Brighton General Hospital, Arundel Building
BRIGHTON GENERAL HOSPITAL, ARUNDEL BUILDING, ELM GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380497
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton General Hospital, Arundel Building
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTON GENERAL HOSPITAL, ARUNDEL BUILDING, ELM GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380497
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton General Hospital, Arundel Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIGHTON GENERAL HOSPITAL, ARUNDEL BUILDING, ELM GROVE
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 GENERAL HOSPITAL, ARUNDEL BUILDING, ELM GROVE
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 32885 05220
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3205SE ELM GROVE
577-1/30/278 (South East side)
Brighton General Hospital, Arundel
Building
II
Brighton workhouse and infirmary, now a hospital. Dated 1865
on foundation stone to right of entrance, 1866 on central
clock tower, and actually completed 1867. Designed by George
Maynard for the Board of Guardians of the Parish of Brighton.
Stucco, roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement, 37 windows in a long,
symmetrical range facing out over Elm Grove arranged as a
centrepiece of 3-window range between pedimented, slightly
projecting wings of 3-window range, then a long range of
eleven windows, and pavilions of 3-window range. Sashes of
original design except in one window on third floor of
centrepiece.
The centrepiece: banded rustication to ground floor;
flat-arched central entrance, altered, flanked by
segmental-arched windows; first-floor central window
segmental-arched with architraves between fluted pilasters,
and flanked by round-arched windows, all 3 linked by a
springing band; storey band; second-floor central window
tripartite with engaged columns, entablature and central
pediment, flanked by flat-arched windows; third-floor central
window tripartite and flanked by flat-arched windows, that to
the left altered (the only obviously altered window in the
whole front); over the central window is a square tower of 2
stages, a clock stage with clocks on all 4 sides and console
brackets at the corners, and a lantern stage with round-arched
louvres and convex lead roof.
The wings either side of the centrepiece have banded
rustication to ground floor; ground-floor windows
segmental-arched, first and second floors flanked by
rusticated strips as quoins; first-floor windows round-arched
with springing band and archivolts; second- and third-floor
windows flat-arched; bracketed cornice to pediment with
Brighton dolphins in the tympanum. The long wings have
flat-arched windows to ground floor, the central ones with
blocked architraves and segmental pediments, as if once doors;
segmental-arched windows to first floor with storey band,
flat-arched to second and third floors. The pavilions match
the wings that flank the centrepiece, giving a composition a b
a c a b a.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was the first part of the
workhouse and infirmary to be built; infirmary blocks facing
Pankhurst Avenue were added in 1891. The buildings ceased to
be used as a workhouse in 1930 and were taken over by Brighton
Municipal Hospital in 1935.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3288505220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480729
- 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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