Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Brighton, BN1 9RA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381046
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool
Statutory Address:: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Brighton, BN1 9RA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381046
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool
Statutory Address 1:: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Brighton, BN1 9RA

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

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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:: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Brighton, BN1 9RA

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 34514 08965

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 January 2024 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ3409 577-1/10/1137

BRIGHTON GARDNER CENTRE ROAD UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool

(Formerly listed as Gardner Arts Centre including kerbstones to pool, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, BRIGHTON) 30/03/93 GV II* Arts centre including theatre, exhibition spaces and coffee bar. 1967-69. Sir Basil Spence. Brick with some bare concrete. Flat roofs. Comprises complex multi-segmental circular forms, including tall central cylinder with segmental projections and lower surrounding circles and part-circles. Walls largely blind but circles breached in places for vertical slit windows, and sometimes linked by horizontal bands of glazing. Metal window frames. Cafe overlooks small pool of segmental shape.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3451408965

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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.