Norfolk Resort Hotel

Built in 1824 as the Norfolk Arms

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

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The Norfolk, one of Brighton's leading hotels, was built in 1824 as the Norfolk Arms, a three-storey inn rising to four floors in the centre, with a balcony and verandah on Ionic columns. In 1864-6 however, it was entirely rebuilt by Horatio Goulty in a Renaissance style with five storeys and iron balconies; note the Norfolk lion head figurines on the second floor balconies.
In 1969 AVP Industries, having been refused permission to replace it with a block of flats, sold the Norfolk to the Feld family. Now known as the Norfolk Resort, and a listed building, the hotel underwent a £2 million refurbishment in the early 1980s and has 117 rooms plus the Rafters night-club in the superstructure. An indoor swimming-pool opened in November 1985, the first hotel pool in the town centre, while at the rear a development of rooms around an ornamental lake opened in September 1985 on the site of the hotel garage. This site was originally occupied by Young's Livery Stables, and leads to Norfolk Buildings via an arched gateway with a horse-head figure and the inscription 'Rebuilt 1875'.

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