1-15 Marina Arcade
| 1-15 Marina Arcade | |
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| LL ref: | 290 |
| Start date: | 1901 |
| Architect: | Durward Brown |
| Builder: | The Martin Wells Company |
| Original use: | Residential/commercial |
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Built in the Indian Moghul style in 1901, the Marine Arcade is of in red brick with finely detailed decorative brickwork, pointed and round arched openings, octagonal Islamic-style copper domes with a weather vanes, flagpole or finial - the arcade comprised commercial premises, the first of which to be occupied was the Bexhill Farm Produce Supply Company.
The Bexhill Observer described the store as ‘the interior has been stylistically arranged in Oriental style .. [resembling].. a luxurious Eastern palace’. Visitors were served refreshments in the Farmerie Tearooms and on an open air terrace. Farm goods brought direct from the producer’s farm at Little Common were on sale. There was also a ‘scientific palmist’ offering fortune telling.
There is a central courtyard (intended as a swimming pool) and along the esplanade is Channel View.
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The Albatross Club
