31 AND 32, CANNON PLACE
31 AND 32, CANNON PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380048
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 31 AND 32, CANNON PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 31 AND 32, CANNON PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380048
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 31 AND 32, CANNON PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31 AND 32, CANNON 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:
- 31 AND 32, CANNON 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 30551 04179
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SE CANNON PLACE
577-1/39/106 (West side)
13/10/52 Nos.31 AND 32
GV II
Terraced houses, No.31 now incorporating the frontage, in St
Margaret's Place, of the former Royal Newburgh Assembly Rooms,
of c1833, designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustine Busby
for Charles Wright, a bookseller and librarian. Stucco, roofs
obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement, one-window range to Cannon
Place, 7-window range to St Margaret's Place. In Cannon Place,
No.32 has a flat-arched entrance in outer bay with overlight;
all windows flat-arched; full-height segmental bay with
tripartite windows, bracketed balcony to first floor,
principal cornice to second floor, secondary cornice to third
floor; parapet. The Cannon Place front of No.31 is similar but
with the segmental bay only. In St Margaret's Place: portico
to 3 central bays; outer antae, the capitals decorated with
palmette ornament, inner engaged columns with capitals of
acanthus and palm leaf ornament, entablature and pediment with
dentil cornice; flat-arched entrance with architrave, cornice
and storey band over; all windows flat-arched; first floor
windows with architraves, others without; cornice and blocking
course.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3055104179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479522
- 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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