The Royal Spa
THE ROYAL SPA, PARK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380699
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Spa
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL SPA, PARK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380699
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Spa
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL SPA, PARK HILL
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:
- THE ROYAL SPA, PARK HILL
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:
- TQ3201304329
Details
TQ3204SW
577-1/42/650
13/10/52
BRIGHTON
PARK HILL
(North side)
The Royal Spa
GV
II
Ruins of the German Spa, called "Royal" after a royal warrant
was obtained in 1835. Built in 1825 by the architect Lorraine
for Dr. FA Struve, who had opened spas in Berlin, Dresden and
Leipzig. Although the pump room was closed in the 1850s, the
building was used for the manufacture and bottling of mineral
water until 1965. The pump room demolished in the early 1970s
except for the north wall and portico; ruins restored by TR
Williams in 1978 when the Royal Spa Nursery School built to
the west. Stucco. Greek Revival style.
Portico of 6 fluted Ionic columns standing on a paved terrace;
entablature and parapet which rises to crest over the centre
bay and must once have born an inscription. Plain lintel
between the portico and its responds, unfluted Ionic
pilasters, which are set on the former north wall. 5
round-arched openings with architraves in this wall: the end
bays are doorways; the centre are windows with projecting
sills and spandrels. The wall is slightly wider than the
portico, and returns to a left-rear corner; the right returns
for only 2 metres. The former interior wall to the west has a
recessed panel in the form of a Venetian window.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 138B).
Listing NGR: TQ3201304329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481023
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 138B
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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