Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004SE CHURCH STREET
577-1/39/149 (North side)
11/04/95 Former drill hall, now Royal Mail
sorting office

GV II

Drill hall of the Royal Sussex Regiment, now Royal Mail
sorting office. 1889-90. By Edmund Scott. Stucco, possibly
over stone, brown brick to rear elevation and hall in Spring
Gardens, roof of tiles to front range, slate to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2-storeys over basement with dormers, 11-window
range. Round-arched entrance towards the centre with an
unusually elaborate surround of rusticated pilasters
supporting an archivolt with Gibbs surround; superimposed on
the pilasters is a set of panelled pilasters supporting a
triglyph frieze, with a broken and open pediment above and
dolphins in the tympanum; set back above the pediment is a
band of bay-leaf ornament and a small segmental pediment.
Round-arched entrance in the westernmost bay and a flat-arched
works entrance at the eastern end. Windows to ground and first
floors round-arched and without architraves; regimental arms
in a stone panel, flanked by lions' heads at the east end;
moulded sill band below first-floor window; eaves with closely
spaced brackets with simplified paterae to the frieze between,
apparently in brick; 5 pedimented dormers to mansard roof with
6 late-C20 dormers inserted between them. The rear elevation
is of brown brick in English bond with heads of gauged red
brick to the first floor; long single-storey hall with lantern
to ridge runs parallel with Spring Gardens, also in brown
brick in English bond,with roof of slate; new openings to
first floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3096904487

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660597

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