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|date=1893 | |||
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|builder=James Gold | |||
|use=Hotel | |||
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Built in 1893 by James Gold, Normanhurst was an hotel until 1968 when it closed and became a nursing home. It was named after the country house of the famous Brassey family, Normansfield Court at Catsfield. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836-1918) was the Liberal MP for Hastings (1868-1886), raised to the peerage in 1886, Governor of Victoria in Australia (1895-1900) and Mayor of Bexhill in 1907-08. | Built in 1893 by James Gold, Normanhurst was an hotel until 1968 when it closed and became a nursing home. It was named after the country house of the famous Brassey family, Normansfield Court at Catsfield. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836-1918) was the Liberal MP for Hastings (1868-1886), raised to the peerage in 1886, Governor of Victoria in Australia (1895-1900) and Mayor of Bexhill in 1907-08. | ||
Revision as of 14:54, 3 June 2025
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| LL ref: | 174 |
| Start date: | 1893 |
| Architect: | unknown |
| Builder: | James Gold |
| Original use: | Hotel |
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Built in 1893 by James Gold, Normanhurst was an hotel until 1968 when it closed and became a nursing home. It was named after the country house of the famous Brassey family, Normansfield Court at Catsfield. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836-1918) was the Liberal MP for Hastings (1868-1886), raised to the peerage in 1886, Governor of Victoria in Australia (1895-1900) and Mayor of Bexhill in 1907-08.
The five-storey building has an octagonal corner turret and ta wide triangular pediment on the Brassey Road elevation, decorated with an elebaoratly decorated plaster relief. It has three gables topped by traingular pedments on the De La Warr elevation which continue west in the form of Sandringham Court, Cantelupe Court and De La Warr Court all built at the same time.
On Brassey Road three-storey bay windows are linked at first floor level by a balcony sheltered by a roof supported on two columns, bottle balustrades topping the bays. The three blocks of flats have grand projecting porches with pedminets supported on paired columns. All four buildings retain their front boundary walls and substantial piers topped by urns or dentilled coping stones.
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Sandringham Court, Cantelupe Court and De La Warr Court.
