Princes Hotel and Attached Railings

PRINCES HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAND JUNCTION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380519
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
Princes Hotel and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
PRINCES HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAND JUNCTION ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380519
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Princes Hotel and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
PRINCES HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAND JUNCTION ROAD

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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:
PRINCES HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAND JUNCTION ROAD

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 31236 03881

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NW GRAND JUNCTION ROAD
577-1/46/1142 (North side)
20/08/71 Princes Hotel and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
GRAND JUNCTION ROAD
Palace Pier Hotel)

II

Terraced houses, now an hotel. c1840. Stucco, roof obscured by
parapet.
4 storeys and attic over basement. 13 windows overall. The
front to Grand Junction Road consists of 2 segmental bays
either side of the entrance; the curve of the eastern bay is
continued round to form a wholly curved front in Pool Valley.
All windows flat-arched, with moulded architraves except to
the attic storey, the 4th, 8th and 10th from the west blank to
all storeys. Flat-arched entrance in Grand Junction Road has
Doric pilasters, the entablature now obscured; flat-arched
entrance in Pool Valley flanked by single-storey bay windows.
The first floor has windows of piano nobile proportions, a
continuous bracketed balcony with cast-iron balustrade and
pediments alternating with floating cornices over each of the
windows; storey band between 2nd and 3rd floors; dentil
cornice; subsidiary cornice to attic storey; parapet.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Cast-iron railings to area with halberd finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3123603881

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
480751
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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