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Post Office and Attached Walls Piers and Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Brighton and Hove, The City of Brighton and Hove

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8194 / 50°49'9"N

Longitude: -0.1231 / 0°7'23"W

OS Eastings: 532309

OS Northings: 103880

OS Grid: TQ323038

Mapcode National: GBR JP4.KPR

Mapcode Global: FRA B6MX.XJ2

Plus Code: 9C2XRV9G+PQ

Entry Name: Post Office and Attached Walls Piers and Railings

Listing Date: 26 August 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1380418

English Heritage Legacy ID: 480531

ID on this website: 101380418

Location: Kemp Town, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN2

County: The City of Brighton and Hove

Electoral Ward/Division: Queen's Park

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 George with St Anne and St Mark

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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Description



BRIGHTON

TQ3203NW COLLEGE ROAD
577-1/48/174 (East side)
Post Office and attached walls,
piers and railings

II

Post office. 1887. Stucco. Roof obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement. 4-window range. Arcade of 2
bays supported by Tuscan pilasters in centre of ground-floor
elevation; this arcade pierced by 2 round-arched windows; arch
spandrels have inset panels edged with egg-and-dart moulding;
keystones are vermiculated. To either side near the end walls
a single bay of this centrepiece is repeated; the one of the
right is pierced by a round-arched window; entrance through
the one on the left, its tympanum plainly panelled. At the
corners are rusticated pilaster strips which rise the full
height of the elevation; there is a storey band between the
ground and first floors. The motif of the centrepiece flanked
by end units is repeated on the first floor, the arcades,
however, are blocked, and the Tuscan pilasters omitted. The
blocked windows are subordered, their tympana filled with
shell motifs. Along the storey band, encroaching on the lower
spandrels of the blocked windows is a plaque which bears the
words: "Kemp Town Post Office." At the top of the elevation
runs a plain entablature band with 4 pairs of console brackets
centred on the axes of the bays below. Parapet above, which
projects over the 4 lower bays slightly to form piers, each
topped by a ball finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Railings to area.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 166B).

Listing NGR: TQ3230903880

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