Global InformationListed buildings in Eastbourne information
There are more than 130 listed buildings in the town and borough of Eastbourne, a seaside resort on the coast of East Sussex in England. Eastbourne, whose estimated population in 2011 was 99,400,[1] grew from a collection of farming hamlets into a fashionable holiday destination in the mid-19th century; close attention was paid to urban planning and architecture, and the main landowners the Dukes of Devonshire placed restrictions on the types and locations of development. As a result, much of the resort retains its "basic motif" of late Regency and early Victorian houses, hotels and similar buildings,[2] and also has an extensive stock of 19th-century churches.[3] Coastal fortifications have been strategically important for centuries, and structures such as Martello towers and fortresses have survived to be granted listed status. A few older buildings—priories, manor houses and the ancient parish church—are also spread throughout the borough, whose boundaries take in the dramatic cliffs at Beachy Head and its two listed lighthouses.
In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.[4] English Heritage, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of this department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues.[5] There are three grades of listing status: Grade I, defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II*, "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, used for buildings of "special interest".[6]
As of February 2001, there were two Grade I listed buildings, seven with Grade II*-listed status and 100 Grade II listed buildings in the borough of Eastbourne.[7] Other buildings have since been newly listed or upgraded, and until May 2013 the statutory list had some anomalous entries whereby buildings which no longer existed had not been delisted. The most recent new listing, the former working men's club Leaf Hall, was approved in July 2017.[8]
- ^ "Population and households profile for Eastbourne (local authority)". East Sussex in Figures website. East Sussex County Council. 2012. Archived from the original on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
- ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 489.
- ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 486.
- ^ "Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (c. 9)". The UK Statute Law Database. Ministry of Justice. 24 May 1990. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ "What English Heritage Does". English Heritage. 2012. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Listed Buildings". English Heritage. 2012. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "Images of England — Statistics by County (East Sussex)". Images of England. English Heritage. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Leaf Hall, 51 Seaside, Eastbourne, East Sussex (Grade II) (1447081)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 July 2017.