BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES AND RAILINGS

BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES AND RAILINGS, RICHMOND TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380829
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES AND RAILINGS, RICHMOND TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380829
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES AND RAILINGS, RICHMOND TERRACE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES AND RAILINGS, RICHMOND TERRACE

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 31609 05015

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3105SE RICHMOND TERRACE 577-1/28/758 (East side) Brighton College of Technology & attached walls, gates & railings

II

Technical college. 1895 and 1909, altered 1927 and 1935. Red brick laid in English bond with dressings of terracotta, roof of slate. The first stage of the building was the ornate, almost central section of 3-window range, which extends deep into the site; this was built as Brighton Municipal Technical College in 1895-6 to the designs of Francis JC May, Borough Surveyor and Engineer; the north wing was built in 1909 as premises for training teachers, and was incorporated in the Technical College in 1927; the south wing was added in 1935. EXTERIOR: 3 and 5 storeys over basement, 14-window range. Ground floor faced with banded terracotta; steps up to an elliptical-arched entrance, the banding carried through as a Gibbs surround. 4 flat-arched windows to either side with segmental transoms and paired toplights, and the arms of the city between the first and second windows on either side; cornice and fascia, the fascia lettered 'MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE'; the upper part of the central bay has a window to each of 3 storeys enclosed under a single, round-arched architrave, each window being tripartite with a pediment to the central section, of different design on each floor; the third-floor window altered; a pair of flat-arched windows to the 4th floor; the whole central bay flanked by octagonal piers with decorative cornice between second and third floors and elaborate pinnacles at 4th floor; shaped and pedimented gable, the tympanum of the pediment decorated with arabesques. The flanking bays have 2 storeys of flat-arched triple windows with toplights set in a slightly projecting panel of terracotta which is crowned at cornice level by an open pediment through which a bracketed antefixa is pushed. The north wing has flat-arched windows with toplights to the first and second floor, the central window to the first floor having a terracotta architrave consisting of blocked pilasters and open pediment between pinnacles; the south wing is similar except for a round-arched carriage entrance to ground floor, ground-floor windows with toplights, and no first floor architraves. Bracketed cornice to all but central bay, with parapet; corniced ridge- and side-stacks. INTERIOR: the vestibule, staircase hall, and landings to the first and second floors are decorated with glazed and relief-moulded tiles, to dado, filling, frieze and cornice; elliptical arches either side of hall and to east side of landings formed of ornate pilasters and equally ornately treated intrados and flanked by similar pilasters; on all floors and on the staircase are didactic tiled frames enclosing a round-arched panel displaying 4 varieties of marble in each panel. The dogleg staircase is in 3 separate flights from the basement to second floor, with elaborate wrought-iron newel to basement, Neo-Jacobean wooden newel to ground and first floors, scrolled wrought-iron balusters and moulded rail; the staircase turns round 2 tiled columns of composite form with adapted Corinthian capitals and a round, linking arch at ground and first floor, ending in newel posts at the second floor. There is one room on the second floor, at the north end of the building, fitted out like the hall of a board school with dadoes and arched trusses to the roof; it is now divided into 2. Elaborate brick walls to street and entrance with terracotta coping; octagonal gate piers decorated with blocking and ornate caps, the wall between swept up at intervals with small decorative pediments; elaborate cast-iron and wrought-iron gates to entrance, entrance gate piers and carriage entrance, with railings flanking carriage entrance. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3160905015

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Sources

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Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

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