161 Edward Street

161, Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JB

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380489
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
161 Edward Street
Statutory Address:
161, Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JB
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380489
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
161 Edward Street
Statutory Address 1:
161, Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JB

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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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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:
161, Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JB

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 31513 04205

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 July 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ3104SE
577-1/41/269

BRIGHTON
EDWARD STREET (South side)
No 161

(Formerly listed as No.161 The Thurlow Arms)

20/08/71

II

Terraced house, now public house. Early C19. Ground floor converted to public house in the mid to late C19. Mathematical tiles and brick in Flemish bond, painted; stucco to ground floor and return. Roof of tile.

EXTERIOR: two storeys over basement, with one flat-arched dormer; return three storeys over basement. Three-window range; return has two window-range. Two flat-arched entrances with overlights to public house, one at the corner, the other in the centre of the main elevation. To either side of centre entrance is a rectangular bay with flat-arched windows. Framing the bays and entrances are Tuscan pilasters, the area between which panelled; the spandrel fronts of the centre window in the bays are also panelled. Corner entrance framed by paired Tuscan pilasters. In the return, just next to the corner entrance three bays similar to those on the main elevation. Original elevation visible above public house front; in centre of first floor a camber-arched window with gauged brick lintels; to either side, on axis with the ground-floor bay is a segmental bay of mathematical tile; tripartite, flat-arched windows; all first-floor windows have sashes of original design; parapet with plain coping above. First floor of return has flat-arched windows, that near the corner blocked; a similar window in the gable of the gambrel roof. The upper floor windows as well as the parapet coping and end wall stacks have continuous architraves, those to the windows are chamfered with run out stops near the corners of the window. Stacks to end and party walls.

INTERIOR: to public house has been much altered.

Listing NGR: TQ3151304205

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Legacy System number:
480705
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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