VICTORIA TERRACE

VICTORIA TERRACE, 1-7, KINGSWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187569
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: VICTORIA TERRACE
Statutory Address:: VICTORIA TERRACE, 1-7, KINGSWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187569
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: VICTORIA TERRACE
Statutory Address 1:: VICTORIA TERRACE, 1-7, KINGSWAY

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:: VICTORIA TERRACE, 1-7, KINGSWAY

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 28587 04414

Details

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TQ2804SE KINGSWAY 579-1/21/65 (South side) 10/09/71 Nos 1-7 (Consecutive) Victoria Terrace (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA TERRACE Nos.1-6 (Consecutive))

GV II

Incomplete terrace, porches demolished and area subsequently built out with shop fronts. Designed by Amon Wilds about 1830 but left unfinished; No.7 added soon after, first floor oriels added when ground floor obscured by shop fronts c1880, some alterations, particularly to shopfronts, mid-late C20. Render over brick, roofs concealed behind parapet. Greek Revival style. Plan: unfinished terrace, eastern 4 bays break forward slightly and are ornamented at eaves level, but there is no repeat at the western end; the next 8 bays west give no indication at eaves level as to the intended centre of the range, while the final 2 western bays are unornamented; the ground floor has been obscured by shopfronts. 4 storeys, 4:10 bays, 4 left with shallow pediment to centre 2 bays, flanked by volute and anthemion ornamentation to parapet of slightly lower outer bays with arch head windows, 2 square-headed windows with linked entablature to centre, similar window openings to rest of third floor set between pilasters, 9- and 6-pane sash windows, strongly moulded cornice with garlands to frieze, giant pilasters carry entablature with enclosed palmettes to capitals, 9-pane sash windows except to second and third bays left where there are narrow 6-pane windows between paired pilasters without capitals; first floor with enclosed shell heads above 12-pane sash windows, cast-iron balconies, replaced in second, third, sixth, seventh, tenth and eleventh bays by 3-light oriels carried on cast iron brackets, blind parapet; below are inserted windows not visible at street level because of the projecting shopfronts. The end-two-bays right have the same sash windows, but slightly larger, and the facade is unadorned. Single-fronted shop fronts below dentil moulded cornice, fluted pilasters with cavetto moulded frieze and pediment surmounted by ball finial; Nos 2 & 3 have been gutted. Rear elevation (south), very austere with window openings punched into the roughcast elevation without any mouldings. The street directory for 1850 lists only Nos 1-6. (National Monuments Record: Photograph).

Listing NGR: TQ2858704414

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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.