Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW PRINCE'S STREET
577-1/40/710 (East side)
01/06/95 Former Parochial Offices

GV II

Parochial Offices for the Board of Guardians and Registrar.
Dated 1894 on keystone over entrance, opened May 1895. By Nunn
and Hunt. Red brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of
Portland stone, polished granite and possibly terracotta; roof
of tiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 windows. The street front is composed
of a gabled entrance bay, with 3-window ranges to either side,
that to the right slightly longer. Round-arched entrance
flanked by columns of pink polished granite with foliage
capitals supporting an architrave lettered 'PAROCHIAL
OFFICES', with a keystone flanked by dolphins and carrying the
date; panelled intrados to the arch; fanlight and panelled
double doors of original design. The entrance is flanked by 2
narrow, round-arched windows and by slightly projecting piers
carried up to the gable kneelers.
The windows of the side ranges are of 2 and 3 lights with
stone dressings. On the ground floor they run, from the
entrance, in a rhythm of 2-3-3 and the lights are round-arched
with detached polished pink granite columns with foliage
capitals between them, and a pointed extrados and dripmould
over; except that the extreme left-hand window, though broadly
Gothic in detail, is Palladian. The ground floor is chamfered
at its left-hand corner, with wave-mouldings making the
transition to the angle of the first floor.
On the first floor there is a central oriel with moulded
corbel, 4 lights with one transom and Tudor-arched heads, and
hipped lead roof; the windows in the side ranges have similar
Tudorish details, are again of 2 and 3 lights, and run out
from the centre in a rhythm of 2-3-3 to the right and 2-3-2 to
the left; moulded sill band; central gable with a band of
blank arcading along its base, a wheel window in the centre of
the arcade, finials to the kneelers and bands of fish-scale
brickwork to its face. Bracketed eaves to side ranges,
possibly of terracotta; ridge stacks now truncated.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3140404173

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660946

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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