2040/D/LC 14th April 2021 MORGAN CARN ARCHITECTS Blakers House 0004/A/V4 79 Stanford Avenue 20th December 2017 Brighton BN1 6FA T: 01273 55 77 77 PROJECT NO: 2040 F: 01273 55 22 27 [email protected] PROJECT: Conversion to Residential Use www.morgancarn.com LOCATION: Stanmer House, Stanmer Park Road, Brighton Cross Homes (Sussex) Ltd. 23 East StreetDESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT LEWES East Sussex BN7 2LJ 01.00 Introduction: For the attention of Robin Cross 01.01 This pre-application enquiry relates to the proposed conversion of the upper floors and parts of the ground floor of Stanmer House, a Grade 1 Listed building dating from 1722, to residential accommodation with parts of the ground floor left as a café to allow continued public access to the building. Dear Robin, 01.02 The proposals also include the demolition of the later single storey kitchen wing (which is not part of the original building) and the construction of a two-storey extension in the rear Re: With Morgan Carncourtyard | Architects to asprovide 19 pt Rajdhaniadditional Medium residential text & accommodation.1.25pt vertical red line in R=200 G=0 B=0 Address line, tel no, email etc as 8pt Rajdhani Regular. Main body of letter as 10pt Rajdhani Regular Please find enclosed for settlement our invoice no: 2860 which covers the provision of architectural services for the preparation of marketing CGI’s for the development. Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us. Yours faithfully, Lap Chan Director MORGAN CARN | ARCHITECTS Aerial View of Stanmer House Morgan Carn Limited trading as Morgan Carn Architects. Registered in England and Wales. Company Number: 5141382. Registered Office: Blakers House, 79 Stanford Avenue, Brighton, BN1 6FA MORGAN CARN ARCHITECTS Blakers House 0004/A/V4 79 Stanford Avenue 20th December02.00 2017 Site Location: Brighton BN1 6FA 02.01 The site for this pre-application enquiry is Stanmer House which is located in StanmerT: 01273 55 Park 77 77, a historic parkland located to the north of the city centre of Brighton. F: 01273 55 22 27 [email protected] www.morgancarn.com 02.02 The Grade 1 listed building is part of the wider historic estate at Stanmer, set in landscaped parkland within the Stanmer Conservation Area, within Stanmer Park and within the boundary of the South Downs National Park. Stanmer Park is listed Grade II in English Heritage’s Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. Stanmer House forms Cross Homes (Sussex)the Ltd. focal point of the park, which includes the adjoining 19th century estate village, church, 23 East Street farm, garden buildings and the Grade II* listed stable block. LEWES East Sussex02.03 Stanmer House is a Grade I listed mansion, constructed by the French architect Nicholas BN7 2LJ Dubois in 1722 for Thomas Pelham. The architecture of the building is early Georgian. The main east facade of three bays was extended out in 1860. The walls are sandstone with For the attention of Robin Cross hipped slate roofs. 02.04 For details of individual heritage features of the house, please refer to the accompanying Heritage Statement by Chilcroft Heritage Planning. Dear Robin, 03.00 Site History: Re: With Morgan Carn | Architects as 19 pt Rajdhani Medium text & 1.25pt vertical red line in R=200 G=0 B=0 Address line,0 4tel.01 no, Aemail study etc of as the8pt Rajdhanihistoric mapsRegular. of Main the bodyarea ofhas letter revealed as 10pt that Rajdhani Stanmer Regular House and the area around the building appears on the map from 1875 and the house and its immediate Please find enclosedsurroundings for settlement ha ourve invoice remained no: 2860 largely which unchanged covers the until provision some of morearchitectural recent servicesdevelopment for the at the preparation of marketing CGI’s for the development. beginning of the 21st Century Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us. Yours faithfully, Lap Chan Director MORGAN CARN | ARCHITECTS Extract of the 1875 Historic Map Morgan Carn Limited trading as Morgan Carn Architects. Registered in England and Wales. Company Number: 5141382. Registered Office: Blakers House, 79 Stanford Avenue, Brighton, BN1 6FA MORGAN CARN ARCHITECTS Blakers House 0004/A/V4 79 Stanford Avenue 20th December 2017 Brighton BN1 6FA T: 01273 55 77 77 F: 01273 55 22 27 [email protected] www.morgancarn.com Cross Homes (Sussex) Ltd. 23 East Street LEWES East Sussex BN7 2LJ For the attention of Robin Cross Dear Robin, Re: With Morgan Carn | Architects as 19 pt Rajdhani Medium text & 1.25pt vertical red line in R=200 G=0 B=0 Address line, tel no, email etc as 8pt Rajdhani Regular. Main body of letter as 10pt Rajdhani Regular Extract of the current Ordnance Survey Map Please find enclosed for settlement our invoice no: 2860 which covers the provision of architectural services for the preparation 04.02of marketing Historic CGI’s England for the development.Listing Statement Should you have anyHeritage queries, pleaseCategory: