Conservation Area (CA)
Hove Station CA
Local Listing Reference
LLHA0078
Description
Nonconformist chapel, built 1878 in a neo-classical style. Two storey over basement. Rendered, with rustications to the basement and raised ground floor levels. Squareheaded windows to the ground floor, and round-headed windows to the first floor. Pilasters rise through ground and first floor levels, to support a simple pediment with bulls eye window. Similar detailing follows through to the side elevation. The chapel was converted in c.1968 by Edward Cullinan. The conversion included retention of the rendered brick shell and timber floor, and the insertion of a new reinforced concrete top floor, supported on concrete columns penetrating through the basement level. A prominent asymmetric staircase was added to the front elevation, with a mirrored staircase to the rear. Source: Middleton 2002, http://www.edwardcullinanarchitects.com/, https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/33
A. Architectural, design and artistic interest
ii. A simple, but well proportioned nonconformist chapel building
iv. Conversion by well-known national architect Edward Cullinan. This was undertaken only a few years after the formation of Edward Cullinan Architects in 1965 and thus represents a particularly early example of his work. Cullinan’s work includes the Gridshell at the Weald and Downland Museum (nominated for the Stirling Prize), Fountains Abbey Visitors Centre and the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge).
C. Townscape interest
i. In the Hove Station Conservation Area, the building is atypical of the area due to its original use, architecture and overtly modern conversion elements
F. Intactness
i. The exterior of the original chapel survives relatively intact, with the new elements from the conversion of a distinctly different architecture
Date of Inclusion
2015
