New Venture Theatre Club And Attached Walls

TQ3004SW 577-1/38/23 20/08/71

BRIGHTON BEDFORD PLACE (East side) New Venture Theatre Club and attached walls (Formerly Listed as: BEDFORD PLACE Christ Church Schools (The Infant Welfare Centre))

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School, now theatre club. The building is in 2 parts: a single-storey wing to the street, dated 1841 in the frieze; and a large, 2-storey wing to the rear of c1890. The front wing of stucco and cobbles, the rear of brick and stucco, roofs of slate. 3-window range. EXTERIOR: the front wing is double-fronted with a recessed centre, and Tudor-Gothic in style. Pointed-arched entrance under a rectangular architrave and hoodmould, panelled door of original design; flanking flat-arched window with splayed reveals and hoodmoulds; frieze with recessed lettering 'CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLS ERECTED AD 1841'; central gable with stucco shield and flanking shaped gables with blind flat-arched windows under hoodmoulds; both returns have flat-arched windows as for street front and gables with shields. The later wing has one-window range either side of the first one; the windows have shallow cambered arches with gauged brick heads and keystones, triple sashes with top lights, and cornices to the first floor; external stacks between the windows with arched gulleys for rainwater, original rainwater goods and triangular pilaster strips; shaped gables flanked at the corners of the building by stucco consoles, coped with stucco and having intricate finials; shaped gables to north and south. INTERIOR: not inspected. Dwarf wall to street with square, stuccoed and corniced gate piers, either side of 1841 wing.

Listing NGR: TQ3013204381