Architecture Group Visit - Day Trip to Brighton, Wednesday, 24th April, 9:30 am to 4.30pm
Wednesday, 24 April, 9:35 am or 9.45 am trains leave London Bridge for Brighton.
Meeting at 11.00 am at WH Smith, Brighton Station so that we can walk together to 13 Brunswick Square, Brighton BN3 1EH. This is a 25-30 minute walk.
Join us for our first day out travelling to Brighton for a four-part visit:
11.30 am to 1 pm: We will have a guided tour by Nick Tyson, the curator at The Regency Town House, a building of the 1820s by architect Charles Busby.
1.30 to 2.30 pm: Lunch at Bankers Fish and Chips, 116A Western Rd, Brighton BN1 2AB
3 pm: Visit to Embassy Court, of 1935 by architect Wells Coates, Kings Rd, Brighton BN1 2P
Walk back towards Brighton train station spotting some of the other landmarks and public spaces in town.
The Regency Town House at 13 Brunswick Square, is a grade I listed terraced home in the heart of Brunswick Town, a Georgian estate in the City of Brighton & Hove. Built in the 1820s, the Town House is today being developed as a heritage centre and museum, with a focus on the local architecture and social history between 1780s and 1840s. Our visit will include nearby no.10, which is currently being restored to its former glory by specialists and our team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers.
Embassy Court is an eleven-storey block of flats on the Brighton seafront, designed by Wells Coates and completed in 1935. It is amongst the most outstanding examples of pre-war Modernism in the UK, and has a grade II listed status. This beautiful, elegantly proportioned building contains seventy-three flats with direct sea views and is considered by many to be one of the coolest places to live in Britain. Its sculptural staircase and balconies echo Coates’ other building of 1934, the Isokon in Hampstead.
Tickets £20 available from Eventbrite. Travel and lunch is to be paid individually and separately.
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Numbers are limited. If you book a place and find that you are unable to come, please notify the Blackheath Society Office or Ana Sutherland. Email: office@blackheath.org
