The Curzon Hotel and Attached Railings
THE CURZON HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8 AND 9, CAVENDISH PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380242
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Curzon Hotel and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE CURZON HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8 AND 9, CAVENDISH PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380242
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Curzon Hotel and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CURZON HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8 AND 9, CAVENDISH 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:
- THE CURZON HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8 AND 9, CAVENDISH 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 30237 04243
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SW CAVENDISH PLACE
577-1/38/121 (North side)
13/10/52 Nos.8 AND 9
The Curzon Hotel and attached
railings
GV II
Originally a pair of semi-detached houses known as Cavendish
Mansions, filling the end of Cavendish Place; now a hotel.
c1829. Stucco, roof obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement, 3-window range to each
house in Cavendish Place. Ground floor decorated with banded
rustication; entrance to former No.8 in 2-storey bow set back
to left: flat-arched porch entrance flanked by round-arched
windows with margin lights; curved doorcase behind that with
side- and overlights with decorative glazing; cornice; first
floor has 3 flat-arched tripartite windows with sashes of
original design; dentil cornice and blocking course. The
Cavendish Place front has round-arched ground-floor windows
set back in a round-arched panel of stucco; storey band; all
upper windows flat-arched; those to first floor with
architraves, pediment and individual balconies with cast-iron
railings; second-floor windows have architraves; dentil
cornice; attic storey; sashes of original design throughout;
secondary cornice and blocking course; stack to party wall.
Single-storey wings to east and west, that to the east
replacing the original porch in part, and detailed in keeping
with the main building.
INTERIOR: curved, open-well, cantilevered staircases to the
ground, first and second floors, at the west and east ends of
the building, with curtail step, wrought-iron balusters,
wreathed mahogany handrails and open, decorated string, that
to the east altered by having a lift inserted in the well.
Original, panelled, rectilinear architraves to many doors,
including sets of 3 curved architraves on the half-landings;
the westernmost room on the first floor, though now
partitioned, retains a pedimented doorcase, and an elaborately
moulded cornice decorated with anthemion ornament in part.
Cast-iron area railings with ornate finials.
(Carder T: The Encyclopedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3023704243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480039
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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