Built in 1912/13 to the designs of Samuel Bridgman Russell FRIBA, a Scottish architect based in London, as the Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School.
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Built in 1912/13 to the designs of Samuel Bridgman Russell FRIBA, a Scottish architect based in London, as the Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School. Became a sixth form college in 1975. Red brick college building in Neo-Early Georgian style, set prominently at the junction of Old Shoreham Road and Dyke Road. It has an impressive symmetrical frontage with a grand door stone surround with broken pediment and a copper roof-top cupola with weathervane. V-shaped plan to maximise light. Impressive iron gates with enamelled shields of Brighton, Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex. Large library extension added in 1935 by J L Denman.
ii BHASVIC is a good quality example of a secondary school building of the Edwardian period, being a form of red brick Neo-Early Georgian revival style that was quite typical of the period. v The building has a very conscious design aesthetic that takes full advantage of the prominent corner site.
ii BHASVIC is a good quality example of a secondary school building from the latter part of the first major period of national state secondary school building that had begun in the late 19th century.
ii The building makes a very positive contribution to the streetscene and relates well to the Edwardian housing of the streets on either side.
iii The building occupies a prominent triangular corner site at the junction of two main roads and is very much a local landmark, being of a much greater scale than the neighbouring housing.
ii It is a comparatively rare surviving original state secondary school in Brighton & Hove and is very representative of the period in its style and plan form.
i Externally generally intact with original features surviving. Modern steps and access ramp to front and rear extensions do not detract from original architectural form.
ii Remains in educational use as a sixth form college.
Pre-2015