do not Listed hesitate Building to contact us. Yours faithfully, Grade: I Listing Entry Number: 1380958 Date first listed: 02/11/1954 Lap Chan Director Statutory Address: STANMER HOUSE, STANMER PARK MORGAN CARN | ARCHITECTS Country house, now in the care of the local authority. Principally of 1722-7, though incorporating part of an earlier house, and with additions of the early C19 and of 1860. The architect was Nicholas Dubois, for Henry Pelham and later for his brother, Thomas Pelham, at a cost of »14,000. Brick, faced with cream-coloured sandstone ashlar to the principal (that is, north-east and south-east) fronts and to the immediate north-west return, the rest mostly rendered; roof of slate. EXTERIOR 2 storeys with attic; the entrance front, facing north-east, was originally of 7-window range with a centrepiece of 3-window range; an 8th bay was added to the north probably in 1860. Early C19 enclosed porch decorated with banded rustication and with Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature and blocking course, the blocking course raised at the centre; flat- arched entrance with overlight and double panelled doors of original design. Morgan Carn Limited trading as Morgan Carn Architects. Registered in England and Wales. Company Number: 5141382. Registered Office: Blakers House, 79 Stanford Avenue, Brighton, BN1 6FA MORGAN CARN ARCHITECTS Blakers House 0004/A/V4 79 Stanford Avenue 20th December 2017All windows flat-arched; the centrepiece projects slightly and is pedimented with an oculus in the tympanum; Brighton modillion eaves cornice. The additional northern bay matches the rest of the front and there is a single-storey BN1 6FA canted bay window to the return, with a pierced parapet; hipped roofs and corniced stacks. T: 01273 55 77 77 F: 01273 55 22 27 The south-east (or garden) front is of 9-window range and the central range of 5 windows has [email protected] additional attic storey; the cornice over this part was missing at the time of inspection. The courtyard plan whichwww.morgancarn.com used to incorporate parts of the earlier house has been demolished, leaving wings at right angles to each other. INTERIOR The entrance hall, of the 1720s and in ‘Board of Works’ style, is plastered from floor to ceiling in imitation of wooden, fielded panelling; 2 flat-arched doorways to either side with architraves, pulvinated frieze and dentil Cross Homes (Sussex)cornice Ltd. to overdoors, and 6-panelled doors with fielded panels; between these on the left side is a round- 23 East Street arched niche, and on the right, a massive fireplace and bust, recorded in the list description of 1986 but boarded up at the time of inspection in 1991; in the wall facing the entrance, a round arched niche on either side of a LEWES simpler, flat-arched doorway giving on to the staircase hall. The staircase hall is plastered more simply, the East Sussex plaster removed from the south-west wall at the time of inspection; open well stair by Nicholas Dubois with BN7 2LJ curtail step, newels square in plan and with Corinthian detailing, turned balusters, moulded, wreathed and ramped handrail, open string carved with foliage, and wooden panelled dado. Library to right of entrance hall, For the attention of alsoRobin by Dubois,Cross with fireplace boarded up at the time of inspection and egg-and-dart mouldings to bookcases and to architraves, reveals and panels of double doors to library extension in northernmost room, of c1860, which has egg-and-dart mouldings to the bookcases, cornice and paterae to ceiling moulding, and fireplace now boarded up; business room to rear, now divided in 2, with panelling of 1720s. Left of the entrance hall is the Little Drawing Room, panelled in wood with fielded panels and coved cornice, with south doorway having panelled reveals, and pulvinated bay leaf frieze and dentil cornice to overdoor; fireplace now boarded up. The Drawing Room beyond belongs to James Wyatt’s work for Thomas Pelham II in Dear Robin, 1775, with dado rail of acanthus ornament, elaborate neo-Classical frieze and ceiling decoration, architraves to doorways carved with guilloche ornament, the overdoors having rosettes in wreaths of husks, and the door Re: With Morgan Carnpanels | Architects carved with as flutes; 19 pt fireplace Rajdhani now Medium boarded up.text The & Dining 1.25pt Room, vertical of c1735, red hasline wooden in R=200 dado, G=0 ornate B=0 frieze Address line, tel no, ofemail festoons, etc asmodillion 8pt Rajdhani cornice and Regular. ceiling decorated Main body with of arabesques letter as 10ptand fruit; Rajdhani chimneypiece Regular flanked by bay- leaf ornament, fireplace now boarded up; at the south-east end, a screen of coupled Corinthian Columns distyle Please find enclosedin for antis; settlement door architraves our invoice and panels no: 2860carved which with egg covers-and-dart the mouldings,provision overdoorof architectural decorated services with festoons for the and dentil cornice.