Exton House, Walls and Railings
EXTON HOUSE, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4, SECOND AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209667
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Exton House, Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- EXTON HOUSE, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4, SECOND AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209667
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Exton House, Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- EXTON HOUSE, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4, SECOND AVENUE
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:
- EXTON HOUSE, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 4, SECOND AVENUE
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 29155 04489
Details
HOVE
TQ2904SW SECOND AVENUE 579-1/22/102 (West side) No.4 Exton House, walls and railings
GV II
House, now flats. 1876-7. Yellow stock bricks, lavish use of moulded bricks for cornice, strings and other detailing, shallow pitched shipped slate roof, tall brick stacks with moulded caps in centre and on returns. Double-fronted. 3 storeys plus attic over basement, 3:1:3 bays, shallow bow left, canted bay right, segmental-headed attic dormers containing sash windows with one vertical glazing bar, all other windows without glazing bars, dentil moulded cornice with decorative frieze, windows in bays linked by continuous entablature, first floor centre window framed by open pediment with Ionic pilasters, ground floor windows with cills carried on shaped brackets, entrance with composite columns carrying shaped brackets and decorative frieze to entablature, original panelled door, fanlight and lamp. Approached by flight of steps with cast-iron railings. Brick walls with square piers and moulded caps fronting property. This unusual arrangement of one bow and one canted bay can also be found at No.6 Grand Avenue (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ2915504489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365609
- 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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