Nos 20-32 and Attached Railings
NOS 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, BRUNSWICK TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187546
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 20-32 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, BRUNSWICK TERRACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187546
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 20-32 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, BRUNSWICK TERRACE
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 20-32 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-32, BRUNSWICK TERRACE
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:
- TQ2964804288
Details
HOVE
TQ2904SE BRUNSWICK TERRACE 579-1/23/24 Nos.20-32 (Consecutive) 24/03/50 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: BRUNSWICK TERRACE Nos.7-32 (Consecutive))
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Terrace of dwellings, now subdivided into flats, and hotel. 1824-8, alterations to attic space early-late C20. Architects Amon Wilds and C.A.Busby. Stucco over brick exposed on left return, slate roofs. Terrace forming the south return of the west side of Brunswick Square (qv). 3 storeys plus attic over basement, 3:12:9:12:3 bays forming temple front with wings, with attic storey; 3 bays to each unit, mixed glazing bars; pedimented centre tablet inscribed Brunswick Terrace in raised lettering with viewing platform fronting cupola, attic storey to outer bays, otherwise rebuilt dormer windows set in roof space above moulded full entablature carried on giant Corinthian columns centre and outer bays, others pilasters with Corinthian capitals and pilaster quoins, individual cast-iron balconies to first floor windows, rusticated ground floor, some blind boxes surviving, square-headed entrances, some original 2x5 panel doors surviving, some with bootscrapers beside. Left return onto Lansdowne Place: exposed brick with rendered flat string courses and parapet; 3 storeys plus attic over basement, 3 bays, central full-height bow with tripartite sash windows, continuous first floor balcony to the bow, balcony renewed C20, carried on 3-bay Greek Doric colonnade, ground floor central sash window without glazing bars flanked by 2 x 6-panel doors (not in use) approached by shallow flights of steps, blind bay to right, mixed glazing left. The original bottle balustrading and coping to the parapet are incomplete. Cast-iron railings fronting street and returned to entrances. No.26, the centre of the terrace, was once the home of Philip Salomons (1796-1867), brother of Sir David Salomons, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London; the pepper-pot cupola contained a private synagogue and later a museum of Jewish history. (Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England: Spector D: Brighton Jewry Reconsidered: 1987-1988).
Listing NGR: TQ2961104297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Spector, D, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England in Brighton Jewry Reconsidered, (1987-1988)
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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