New Big Sleep Hotel for Eastbourne

• Posted by Karyn Middleton on 28th Jan ’08 at 12:10 GMT
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Evans Jones LLP has been appointed to undertake the architectural and project management services for the third Big Sleep Hotel scheduled to open in Eastbourne in time for the Ladies Tennis Tournament in June 2008.

Having worked on the second Big Sleep Hotel in Cheltenham a little over a year ago, Evans Jones will once again be working with Cosmo Fry, the owner of the Big Sleep Hotels, to convert a rather tired and unloved hotel formed out of three seafront Victorian buildings which, over the years, have been knocked together, altered and extended to create a 48 bed hotel.

John Everitt, Head of Architecture at Evans Jones commented: “The hotel in Eastbourne provides us with an opportunity to further develop the Big Sleep template that was used in Cheltenham and adapt it to suit a different building type.”

The project will involve gutting the existing hotel and taking the building back to its original structural form. Many of the light-weight walls and partitions which were added in the 70s and 80s will be removed as will all of the existing bathrooms and interior décor. The hotel will then be put back together using the Big Sleep’s individual style including:

• modern minimalist décor
• a fresh and ‘clean’ interior
• contemporary fittings throughout

John Everitt continued: “In many ways, although the building is already being used as a hotel this project is more complicated than the building in Cheltenham where we had a blank canvas to start with. In Cheltenham the rooms were largely identical, stacking up from floor to floor. In Eastbourne the rooms are all unique, with varying sizes and ceiling heights. The services are already running though the building and this will inform on the location of bathrooms etc so there are far more restrictions on what we can and can’t do with the building.”

The Big Sleep Hotel in Eastbourne will be designed to cater for the anticipated market in the area, and it is hoped that it will establish the ‘Big Sleep by the Sea’ sub brand of the Big Sleep Hotel. Further sites are already being considered in Brighton, Bournemouth, Southampton and Exeter.

Press enquiries:

John Everitt, Evans Jones
Tel. 01242 531415
Web site www.evansjones.co.uk
Email enquiries@evansjones.co.uk