Collington House, 3 Collington Rise
| Collington House, 3 Collington Rise | |
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| LL ref: | 118 |
| Start date: | 1912 |
| Architect: | unknown |
| Builder: | unknown |
| Original use: | School |
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Built in 1912 as St Celine School founded by Miss Salters Byrne, it was taken over by Collington Rise Preparatory School for boys in 1923 who occupied it until 1940 when the school was evacuated to Cornwall, never to return.[1]
After the war the Co-Operative Youth took on the building as a holiday guest house. It was also the base during this time for the Sussex Association of Boys’ Clubs. In 1962 it was taken over by the Workers Travel Association, an offshoot of the Workers Education Association and carried on in this role up to 1970 when it was sold to Reg Larkin a local developer. He converted the property into housing association flats after selling it to Gwen Emslie, a small private developer and also a local councillor in Bexhill.[2]
It is an attractive three-storey building with both neo-Georgian and arts and crafts influences in the spirit of Edwardian garden suburb architecture of Hampstead and Letchworth. It has brown brick elevations with ref window headers and quoins, mansard roofs with gables, hipped-dormers and tall chimneys, recessed central porch with stained glass windows over.
A chapel was built into the playing fields for the boys school around 1925 (seen behind in the aerial photo), now a residence known as Birkdale Hall.