The Pavilion Theatre and Booking Office is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Theatre. 6 related planning applications.
The Pavilion Theatre and Booking Office
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-column-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Theatre
- Address
- The Pavilion Theatre and Booking Office, 29, New Road, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1UG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 043
- Coordinates
- 50.82356, -0.13908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pavilion Theatre and Booking Office is a building located on New Road in Brighton, originally constructed around 1935 as a supper room for the Corn Exchange, designed by Robert Atkinson. When it was converted into a theatre, an adjacent early 19th-century terraced house was repurposed as the box office, which is included in this listing. The box office is finished in stucco and features a parapeted roof, standing three storeys over a basement with a single-window range.
The Pavilion Theatre itself is built of grey brick in Flemish bond, with stone dressings around all openings and a hipped metal roof. It rises three storeys and has a two-storey aisle wing to the right. The design incorporates stylised Islamic architectural forms, resembling Atkinson's Corn Exchange Theatre nearby. The main elevation features a pair of tower-like bays flanking a central bay, with all three sections sharing a lotus parapet that returns. Inside, the theatre retains a proscenium arch adorned with geometrical motifs, a Moorish-inspired ceiling, and three Moorish arches at the back of the auditorium. The building is included for its group value with the Dome and Corn Exchange.
Local climate
The Pavilion Theatre and Booking Office receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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