Eastbourne Heritage Centre

The Eastbourne Heritage Centre is a building that originally served as a manager's house and flagstaff tower, later becoming a heritage centre. It was constructed in the Italianate style for the Devonshire Park and Baths Company, possibly designed by George Ambrose Wallis, who was the town's first mayor and an engineer for the Duke of Devonshire. There may also have been contributions from Henry Currie, the Duke's architect. The building is made of red brick with stuccoed dressings and features a slate roof.

Architecturally, it includes a three-storey octagonal corner tower and a lower two-storey villa with a basement, consisting of two bays. The tower has iron cresting on the roof, a paired bracket eaves cornice, and three types of windows: paired round-headed windows with blustrading on the second floor, rectangular windows with stops and a band on the first floor, and round-headed windows with stops and a band on the ground floor. The attached villa has a hipped roof with cast iron cresting, end quoins, and a paired bracket cornice. It features two rectangular sash windows with stops on the first floor and round-headed windows on the ground floor, along with a round-headed doorcase with a keystone on the south side, accessed by a flight of steps flanked by brick piers with pyramidal caps.

Inside, the original layout consisted of three rooms on each floor with a central staircase. However, around 1983, a staircase was added in the flag tower, creating a large room on each floor.

Historically, the Devonshire Park and Baths Company was established and funded by the 7th Duke of Devonshire as part of his development efforts in Eastbourne. The adjacent Devonshire baths, built in 1874, were the largest heated saltwater baths in the country at the time, although only the outer perimeter walls remain today.