Brighton Business Centre

The Brighton Business Centre, originally a Diocesan Training College for School Mistresses, was built in 1854. It was designed by W.G. and E. Habershon for the Diocese of Chichester and extended in 1886 by Scott and Cawthorne of Brighton. Dates of 1854 are inscribed on a shield above the entrance and on the rainwater heads. The building is constructed of yellow brick to the base and quoins, knapped flint with stone dressings, and has a tiled roof.

The building is two storeys over a half-basement and has a seven-window range to the south. It has an E-shaped plan to both the front and rear, with the rear wings being significantly longer. A pointed segmental-arched porch and entrance are centrally located within the gabled wing, flanked by small trefoiled lancet windows sharing a hoodmould and a string course. The basement has paired trefoiled lancets. The ground floor features paired trefoiled lancets grouped in fours to the main range, and simpler paired lancets to the returns of the end wings. The first floor has full dormers with two trefoiled lights and moulded stone kneelers. The end wings have canted oriels with elaborately moulded corbelling and windows containing five trefoiled lights to the ground floor, with a three-light pointed segmental-arched window under a hoodmould with run-out stops to the first floor; a similar window is positioned above the entrance. Ridge stacks are present, and the west side mirrors the details of the south range, including a cross-gable at the northwest corner. The east side, facing Ditchling Road, has four trefoiled lancets to the south on the ground floor, followed by a former bellcote, then four flat-arched windows, and a pointed segmental-arched carriage entrance. Again, full dormers are present to the first floor. The interior of the building has not been inspected.