18-34 and attached railings Palmeira Square
18-34 and attached railings, Palmeira Square, BN3 2JP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187581
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 18-34 and attached railings Palmeira Square
- Statutory Address:
- 18-34 and attached railings, Palmeira Square, BN3 2JP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187581
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 18-34 and attached railings Palmeira Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18-34 and attached railings, Palmeira Square, BN3 2JP
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:
- 18-34 and attached railings, Palmeira Square, BN3 2JP
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:
- TQ2939104541
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 March 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ2904NW
579-1/22/97
HOVE
PALMEIRA SQUARE (West side)
Nos 18-34 and attached railings
(Formerly listed as Nos.18-30 (Consecutive) and attached railings, previously listed as: PALMEIRA SQUARE Nos.1-30 (Consecutive))
10/09/71
GV
II
Terrace of dwellings. 1860-65. Stucco over rubble and brick, some structural cast-iron, hipped slate roofs behind moulded parapet. Italianate style.
Terrace forming one of two sides of the square, abutting Adelaide Crescent (qv) to south, No.18 returned to abut Nos 73-6 Western Road (qv).
Five storeys over basement, three-window frontage to each unit separated by quoins or pilasters forming 2:4:5:4:2 bays, all sash windows without glazing bars, some windows with blind boxes. Attic storey with three small square or round headed windows resting on moulded cornice, third floor three square-headed windows resting on flat string with Vitruvian scroll decoration, similar larger windows below with pilaster surrounds carrying entablature, segmental pediment to centre, first floor canted bay window with balustraded parapet resting on balcony with cast-iron balustrade carried on shaped stone brackets; ground floor tripartite window with twisted cast-iron mullions, cast-iron window box guards to some windows.
Flat-roofed paired Doric porches with balustrading, some with glass panels between columns as windbreaks held in place by wrought-iron supports. Entrances via short flights of steps, fanlights, doors with four recessed panels and key pattern decoration, some with inserted lights. Centre of terrace first and second floor windows built out to form two-storey loggia resting on three-bay colonnade of rusticated columns including a single porch. Cast-iron railings returned from entrances along street frontage.
Built for Sir Isaac Lyons Goldsmid as a continuation of Adelaide Crescent (qv), the north side of the 'square' is formed by Palmeira Mansions, Church Road (qv). Sir Isaac held the Portuguese title of Baron Palmeira, hence the name of the square.
Listing NGR: TQ2939104541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365602
- 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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