Library
LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381047
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Library
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381047
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
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:
- LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
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 34498 09046
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3409 UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
577-1/10/1133 Library
30/03/93
GV II*
University library. 1962-71. Sir Basil Spence. Red brick and
bare, board-marked concrete. Timber windows. Flat roof. 2
storeys, treated as 'giant order' plus concealed basement. 15
bays to main, eastern facade, facing into Fulton Court.
Off-centre entrance occupying 6th and 7th bays from left.
Projecting brick buttresses flanking bays 3, 10 and 13 from
the left. Vertical strip windows punctuate large areas of
blind brick wall. Returns with projecting buttresses.
Extension to north for Institute of Development Studies is not
included.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3449809046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481391
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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