Sussex Masonic Club is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. House. 14 related planning applications.

Sussex Masonic Club

WRENN ID
upper-hall-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
House
Address
Sussex Masonic Club, 25, Queens Road, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 3XA
OS grid reference
TQ 308 045
Coordinates
50.8257, -0.14292
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Sussex Masonic Club is a house built around 1830, likely designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustine Busby. It was enlarged in 1928 with the addition of the Masonic Temple and a wing to the south. The building features a stucco exterior with a tiled roof and stands three to four storeys high, including dormers. The original structure has a five-window range, which has been expanded to eleven with the additions.

The front of the original building is divided into three bays by Doric pilasters, adorned with honeysuckle and palmette ornamentation. There is a central flat-arched entrance set back under a porch supported by Greek Doric columns, with an entablature that includes a triglyph frieze and mutule cornice. All windows are flat-arched, and the central first-floor window has been altered to a canted oriel in the 19th century. The attic storey features a slightly recessed centre, a secondary cornice, and dormers in a mansard roof, along with side and ridge stacks.

The wing to the north, which includes the Masonic Temple, projects forward at the ground floor level. It has a flat-arched entrance with a decoratively glazed overlight and panelled doors designed in the original style, flanked by flat-arched windows with decorative glazing. The entrance and windows are framed with architraves that have ribbing and corner blocks, topped with an entablature and blocking course. The first, second, and third floors are set back, with simple architraves, and the third floor is treated as an attic. To the south, there is a screen wall facing the street with a two-storey wing set back, featuring simple architraves on the ground floor and ribbed architraves with corner blocks on the first floor, along with a cornice and panelled parapet. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Sussex Masonic Club 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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