1899 – The Bay Hotel, Pevensey Bay, Sussex

“THIS hotel is now being erected fronting the sea in Pevensey Bay, near Eastbourne, for Mr. C. R. Holmes. The exterior walls are to be faced up to the first floor with red bricks from Tunbridge Wells, and the upper portion is to be rough-cast. The dressings are to be in Portland stone and fine tubbed bricks. The roof is to be covered with sea-green slates. The internal walls and partitions are to be plastered with Serapite plastering, and all the woodwork in public rooms is to be finished in green oil-stain, varnished.

All external walls are to be built hollow. The billiard-room is to have an open-timbered roof. There are to be fifteen bedrooms, with bathrooms on the first and second floors, besides three public sitting-rooms, convertible, by the removal of sliding partitions, into a large ball- or concert-room on second floor. The accommodation on the ground floor comprises large dining-room, private sitting- room, private bars, saloon – bar, bar-parlour, billiard – room, kitchen, &c. The basement is devoted to rooms for servants, and for cellarage, &c. The hotel will be fitted with all modern requirements, including lifts, electric bells, salt- water baths, &c. A large piece of ground between the hotel and the sea is to be laid out for tennis, &c. The hotel is being erected to supply a longfelt want in Pevensey I3ay, which place is visited by increasing numbers of visitors during the summer months, and has been designed to harmonise with other houses now being erected in the bay by the architect, Mr. Frank J. Brewer, of Richmond, Surrey, and Buckingham-street, Adelphi. The contractor for the building is Mr. James Martin, of Eastbourne.”