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Latitude: 50.8244 / 50°49'27"N
Longitude: -0.1538 / 0°9'13"W
OS Eastings: 530132
OS Northings: 104381
OS Grid: TQ301043
Mapcode National: GBR JP3.9XR
Mapcode Global: FRA B6KX.HWZ
Plus Code: 9C2XRRFW+PF
Entry Name: New Venture Theatre Club and Attached Walls
Listing Date: 20 August 1971
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379976
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479448
Also known as: Christ Church Schools (The Infant Welfare Centre)
ID on this website: 101379976
Location: Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN1
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Regency
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Brighton St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Theatre School building
TQ3004SW
577-1/38/23
20/08/71
BRIGHTON
BEDFORD PLACE
(East side)
New Venture Theatre Club and attached walls
(Formerly Listed as:
BEDFORD PLACE
Christ Church Schools (The Infant Welfare Centre))
II
School, now theatre club. The building is in 2 parts: a
single-storey wing to the street, dated 1841 in the frieze;
and a large, 2-storey wing to the rear of c1890. The front
wing of stucco and cobbles, the rear of brick and stucco,
roofs of slate. 3-window range.
EXTERIOR: the front wing is double-fronted with a recessed
centre, and Tudor-Gothic in style. Pointed-arched entrance
under a rectangular architrave and hoodmould, panelled door of
original design; flanking flat-arched window with splayed
reveals and hoodmoulds; frieze with recessed lettering 'CHRIST
CHURCH SCHOOLS ERECTED AD 1841'; central gable with stucco
shield and flanking shaped gables with blind flat-arched
windows under hoodmoulds; both returns have flat-arched
windows as for street front and gables with shields.
The later wing has one-window range either side of the first
one; the windows have shallow cambered arches with gauged
brick heads and keystones, triple sashes with top lights, and
cornices to the first floor; external stacks between the
windows with arched gulleys for rainwater, original rainwater
goods and triangular pilaster strips; shaped gables flanked at
the corners of the building by stucco consoles, coped with
stucco and having intricate finials; shaped gables to north
and south.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Dwarf wall to street with square, stuccoed and corniced gate
piers, either side of 1841 wing.
Listing NGR: TQ3013204381
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