The Old Vicarage (Brighton And Hove High School For Girls)

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW TEMPLE GARDENS 577-1/31/889 (South side) 20/08/71 The Old Vicarage (Brighton and Hove High School for Girls)

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Vicarage, now a school. 1834-5. Designed by Mr Mew and built by George Cheeseman, for the Rev HW Wagner. Stucco scored as ashlar, roof of tiles. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys except at the rear where there are 3 storeys, 5-window range to the east or principal front. In a now very simplified Tudor style. Flat-arched entrance with splayed reveals in gabled porch to north; all windows flat-arched with the reveals splayed to the north, and chamfered to the south and for the most part to the east. The east front consists of 3 gabled elements with recesses between; 2-storey bays with parapets under each gable; in the recessed part the first floor is set further back again and has canted bays with unusual centrally-recessed windows; the ground-floor windows have top-lights and original wooden glazing bars to north and south bays; window in south recess altered to a door; storey band to bays and recesses; first-floor windows have original glazing to central and southern bays, and continuous storey band; simplified cornice carried up over gables; stacks to either side of central bay; south front has Tudor-arched entrance between two 2-storey bays under gables, that to the west having original glazing to the ground floor; north front has scattered fenestration; west front much altered and added to, partly in stucco and partly in red brick. INTERIOR: original, or at least mid-C19, doors survive throughout most of the house, decorated with a motif of multiple recessed panels, and this motif is also found on the embrasures of some principal doors and windows; door architraves, formed of grouped circular shafts with corner blocks, also survive; open-well staircase to first floor with neo-Jacobean newel posts and turned balusters, moulded rail and closed string; Tudor-style fireplace in the penultimate room on the east side before the south corner, with 4-centred arch, frieze of quatrefoils, and octagonal engaged columns.

Listing NGR: TQ3021304746