2–3 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton

Pavilion Buildings leads northwards from Castle Square (the "commercial hub of the town from the late 18th century") to the southern edge of the Royal Pavilion estate. The Pavilion was built as a house for the Prince of Wales and later transformed into a royal palace upon his accession to the throne as King George IV. His successor King William IV commissioned new buildings at the south end of the estate in 1831, including offices, servants' quarters and guest bedrooms. In 1933, the owners of the Brighton & Hove Herald newspaper bought the land at the northwest end of Pavilion Buildings, closest to the Royal Pavilion's grounds, as the site of a new head office. The newspaper, Brighton's…

2–3 Pavilion Buildings is a "very stylish and well-detailed" Neo-Georgian building by John Leopold Denman, produced during a prolific period of the mid-1930s when he was responsible for several similar buildings in Brighton.|group=note}} Cribb also worked with Denman on the offices at nearby 20–22 Marlborough Place (1933), where the window surrounds are adorned with carvings.