36, EAST STREET
36, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380473
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 36, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 36, EAST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380473
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 36, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 36, EAST STREET
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:
- 36, EAST STREET
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 31153 04084
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW EAST STREET
577-1/64/229 (West side)
20/08/71 No.36
II
House, now restaurant. Late C18 or early C19. Cobbles, split
and squared flints, brick; brick dressings covered in pitch.
Roof of tile.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement. 2-window range. Steps up to
flat-arched entrance set under aedicule consisting of a pair
of Tuscan columns supporting an entablature with projecting
cornice. There is a full-height bay with tripartite windows,
which is segmental to the ground floor and canted above. All
bay windows are flat arched. Sashes of original design to
first floor: 6/6 to centre light and 4/4 to sides. The
spandrel to the first-floor bay is faced with brick and that
to the second floor is faced with tiles covered in pitch.
Brick quoin strips to corners and either side of the bay as
well as to jambs of all openings. The first- and second-floor
windows above the entrance are camber arched and blocked.
Guttered eaves to the main elevation. Of special note is the
treatment of the wall, which is composed of rough cobbles
alternating with split, squared flints. The basement wall is
made from cobbles mixed with brick. There are cobbles to the
right return. The stack on the right-hand return and the
adjacent wall is made from brick and dates to the C20. This
listing does not apply to the ground-floor verandah attached
to the front wall of the building.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Martha Gunn, the famous bathing "Dipper", lived here.
Nos 26-31 and 33-36 East Street (qv) face onto what is, in
effect, a small square formed by the widening of East Street
at its northern end, and form a group. Legend has it that this
square was built on the site of a small inlet of the sea.
Listing NGR: TQ3115304084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480662
- 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.
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