Garage, 21 Station Road
| Garage, 21 Station Road | |
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| LL ref: | 133 |
| Start date: | 1924 |
| Architect: | Wall Callow and Callow |
| Builder: | unknown |
| Original use: | Commercial |
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This is a rare example of a surviving 1920s motor car garage premises. Caffyn’s was a large car sales and repair company founded in Eastbourne in the 19th Century.
Built in 1924 and designed by Wall Callow and Callow[1], the art deco style façade on Station Road reflected the very latest architectural trend when it was erected. It has a stepped pediment above a giant arch and a concave frontage at ground floor level. The portal was originally flanked by display windows and the arch contained an elegant fanlight window.
The company also had a showroom on Devonshire Road (now an Iceland store). They closed the Station Road site in 1980 and moved to a new showroom on the newly-built bypass, King Offa Way in 1982 (now the Sussex Bed Centre).
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- ↑ Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, Saturday March 31 1923, Page 8