Sussex Masonic Club

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NE QUEEN'S ROAD 577-1/32/727 (West side) 20/08/71 No.25 Sussex Masonic Club

GV II

House. c1830. Probably by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustine Busby; enlarged by the addition of the Masonic Temple, and presumably the wing to the south, in 1928. Stucco, roof of tiles. EXTERIOR: 3 and 4 storeys with dormers, the original building of 5-window range, the additions bringing the total to eleven. The original front is divided into 3 bays by Doric pilasters with honeysuckle and palmette ornament to the necking. Central flat-arched entrance set back under porch with Greek Doric columns distyle in antis, the entablature with triglyph frieze and mutule cornice. All windows flat-arched. The central first-floor window altered to a canted oriel in C19; entablature; attic storey with slightly recessed centre; secondary cornice; dormers in mansard roof; side and ridge stacks. The wing to the north, including the Masonic Temple, stands forward to the street front on the ground floor; flat-arched entrance with decoratively glazed overlight and panelled doors of original design, flanked by flat-arched windows with decorative glazing; the entrance and windows have architraves decorated with ribbing and corner blocks; entablature and blocking course; first, second and third floors set back with simple architraves and the third floor treated as an attic. To the south, a screen wall to street with a 2-storey wing set back; simple architraves to the ground floor, those to the first floor ribbed and with corner blocks; cornice and panelled parapet. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3089204550