Hanningtons Department Store
HANNINGTONS DEPARTMENT STORE, 42, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380474
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hanningtons Department Store
- Statutory Address:
- HANNINGTONS DEPARTMENT STORE, 42, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380474
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hanningtons Department Store
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANNINGTONS DEPARTMENT STORE, 42, EAST 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:
- HANNINGTONS DEPARTMENT STORE, 42, EAST 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 31174 04109
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW EAST STREET
577-1/64/230 (West side)
19/10/94 No.42
Hannington's Department Store
II
Department store. c1866. By Henry Jarvis. Painted brick in
Flemish bond. Roof parapeted.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement. 4-window range. High
Victorian Gothic style. Flat-arched windows to the first and
second floors, each is set into a round-arched aedicule niche
and placed well back from the front wall. On the first floor
this niche is set under a plain Gothic aedicule with a gabled
tympanum; the window heads are connected by a springing band.
On the second floor, there is a sill band; the window-niche
heads have architraves with hood mouldings above; between the
window lintel, which is chamfered with ogee stops, and the
round head of the niche is a blind roundel. The rebated jambs
to the second-floor windows have an attached column with a
capital cast in naturalistic forms. There is a sill band to
the third-floor windows which are segmental arched, each set
under an aedicule consisting of a Gothic gable supported by a
pair of corbels. These aedicules intersect with the
entablature's bracketed cornice. The main features of the
elevation are repeated in the first bay of the right return,
which is partly obscured by the first-floor bridge,
constructed in 1989, spanning the north end of Market Street.
At rear of return are flat-arched windows grouped into shallow
round-arched arcades; the entablature breaks out over the
centre to form a shallow pediment filled with a blind roundel.
INTERIOR: cast-iron columns on ground floor stand on broached
socles; the upper 2 thirds of each shaft is diapered; the
capitals are formed from stylised acanthus leaves supporting
an octagonal impost block. This listing does not include any
other part of the Hannington's complex.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Hannington's began in premises in North
Street in 1808, selling textiles and hosiery. In 1814 came the
first of a series of enlargements, which have continued into
this century. Hannington's Corner was acquired in 1924.
Purchases in 1960 and 1974 have given the store continuous
frontage in North Street and East Street. Plans by the
architect Henry Jarvis are held in the Borough's Plans
Registry Office and are dated January 1866.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 112).
Listing NGR: TQ3117404109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480663
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 112
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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