ROYAL YORK BUILDINGS INCLUDING BUS DEPOT

ROYAL YORK BUILDINGS INCLUDING BUS DEPOT, OLD STEINE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380677
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: ROYAL YORK BUILDINGS INCLUDING BUS DEPOT
Statutory Address:: ROYAL YORK BUILDINGS INCLUDING BUS DEPOT, OLD STEINE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380677
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: ROYAL YORK BUILDINGS INCLUDING BUS DEPOT
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL YORK BUILDINGS INCLUDING BUS DEPOT, OLD STEINE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL YORK BUILDINGS INCLUDING BUS DEPOT, OLD STEINE

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 31239 03946

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NW OLD STEINE 577-1/46/639 (South side) 13/10/52 Royal York Buildings including bus depot

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Hotel, now offices and bus depot. 1819; enlarged in 1827 taking in the 2 houses to the right, west, and another to the left, east; refurbished in 1901; in 1929 purchased by the Council for use as offices; coach station to the rear on Pool Valley. Stucco. Roofs of slate turnerised. EXTERIOR: because the complex is composed of several distinct buildings, the following description will treat the different sections separately. The entrance block, dated 1819 in pediment over attic, is composed of 3 sections, the ends 3 storeys and attic, the centre 3 storeys with a 2-storey attic; 3-window range. Flat-arched entrance with over- and sidelights, the latter filled with late C19 or early C20 stained glass. Doric tetrastyle porch to entrance, columns paired near corners, the roof serves as first-floor balcony. Added to this porch a cast-iron porte cochere from late C19 or early C20: traceried tympanum, finials, barrel-vaulted roof. The openings in this centre range are tripartite: French doors to first floor and windows above; the columns separating the centre from side openings on the first through first attic floors are treated as Roman fasces, a feature associated with French Empire design, and one found on a less lavish scale in several terraced houses in Brighton; second attic storey set in tetrastyle in antis surround, the end antae panelled, above which is a segmental pediment filled with floral scrolls and bearing date of construction. All windows are flat arched. To either side of entrance range are identical, semicircular, 3-storey bays with tripartite windows, the columns between centre and side windows treated as Roman fasces; each bay terminates in a broad entablature; attic storey above is flush with entrance range wall and topped by plain cornice. Because the hotel was enlarged into buildings already on the site, the design of the block is not unified. Block to the left has 4 storeys with dormers over attic, the latter dating to late C19 or early C20, and a 2-window range; banded rustication to ground floor; flat-arched entry set in first-window range under canted, glazed porch; range to right has tripartite windows, floor-to-ceiling windows on first floor, sill bands to second- and third-floor windows, all with architraves; steeply-pitched gabled dormer straddles party wall; sashes of original design, 6/6, to second floor. Return of 3-window range has 3 bays, the centre semicircular, the sides segmental; 2 entrances on return; gabled dormers to roof; railings to areas and entrance. Wing to right of entrance block formed from 2 terraced houses which are now difficult to distinguish from one another: 4 storeys; 5-window range between them; 2 full-height bays, the left canted with tripartite windows, the right 5-sided on ground and first floors and canted above. The rear elevation to Pool Valley is much altered and very irregular with storey bands at different levels; in centre of roof parapet a plaque bears the words "Royal York Buildings." Included in this listing is the bus depot at the south-west corner of the block; early C20. Stacks at former party walls and end walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the hotel has had a distinguished history: concerts and recitals were held in its public rooms; in 1861 Charles Dickens read "David Copperfield"; among many distinguished guests were the Duke and Duchess of Clarence in October of 1829 and Benjamin Disraeli in 1840. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 163).

Listing NGR: TQ3123903946

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Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 163

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.