Post Office and Attached Walls Piers and Railings
POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED WALLS PIERS AND RAILINGS, COLLEGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380418
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Walls Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED WALLS PIERS AND RAILINGS, COLLEGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380418
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Walls Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED WALLS PIERS AND RAILINGS, COLLEGE ROAD
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:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED WALLS PIERS AND RAILINGS, COLLEGE ROAD
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 32309 03880
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3203NW COLLEGE ROAD
577-1/48/174 (East side)
Post Office and attached walls,
piers and railings
II
Post office. 1887. Stucco. Roof obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement. 4-window range. Arcade of 2
bays supported by Tuscan pilasters in centre of ground-floor
elevation; this arcade pierced by 2 round-arched windows; arch
spandrels have inset panels edged with egg-and-dart moulding;
keystones are vermiculated. To either side near the end walls
a single bay of this centrepiece is repeated; the one of the
right is pierced by a round-arched window; entrance through
the one on the left, its tympanum plainly panelled. At the
corners are rusticated pilaster strips which rise the full
height of the elevation; there is a storey band between the
ground and first floors. The motif of the centrepiece flanked
by end units is repeated on the first floor, the arcades,
however, are blocked, and the Tuscan pilasters omitted. The
blocked windows are subordered, their tympana filled with
shell motifs. Along the storey band, encroaching on the lower
spandrels of the blocked windows is a plaque which bears the
words: "Kemp Town Post Office." At the top of the elevation
runs a plain entablature band with 4 pairs of console brackets
centred on the axes of the bays below. Parapet above, which
projects over the 4 lower bays slightly to form piers, each
topped by a ball finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Railings to area.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 166B).
Listing NGR: TQ3230903880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 166B
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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