56, FIRST AVENUE, 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE

1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280737
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: 56, FIRST AVENUE, 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
Statutory Address:: 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280737
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: 56, FIRST AVENUE, 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: 56, FIRST AVENUE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
Statutory Address:: 56, FIRST AVENUE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29306 04617

Details

HOVE

TQ2904NW FIRST AVENUE 579-1/18/45 (East side) No.56

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-7 ST JOHN'S PLACE. Mews, now garages, hairstylists and dwellings. c1872, altered subsequently, shopfront of hairstylists inserted late C20. Yellow stock bricks, brick quoins, moulded bricks and stone dressings, hipped slate roofs with overhanging eaves carried on shaped brackets, large brick stacks with moulded coping rising from eaves on main elevation and flanking gable to first floor window. U-plan, originally symmetrical blocks flanking narrow entrance to mews' yard. The southern range is the more complete; 2 storeys, 1:3 bays, originally lit first floor only by segmental headed sash window with original glazing bars, moulded surround and hoodmould, surmounted by shallow gable, inner bay set back slightly and lit ground floor by inserted sash window, 3-bay blind arcade with segmental heads and keystones right, inserted doorway second bay left. Northern block with pvc first floor window and one bay extension on north front, 3 inserted plate glass windows and one inserted glazed door. Some original sash windows and doors survive in mews yard. Shown on the OS map of 1878 and probably part of the original layout of the Stanford estate by James Knowles.

Listing NGR: TQ2930604617

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Legacy System number:: 365526
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.