First Base Day Centre
FIRST BASE DAY CENTRE, MONTPELIER PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380368
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- First Base Day Centre
- Statutory Address:
- FIRST BASE DAY CENTRE, MONTPELIER PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380368
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- First Base Day Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRST BASE DAY CENTRE, MONTPELIER 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:
- FIRST BASE DAY CENTRE, MONTPELIER 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:
- TQ 30180 04635
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004NW MONTPELIER PLACE
577-1/31/533 (North side)
13/10/52 First Base Day Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER PLACE
St Stephen's Church (Deaf and Dumb
Institute))
GV II*
Day centre. A plaque on the building relates that it
originally stood in Castle Square, Brighton, and was built in
1766 to the designs of John Crunden as the ballroom of the
Castle Tavern; that it became the chapel of the Royal Pavilion
in 1822; and that it was moved to its present site in 1852.
The pedimented street-front and lantern, but not the broad,
single-storey porch are of that date, by Cheeseman; and the
church was remodelled by Arthur Blomfield in 1889. In the C20
it has been known as St Stephen's church, and was used by the
Sussex Diocesan Association for the Deaf and Dumb; it became a
Day Centre in 1988, was badly damaged by fire in that year,
and restored. Stucco, roof of Welsh slate.
EXTERIOR: the building presents a single pedimented front to
Montpelier Place, with the addition of the porch which is
divided into 3 bays by paired pilasters with stepped capitals:
segmental-arched entrance in the centre with double panelled
doors and segmental-arched windows in the outer bays. The main
front is divided into 3 bays by single Doric pilasters; plain
architrave and dentilled pediment; octagonal lantern at the
apex, the lower part sheathed in lead, the upper part an open
arcade between pilasters; tent-like roof; the return
elevations have round-arched windows and transepts, that to
the west very shallow; single-storey extension to the east of
the original building with flat-arched entrance.
INTERIOR: the interior is in the Adam style and consists of a
single principal space, the walls articulated with pilasters
whose faces are decorated with griffins, urns, palmettes and
repeating calyx forms, with palm-leaf capitals; the central
portion of each wall is recessed with an arrangement of
pilasters and columns, similarly detailed, distyle in antis;
entablature with frieze of urns enclosed in ovals, missing at
the south-west corner; segmental-arched ceiling with 3 large
roses of acanthus ornament.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3018004635
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480456
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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