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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
Tagged with: Post office
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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