Arts A and B Including Courtyard Pool Gardner Arts Centre is a Grade II* listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. University building. 8 related planning applications.

Arts A and B Including Courtyard Pool Gardner Arts Centre

WRENN ID
upper-gutter-azure
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
University building
Address
Arts A and B Including Courtyard Pool Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 9SH
OS grid reference
TQ 345 091
Coordinates
50.86636, -0.08946
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gardner Arts Centre at the University of Sussex is a university arts building designed by Sir Basil Spence, constructed between 1962 and 1966. The structure features red brick and bare board-marked concrete, with timber windows and flat roofs. To the south, there is a single-storey lecture theatre block with staggered walls and a tower made of paired slabs of concrete linked near the base, along with blind walls. The north side includes a courtyard surrounded by cloister walls on three sides, supported by segmental arches, with a pool on the fourth side. There are two-storey buildings to the east and west, and a four-storey range to the north, all exhibiting vertical articulation with strips of brick between the windows. The 1992 extension, known as Arts A, is not included in this listing. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Arts A and B Including Courtyard Pool Gardner Arts Centre 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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