Nos 2-48 and Attached Railings
44-47, WESTERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187570
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 2-48 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 44-47, WESTERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187570
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 2-48 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 44-47, WESTERN ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- NOS 2-48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2-48, LANSDOWNE PLACE
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:
- 44-47, WESTERN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 2-48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2-48, LANSDOWNE PLACE
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 29649 04464
Details
HOVE
TQ2904SE LANSDOWNE PLACE 579-1/23/79 (East side) 10/09/71 Nos.2-48 (Even) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWNE PLACE (East side) Nos.2-50 (Even))
GV II
Includes: Nos.44-47 WESTERN ROAD. Terrace of dwellings, some inserted shop fronts at northern end. c1830-40, partly refenestrated late C19, shop fronts added mid-late C20. Architect C.A.Busby. Stucco over brick, red brick facing to ground floor of former No.50, (now Nos 44-47 Western Road). Roofs concealed behind parapet. 4 storeys, full-height bow fronts with 3-window frontages, solid baluster parapets, moulded cornice, flat string courses, rusticated ground floors, sash windows with a variety of glazing bar patterns, moulded surrounds to first floor windows with individual cast-iron balconies, variety of doors, mainly half-glazed C20. Cast-iron railings returned from entrances along street frontage with gates to basement area. John Leech, the artist and cartoonist, lived at No.16 in 1849.
Listing NGR: TQ2967604527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365573
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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