NUMBERS 12 TO 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 12 TO 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12-18, DORSET GARDENS

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380445
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 12 TO 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 12 TO 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12-18, DORSET GARDENS

User submitted image — Uploaded by Michael Schouten This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2005-08-02
Reference:: IOE01/13398/24
Rights:: © Lorna Freeman. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380445
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 12 TO 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 12 TO 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12-18, DORSET GARDENS

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 12 TO 18 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12-18, DORSET GARDENS

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 31568 04118

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SE DORSET GARDENS 577-1/41/200 (East side) 20/08/71 Nos.12-18 (Consecutive) and attached railings

II

Terraced houses. Late C18. Stucco, except for No.15 which is faced in cobbles and has painted brick dressings and quoin strips, and No.17 which has painted brick quoin strips. Roof of Nos 12, and 14-18 of tile, of Nos 12A of slate. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and dormer over half basement. All have one-window range except for No.16 which has a 2-window range. Flat-arched entry with overlight filled with original decorative glazing bars at Nos 12A and 14; this framed by pilasters, those to Nos 12A, 14, and 18 are panelled and of the Tuscan order, with brackets springing from capitals to support a porch formed from raking cornices only; Nos 12, 15, have continuous pilaster strips which swell into brackets supporting porches similar to the others. The entrance to No.16 is the most elaborate of the group: round arched with plain archivolts and fanlight of decorative glazing; the framing Tuscan pilasters are panelled; above the capitals spring a pair of broad volute brackets which support a raking cornice porch roof. Beside the entries to Nos 12A and 16 is canted bay with tripartite windows; in No.16 this bay supports a first-floor balcony currently under restoration. Bay to No.17 canted and full height, with tripartite windows. Otherwise all windows to right of entrance on the ground floor are tripartite. Above entrance to No.16 is a single window on the first and second floor each. All windows flat arched except for ground- and first-floor windows of No.15 which are camber arched. Ground floor of No.18 has banded, chamfered rustication and a storey band between the first and second floors. Nos. 12A, 14, and 18 have cornice and parapet, Nos 12 and 17 parapet only, and Nos 15 and 16 blocking course. One flat-arched dormer each. Stacks to party walls. Railings to stairs and areas. Cast-iron flower guards to ground floor windows of Nos 15 and 16. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 167F).

Listing NGR: TQ3156804118

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 480593
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 167f

Legal

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