Octagonal Pavilion in Preston Park is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Pavilion.

Octagonal Pavilion in Preston Park

WRENN ID
roaming-glass-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1999
Type
Pavilion
Address
Octagonal Pavilion in Preston Park, Stanford Avenue, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 306 060
Coordinates
50.83938, -0.14617
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Octagonal Pavilion in Preston Park, located approximately 150 meters southwest of the clock tower, was built around 1890. It is constructed of brick, timber, and ornamental facing bricks in red and yellow, with a tiled roof. The pavilion has an octagonal shape with two long sides facing southwest and northeast.

There is a flat-arched entrance on the southwest side that is partly glazed. The structure features a wooden frame set on a brick plinth. Between the plinth and the windows on all sides, except for three, are courses of bricks that are moulded in a wide variety of patterns, with each course displaying a different design and minimal repetition. Decorative bricks also flank the entrance. The casement windows have chamfered top outer corners, and the pavilion is topped with a hipped roof that has gablets at the cardinal points.

Local climate

Octagonal Pavilion in Preston Park 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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