Pennant Lodge and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings
PENNANT LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 30, WEST DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381095
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Pennant Lodge and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- PENNANT LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 30, WEST DRIVE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381095
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Pennant Lodge and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENNANT LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 30, WEST DRIVE
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:
- PENNANT LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 30, WEST DRIVE
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 32131 04678
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3204NW WEST DRIVE
577-1/35/962 (North West side)
20/08/71 No.30
Pennant Lodge and attached walls,
piers and railings
II
House. Built in 1851 for Charles Freshfield. Stucco. 2 hipped
roofs of slate, that to left longer than the other.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over half basement. Rectangular in plan
with a 6-window range to the front, and a 2-window range to
left return and rear. All windows are flat arched with deep
reveals. A description of the main principal elevation to West
Drive follows. The broad basement area is enclosed by a low
retaining wall interrupted by socles, those at ends, which
rise higher than the rest, are attached to the front wall of
the house by a curving parapet wall. There are similar curving
walls between the second- and third-window range and between
the 4th- and 5th-window range. The ground- and first-floor
windows have plain architraves. A continuous ground-floor
verandah is supported by 5 twisted cast-iron colonnettes each
with an acanthus-leaf capital. The verandah is enclosed by a
cast-iron railing of an original mid-C19 design. Still thinner
colonnettes support the curved metal roof. The ends of the
verandah are closed off by short walls. Projecting and
bracketed eaves are continuous around the building. The main
entrance can be found on the left return; it is flat arched
and set under a large porch, square in plan, with Tuscan
corner pilasters and responds; the stucco capitals and
entablature of the porch are at the time of writing (January
1992) damaged; above the porch is a parapet with a blind
balustrade. A porch of similar design but in excellent
condition to the rear elevation. This serves as an entrance
from the car park constructed in 1985. Of particular note are
the tall, thin stacks to the end and rear walls; stack also
found on the join between the hipped roofs; multiple flues
gathered at the top of each stack and capped by a simple
cornice; the flue guards are in the form of scrolled
pediments.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Walls, piers and cast-iron railings of an original design to
areas on either side of the left-return entrance porch. The
house was incorporated into the "Queen's Park Villas" complex
during a 1985 restoration and conversion into offices. Prior
to this conversion the structure had been used as a nursing
home.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 138D).
Listing NGR: TQ3213104678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481440
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 138D
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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