEATRE CLUB AND ATTACHED WALLS, BEDFORD PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NEW VENTURE THEATRE CLUB AND ATTACHED WALLS, BEDFORD PLACE
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:
- TQ3013204381
Details
TQ3004SW
577-1/38/23
20/08/71
BRIGHTON
BEDFORD PLACE
(East side)
New Venture Theatre Club and attached walls
(Formerly Listed as:
BEDFORD PLACE
Christ Church Schools (The Infant Welfare Centre))
II
School, now theatre club. The building is in 2 parts: a
single-storey wing to the street, dated 1841 in the frieze;
and a large, 2-storey wing to the rear of c1890. The front
wing of stucco and cobbles, the rear of brick and stucco,
roofs of slate. 3-window range.
EXTERIOR: the front wing is double-fronted with a recessed
centre, and Tudor-Gothic in style. Pointed-arched entrance
under a rectangular architrave and hoodmould, panelled door of
original design; flanking flat-arched window with splayed
reveals and hoodmoulds; frieze with recessed lettering 'CHRIST
CHURCH SCHOOLS ERECTED AD 1841'; central gable with stucco
shield and flanking shaped gables with blind flat-arched
windows under hoodmoulds; both returns have flat-arched
windows as for street front and gables with shields.
The later wing has one-window range either side of the first
one; the windows have shallow cambered arches with gauged
brick heads and keystones, triple sashes with top lights, and
cornices to the first floor; external stacks between the
windows with arched gulleys for rainwater, original rainwater
goods and triangular pilaster strips; shaped gables flanked at
the corners of the building by stucco consoles, coped with
stucco and having intricate finials; shaped gables to north
and south.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Dwarf wall to street with square, stuccoed and corniced gate
piers, either side of 1841 wing.
Listing NGR: TQ3013204381
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479448
- 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.
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