NUMBERS 1 TO 7 INCLUDING COLONNADE TO NUMBERS 6 AND 7

159-161, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380102
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 7 INCLUDING COLONNADE TO NUMBERS 6 AND 7
Statutory Address:: 159-161, NORTH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380102
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 7 INCLUDING COLONNADE TO NUMBERS 6 AND 7
Statutory Address 1:: 159-161, NORTH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 3- 8, NEW ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: NUMBERS 1 TO 7 INCLUDING COLONNADE TO NUMBERS 6 AND 7, 1-7, NEW ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 159-161, NORTH STREET
Statutory Address:: 3- 8, NEW ROAD
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 7 INCLUDING COLONNADE TO NUMBERS 6 AND 7, 1-7, NEW ROAD

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 31112 04252

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW NEW ROAD 577-1/40/566 (West side) 20/08/71 Nos.1-7 (Consecutive) including colonnade to Nos 6 and 7 (Formerly Listed as: NEW ROAD (West side) Nos.1-7 (Consecutive) (including colonnade in front) and 10 (The Colonnade Public House))

II

Formerly known as: Nos 3-8 (consec) & No 10 Colonnade Hotel (incl. colonnade in front) NEW ROAD. Includes: Nos.159-161 NORTH STREET. Terraced houses, now shops and offices. Early C19, refaced in the early C20; the Royal Colonnade added in 1823 by the architects Cooper and Lynn. Brick in Flemish bond with stucco dressings; corner houses faced in stucco. Roof parapeted. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic over basement. The following description begins with the units on New Road, which range gives the best impression of the original scheme, in which the units, of one window each, were paired. Each pair, Nos 2-3, 4-5, and 6-7, framed by a panelled giant pilaster, stretching from the first to attic floors, at the party walls; panelled capitals filled with an anthemion frieze and fountain motif; No.1 is paired with the short return of No.161 North Street. All the first-floor bays have flat-arched, tripartite windows: those to Nos 1-5 (consecutive) are shallow, segmental and dated to the early C20, when the Royal Colonnade was removed. Cooper and Lynn's scheme remains on Nos 6 and 7, which retain not only 2 bays of the Colonnade but also the broad semicircular bays. The Royal Colonnade stretched around the corner into North Street. The 2 bays of it which survive adequately record the design: composed of paired Ionic columns on socles, the bay in front of each unit was very broad and elliptical arched; the coupled columns were placed on the line of each party wall and spanned by a narrow round arch; the balcony thus formed was completely enclosed by cast-iron railings, which are extant on Nos 6 and 7; the elliptical arch which turned the corner to North Street was exceptionally broad. Between the bays to Nos 4 and 5 is a round-arched niche and, in the floors above, a blocked flat-arched window. All windows are flat-arched with projecting sills; the second-floor windows have, in addition, floating cornices of a blocky, Greek-Revival style, each supported by a pair of fluted console brackets. Continuous cornice and parapet above. In the centre of the pair formed by Nos 6 and 7 is a raised, panelled parapet. Some sashes of original design: the second floors of Nos 2, 4, 5, and 7 have 8 x 8 sashes, Nos 3 and 6 have the top sash of 8 panes only; attic of No.7 has 4 x 4 sashes. On North Street only No.159 preserves the original elevation outlined above: on the first floor of the party wall with No.160 is a round-arched niche, similar to those found on New Road, but half filled with the stucco cement render which covers the rest of the units to the corner; above this niche, one blocked and half-obscured window to each floor. The first floor of those stucco-rendered units is treated as banded rustication with full-height rusticated pilasters on party walls between Nos 160 and 161 and at corner of No.161. There is a rusticated storey band between second and attic floors of the rendered range. No.161 is the widest of the 3 North-Street houses and has a 2-window range, its second floor and attic having a 3-window range, the centre narrower than the sides. There is a projecting cornice to all rendered sections. An entablature to No.161 in curved corner range. The return of No.161 in New Road has a 2-window range which concludes, on the party wall with No.1 New Road, in a rusticated pilaster. Stacks to party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 3-8 (consec) were listed on 20.8.71.

Listing NGR: TQ3111204252

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.