Arundel Place Mews Numbers 11 And 12 And Attached Walls And Piers

A mews was built between 1840 and 1860 to serve the Lewes Crescent and Sussex Square. The stucco building has slate roofs. The walls facing Arundel Place are of pebble with brick lacing courses. The layout is an L-shape, creating a triangular forecourt enclosed by high walls to the road.

The mews is largely two stories over a basement. The north-facing wall, which forms the boundary of the courtyard, has a ten-window range. The east-facing wall has a seven-window range. The north return has two windows, and the rear elevation has an eight-window range. The rear, or east-facing, elevation of the other range has a four-window range. The architectural style is Tuscan Vernacular Revival. A section of the main elevation, with a four-window range, projects slightly, forming a two-and-a-half-story bay topped with a pediment containing a blind roundel. Two large, round-arched openings are on the ground floor of this projection; the right-hand opening is an entrance. A second elliptical arched entrance is located on the east arm of the mews. All ground-floor openings, except one, are round-arched and connected by a plain, broad springing band to resemble an arcaded courtyard. The remaining windows are flat-arched. All windows have projecting sills. Broad eaves with projecting roof rafters are present on all elevations. Many original windows survive on the courtyard side: ground-floor windows have six-pane lower sashes and nine-pane upper sashes, with many upper sashes having glazing bars arranged in a semicircular pattern. On the first floor, three original four-by-three-pane windows remain. Three six-by-six-pane original windows are found on the low building to the south, which is included in the listing for group value. The arcaded theme of the ground floor is repeated on the rear, north-facing, elevation, but here the windows are flat-arched within round-arched recesses, unified by a plain springing band. Only two original sashes remain on this elevation: a three-by-six-pane window in the second and third window ranges of the first floor. The group of low buildings attached to the northeast corner of the mews are not included in this listing.

The interior was not inspected. The mews is included for group value with the major Lewes and Sussex Crescents.