Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3105SW DITCHLING ROAD
577-1/27/194 (West side)
22/03/88 Brighton Business Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
DITCHLING ROAD
Former Army Records Office)

II

Diocesan Training College for School Mistresses, now business
centre. 1854. Designed by WG and E Habershon, for the Diocese
of Chichester; extended in 1886 to the designs of Scott and
Cawthorne of Brighton. Dated 1854 on a shield over the
entrance and on rainwater heads. Yellow brick to base and
quoins, knapped flint with stone dressings, roof of tiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over half-basement, 7-window range to
south. E-shaped in plan to front and to back, the back wings a
good deal longer. Steps up to pointed segmental-arched porch
and entrance in the central gabled wing, the porch flanked by
small trefoiled lancets with shared hoodmoulds and string;
paired trefoiled lancets to basement; the ground floor has
paired trefoiled lancets grouped in fours to the main range,
and simpler lancets in pairs to the returns of the end wings;
full dormers to the first floor with 2 trefoiled lights and
moulded stone kneelers; the end wings have, on their south
faces, canted oriel with elaborately moulded corbelling and
windows of 5 trefoiled lights to the ground floor, and a
3-light pointed segmental-arched window under a hoodmould with
stops to the first floor; there is a similar window over the
entrance. Ridge stacks, now lower; the west side is detailed
as for the south range, with a cross-gable at the north-west
corner. The east side in Ditchling Road has 4 trefoiled
lancets to the south on the ground floor, then a former
bellcote; then 4 flat-arched windows and then a pointed
segmental-arched carriage entrance; full dormers to the first
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3146805398

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Brighton Forum at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4967646

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings