Eastbourne Heritage Centre
EASTBOURNE HERITAGE CENTRE, 2, CARLISLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390565
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Eastbourne Heritage Centre
- Statutory Address:
- EASTBOURNE HERITAGE CENTRE, 2, CARLISLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390565
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Eastbourne Heritage Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTBOURNE HERITAGE CENTRE, 2, CARLISLE ROAD
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:
- EASTBOURNE HERITAGE CENTRE, 2, CARLISLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Eastbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TV 61252 98390
Details
623/0/10063 CARLISLE ROAD 14-AUG-03 2 Eastbourne Heritage Centre
GV II Manager's house and flagstaff tower, later heritage centre. Built in Italianate style for the Devonshire Park and Baths Company. May have been designed by George Ambrose Wallis, the town's first mayor and an engineer who was the duke of Devonshire's Eastbourne agent and designed the adjoining baths. Possibly Henry Currie the Duke of Devonshire's architect may have had a hand. Built of red brick with stuccoed dressings and slate roof. Comprises three storey octagonal corner tower and lower two storey and basement villa of two bays.
EXTERIOR: Tower has iron cresting to roof, paired bracket eaves cornice and three windows which are paired round-headed windows with blustrading underneath to second floor, rectangular windows with stops and band to first floor and round-headed windows with stops and band interrupted at impost level to ground floor. The attached villa has a hipped roof with cast iron cresting, end quoins and paired bracket cornice, Two rectangular sashes with stops to first floor and round-headed windows to ground floor , band interrupted at impost level with a round-headed doorcase with keystone to soouth side approached up a flight of steps with brick piers with pyramidal caps.
INTERIOR: Originally three rooms to each floor with central staircase but circa 1983 a staircase was inserted in the flag tower and a large room created on each floor.
HISTORY: The Devonshire Park and Baths Company were established and financed by the 7th Duke of Devonshire as part of his development of Eastbourne. The adjoining Devonshire baths of 1874 were at the time the largest heated salt water baths in the country but now only the outer perimeter walls remain.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490513
- 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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