Former Drill Hall Now Royal Mail Sorting Office
FORMER DRILL HALL NOW ROYAL MAIL SORTING OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380394
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Drill Hall Now Royal Mail Sorting Office
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER DRILL HALL NOW ROYAL MAIL SORTING OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380394
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Drill Hall Now Royal Mail Sorting Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER DRILL HALL NOW ROYAL MAIL SORTING OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
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:
- FORMER DRILL HALL NOW ROYAL MAIL SORTING OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
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 30969 04487
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SE CHURCH STREET
577-1/39/149 (North side)
11/04/95 Former drill hall, now Royal Mail
sorting office
GV II
Drill hall of the Royal Sussex Regiment, now Royal Mail
sorting office. 1889-90. By Edmund Scott. Stucco, possibly
over stone, brown brick to rear elevation and hall in Spring
Gardens, roof of tiles to front range, slate to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2-storeys over basement with dormers, 11-window
range. Round-arched entrance towards the centre with an
unusually elaborate surround of rusticated pilasters
supporting an archivolt with Gibbs surround; superimposed on
the pilasters is a set of panelled pilasters supporting a
triglyph frieze, with a broken and open pediment above and
dolphins in the tympanum; set back above the pediment is a
band of bay-leaf ornament and a small segmental pediment.
Round-arched entrance in the westernmost bay and a flat-arched
works entrance at the eastern end. Windows to ground and first
floors round-arched and without architraves; regimental arms
in a stone panel, flanked by lions' heads at the east end;
moulded sill band below first-floor window; eaves with closely
spaced brackets with simplified paterae to the frieze between,
apparently in brick; 5 pedimented dormers to mansard roof with
6 late-C20 dormers inserted between them. The rear elevation
is of brown brick in English bond with heads of gauged red
brick to the first floor; long single-storey hall with lantern
to ridge runs parallel with Spring Gardens, also in brown
brick in English bond,with roof of slate; new openings to
first floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3096904487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480507
- 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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