Brighton Business Centre
BRIGHTON BUSINESS CENTRE, DITCHLING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380440
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Business Centre
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTON BUSINESS CENTRE, DITCHLING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380440
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Business Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIGHTON BUSINESS CENTRE, DITCHLING 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:
- BRIGHTON BUSINESS CENTRE, DITCHLING 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 31468 05398
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3105SW DITCHLING ROAD
577-1/27/194 (West side)
22/03/88 Brighton Business Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
DITCHLING ROAD
Former Army Records Office)
II
Diocesan Training College for School Mistresses, now business
centre. 1854. Designed by WG and E Habershon, for the Diocese
of Chichester; extended in 1886 to the designs of Scott and
Cawthorne of Brighton. Dated 1854 on a shield over the
entrance and on rainwater heads. Yellow brick to base and
quoins, knapped flint with stone dressings, roof of tiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over half-basement, 7-window range to
south. E-shaped in plan to front and to back, the back wings a
good deal longer. Steps up to pointed segmental-arched porch
and entrance in the central gabled wing, the porch flanked by
small trefoiled lancets with shared hoodmoulds and string;
paired trefoiled lancets to basement; the ground floor has
paired trefoiled lancets grouped in fours to the main range,
and simpler lancets in pairs to the returns of the end wings;
full dormers to the first floor with 2 trefoiled lights and
moulded stone kneelers; the end wings have, on their south
faces, canted oriel with elaborately moulded corbelling and
windows of 5 trefoiled lights to the ground floor, and a
3-light pointed segmental-arched window under a hoodmould with
stops to the first floor; there is a similar window over the
entrance. Ridge stacks, now lower; the west side is detailed
as for the south range, with a cross-gable at the north-west
corner. The east side in Ditchling Road has 4 trefoiled
lancets to the south on the ground floor, then a former
bellcote; then 4 flat-arched windows and then a pointed
segmental-arched carriage entrance; full dormers to the first
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3146805398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480569
- 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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