The Ocean Hotel Front Block
THE OCEAN HOTEL FRONT BLOCK, LONGRIDGE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381688
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Ocean Hotel Front Block
- Statutory Address:
- THE OCEAN HOTEL FRONT BLOCK, LONGRIDGE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381688
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Ocean Hotel Front Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OCEAN HOTEL FRONT BLOCK, LONGRIDGE AVENUE
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 OCEAN HOTEL FRONT BLOCK, LONGRIDGE AVENUE
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 38506 02136
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3802 LONGRIDGE AVENUE, Saltdean
577-1/14/1097 (West side)
01/10/92 The Ocean Hotel, front block
(Formerly Listed as:
LONGRIDGE AVENUE
Ocean Hotel)
II
Hotel. 1938. By RWH Jones, reinforced concrete engineering by
JL Kier and Co. Reinforced concrete, plastered.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 4 storeys over basement, 19-window range. The
front block is set out in a concave curve and is symmetrical
with a centrepiece, ranges of 5 windows either side and wings
of 3 windows. Steps up to flat-arched central entrance flanked
by curved walls partly of glass and partly decorated with
banded rustication, all under a cantilevered semicircular
canopy; above the entrance the centrepiece has a 2-storey bay
with tripartite window having original horizontal glazing and
one-window wings to either side; the central part stepped up
above the parapet; flat-arched windows to side ranges, the
glazing altered, to first and second floors; deep storey band
between ground and first floors; wings have porthole windows
below principal ground- floor windows and an architrave panel
framing the first- and second-floor windows; third floor of
wings blank , with brackets for flagpoles. In the rear, the
first and second floors are treated as a series of 5 separate
wings fanning out southwards from the main front.
INTERIOR: vestibule with original cantilevered spiral
staircase to 3 floors; restaurant to original plan but with
the decorative treatment of the south-facing walls altered,
probably at an early stage, to incorporate decorative
low-relief figures in painted plaster.
To the south, behind and below the main block, are 6 linked
dormitory blocks, 3 each on either side of swimming and
paddling pools; these have generally been raised in height,
and the pools have been covered over. Some original glazing to
the dormitory blocks remains, but this group is not now of
special architectural or historic interest.
(Architect and Building News: 12 August 1938).
Listing NGR: TQ3850602136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482051
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Architect and Building News in 12 August, (1938)
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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