Numbers 16, 17 and 18 and Attached Railings

NUMBERS 16, 17 AND 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 16, 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380429
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
Numbers 16, 17 and 18 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 16, 17 AND 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 16, 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380429
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Numbers 16, 17 and 18 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 16, 17 AND 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 16, 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE PLACE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 16, 17 AND 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 16, 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE 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 31726 04103

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SE DEVONSHIRE PLACE
577-1/41/185 (West side)
20/08/71 Nos.16, 17 AND 18
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
DEVONSHIRE PLACE
Nos 10 & 11, Nos 16-18 (consec),
No.36, Nos 40, 41 & 41B)

GV II

Terraced houses. c1825. Probably designed by Amon Wilds and
Charles Augustin Busby. Roofs of Nos 16 & 17 slate, of No.18
tile.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and dormers over basement. 2 windows each.
Stairs up to round-arched entry with fanlight to door which is
framed by fluted Tuscan pilasters and entablature; entrance to
No.17 set, in addition, in plain aedicule, with panelling to
the arch spandrels. Entrance to No.18 set under porch
consisting of attached and fluted Ionic columns and
entablature. Chamfered rustication to ground floor.
No.18 has a full-height bay, canted to the ground floor and
segmental above; the windows flat-arched and tripartite. Nos
16 & 17 have a segmental bay to first and second floor only;
to either side of the latter's rise fluted Ionic pilasters.
Window on the first and on second floor to right of the bay,
over entrance. All windows flat-arched. First-floor balcony to
No.16 with railings of cast-iron. Balcony to first-floor bay
only of No.18; cast-iron brackets and railings. Cornice and
blocking course, partial to No.16, where the bay stops just
short of the original cornice line. 2 flat-arched dormers to
each. Stacks to party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Railings to stairs and areas.



Listing NGR: TQ3172604103

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
480558
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.

Ordnance survey map of Numbers 16, 17 and 18 and Attached Railings

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