Number 53 and Attached Walls and Railings Numbers 17 and 19 and Attached Walls and Railings
NUMBER 53 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 53, GREAT COLLEGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380545
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 53 and Attached Walls and Railings Numbers 17 and 19 and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 53 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 53, GREAT COLLEGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380545
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 53 and Attached Walls and Railings Numbers 17 and 19 and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 53 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 53, GREAT COLLEGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 17 AND 19 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 17 AND 19, ABBEY ROAD
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:
- NUMBER 53 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 53, GREAT COLLEGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 17 AND 19 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 17 AND 19, ABBEY 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 32549 03873
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3203NE GREAT COLLEGE STREET
577-1/49/321 (North side)
No.53
and attached walls and railings
II
Includes: Nos.17 AND 19 and attached walls and railings ABBEY
ROAD.
Terraced houses. Mid C19. Stucco. Roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: composed of 2 blocks, that to corner has 2 storeys
with a 3-window range on the entrance elevation in Great
College Street and a 2-window range to return. Block to north
along Abbey Road has 3 storeys and a 2-window range; the whole
treated as if it were a tower to the main block. Italianate
style. Flat-arched entrance with overlight on Great College
Street; door of original design; entrance porch with piers in
antis; entablature with bracketed cornice and blocking course
above. To the right a single-storey canted bay with
tripartite, Tuscan pilaster strips at corners and joins with
wall; entablature with bracketed cornice and blocking course.
All windows flat arched. The ground floor has banded,
chamfered rustication. First-floor windows with projecting
sills. Cornice strip from which brackets spring to support
deep eaves; shields in the frieze between each pair of
brackets. Ground floor rustication and bracketed eaves
continue to return, where there is full-height canted bay with
tripartite windows to first floor, French doors to garden;
bracketed cornice between ground and first floors of bay only.
To right of bay round-arched entrance with a window above. On
Abbey Road a flat-arched entrance next to which is 2-storey
canted bay with Tuscan pilasters at corners and joins with
front wall, tripartite window to each floor; bracketed cornice
between the ground and first floor of the bay only; first
floor terminates in entablature. Cornice springing band for
broad bracketed eaves as on lower block. Stacks to centre and
party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Railings and low wall to front garden. Abbey Road house was
once the home of Henry Abbey, Mayor of Brighton in 1875.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 58).
Listing NGR: TQ3254903873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480785
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 58
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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