1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE, 56, FIRST AVENUE
1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280737
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE, 56, FIRST AVENUE
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280737
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE, 56, FIRST AVENUE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 56, FIRST 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:
- 1-7, ST JOHN'S PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 56, FIRST 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 29306 04617
Details
HOVE
TQ2904NW FIRST AVENUE 579-1/18/45 (East side) No.56
GV II
Includes: Nos.1-7 ST JOHN'S PLACE. Mews, now garages, hairstylists and dwellings. c1872, altered subsequently, shopfront of hairstylists inserted late C20. Yellow stock bricks, brick quoins, moulded bricks and stone dressings, hipped slate roofs with overhanging eaves carried on shaped brackets, large brick stacks with moulded coping rising from eaves on main elevation and flanking gable to first floor window. U-plan, originally symmetrical blocks flanking narrow entrance to mews' yard. The southern range is the more complete; 2 storeys, 1:3 bays, originally lit first floor only by segmental headed sash window with original glazing bars, moulded surround and hoodmould, surmounted by shallow gable, inner bay set back slightly and lit ground floor by inserted sash window, 3-bay blind arcade with segmental heads and keystones right, inserted doorway second bay left. Northern block with pvc first floor window and one bay extension on north front, 3 inserted plate glass windows and one inserted glazed door. Some original sash windows and doors survive in mews yard. Shown on the OS map of 1878 and probably part of the original layout of the Stanford estate by James Knowles.
Listing NGR: TQ2930604617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365526
- 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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