Nos 20-38 and Attached Walls and Railings
NOS 20-38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 20-38, ADELAIDE CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187537
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 20-38 and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 20-38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 20-38, ADELAIDE CRESCENT
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187537
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 20-38 and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 20-38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 20-38, ADELAIDE CRESCENT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 20-38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 20-38, ADELAIDE CRESCENT
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 29330 04401
Details
HOVE
TQ2904SW ADELAIDE CRESCENT 579-1/22/2 (West side) 24/03/50 Nos.20-38 (Consecutive) and attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: ADELAIDE CRESCENT Nos.1-38 (Consecutive))
GV II*
Terrace forming one of 2 sides of Crescent. Designed 1830 by Decimus Burton but this range erected 1850-60 to a different ground plan with simplified detailing for the original developer, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. Stucco over brick, modillion eaves cornice and moulded strings, rusticated ground floors and slate roofs. Cyma curve in plan on sloping site, returned to south with Nos 35-38, No.20 abutting Nos.18-30 Palmeira Mansions (qv) to north. 5 storeys over basement, 3-window frontages, square-head windows except to ground floor where round-headed, mixed fenestration, mainly sash windows without glazing bars, French casements to first floor windows, cast-iron balconies continued around flat roofed pilaster porches, fanlights and sidelights to half-glazed doors. Cast-iron railings returned from entrances along street frontage with gates to areas. (Dale A: Fashionable Brighton 1820-1860: 1947-).
Listing NGR: TQ2933004401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365479
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dale, A, Fashionable Brighton 1820-1860, (1947)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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