Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3205SE ELM GROVE
577-1/30/278 (South East side)
Brighton General Hospital, Arundel
Building

II

Brighton workhouse and infirmary, now a hospital. Dated 1865
on foundation stone to right of entrance, 1866 on central
clock tower, and actually completed 1867. Designed by George
Maynard for the Board of Guardians of the Parish of Brighton.
Stucco, roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement, 37 windows in a long,
symmetrical range facing out over Elm Grove arranged as a
centrepiece of 3-window range between pedimented, slightly
projecting wings of 3-window range, then a long range of
eleven windows, and pavilions of 3-window range. Sashes of
original design except in one window on third floor of
centrepiece.
The centrepiece: banded rustication to ground floor;
flat-arched central entrance, altered, flanked by
segmental-arched windows; first-floor central window
segmental-arched with architraves between fluted pilasters,
and flanked by round-arched windows, all 3 linked by a
springing band; storey band; second-floor central window
tripartite with engaged columns, entablature and central
pediment, flanked by flat-arched windows; third-floor central
window tripartite and flanked by flat-arched windows, that to
the left altered (the only obviously altered window in the
whole front); over the central window is a square tower of 2
stages, a clock stage with clocks on all 4 sides and console
brackets at the corners, and a lantern stage with round-arched
louvres and convex lead roof.
The wings either side of the centrepiece have banded
rustication to ground floor; ground-floor windows
segmental-arched, first and second floors flanked by
rusticated strips as quoins; first-floor windows round-arched
with springing band and archivolts; second- and third-floor
windows flat-arched; bracketed cornice to pediment with
Brighton dolphins in the tympanum. The long wings have
flat-arched windows to ground floor, the central ones with
blocked architraves and segmental pediments, as if once doors;
segmental-arched windows to first floor with storey band,
flat-arched to second and third floors. The pavilions match
the wings that flank the centrepiece, giving a composition a b
a c a b a.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was the first part of the
workhouse and infirmary to be built; infirmary blocks facing
Pankhurst Avenue were added in 1891. The buildings ceased to
be used as a workhouse in 1930 and were taken over by Brighton
Municipal Hospital in 1935.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3288505220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660693

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