Numbers 38 and 39 and Attached Walls and Piers
NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380432
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 and 39 and Attached Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380432
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 and 39 and Attached Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, DEVONSHIRE 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:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, 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 31745 04083
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SE DEVONSHIRE PLACE
577-1/41/188 (East side)
20/08/71 Nos.38 AND 39
and attached walls and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
DEVONSHIRE PLACE
Nos 37 & 37A, Nos 38 & 39)
GV II
Synagogue, now gymnasium. c1825. Built as a synagogue, along
with Nos 37 and 37A (qv), and enlarged as a residence and
school room in 1837 by David Mocatta. Stucco. Roof obscured by
pediment.
3 storeys over basement. 4-window range. First- through
third-window ranges treated as a porticoed bay: giant Tuscan
pilasters rise from ground floor of banded rustication to
second-floor entablature; pediment above. Traces of an
inscription identifying the building as a synagogue still
visible on frieze of entablature. Entrance under the centre
bay of the portico is round arched with fanlight; this set in
plain aedicule which projects slightly from the front wall
plane. To either side is a segmental pointed-arch window. Bay
to right of portico has first-floor sill band and plain
entablature above. All windows are flat arched, those to the
second floor have projecting sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Walls and piers to stairs and area.
The synagogue was built to accommodate 50 people.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 167H).
Listing NGR: TQ3174504083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480561
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 167H
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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