NUMBERS 1-13 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES

NUMBERS 1-13 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES, 1-13, NORFOLK TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380608
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-13 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-13 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES, 1-13, NORFOLK TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380608
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-13 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-13 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES, 1-13, NORFOLK TERRACE

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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-13 AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES, 1-13, NORFOLK TERRACE

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 30136 04735

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW NORFOLK TERRACE 577-1/31/595 (West side) Nos.1-13 (Consecutive) and attached balustrades

GV II

Terraced houses. Mid-C19. Stucco, roofs of slate and tile where visible. EXTERIOR: Nos 1-6 of 3 storeys over basement with dormers, the rest 4 storeys; 3-window range except No.1 which is of 2-window range and No.8 which is of 5-window range and double-fronted. Nos 7-9 form a centrepiece, though not strictly central; the houses to either side are grouped in pairs. It is simplest to describe Nos 7-9 first: flat-arched porches flanked by pilasters with entablature, the pilaster details on No.8 now lost; recessed entrance with overlight, No.9 having double doors of original design with C19 engraved glass inserted; the ground floor has triple round-arched windows with sill brackets; panelled pilasters and archivolt; storey band and sill band with blank balustrading between; first-floor windows generally round-arched with architraves, those to inner windows of Nos 7 and 9 having panelled pilasters and archivolts and slim columns as mullions; No.8 has a tall, central, round-arched 2-light window with round-arched glazing bars and Vitruvian scroll to spandrel; moulded storey band running over this window as an archivolt; second- and third-floor windows generally flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves; bracketed cornice and blocking course in part; stacks to party walls. Nos 1-6 and 10-13: paired flat-arched porches with pilasters and entablature, except No.13 which has a round-arched porch with elaborate moulded archivolt and vermiculated keystone; recessed entrance with overlight, No.10 having double doors of original design. Ground-floor windows flat-arched with consoles to sills and moulded stucco architraves; Nos 3 and 5 have cast-iron window-guards; storey band; first-floor windows round-arched over entrance with bracketed sill and moulded stucco architrave, the other 2 flat-arched with sill stepped forward in centre and moulded stucco architrave; sill band with Vitruvian scroll to second-floor windows which are flat-arched with moulded stucco architrave, except that the 2 inner windows of Nos 2-6 are segmental-arched; third-floor windows to Nos 10-13 flat-arched with moulded stucco architrave; quoins where these houses project forward from the entrance bay; dentil to astragal lost in places; modillion cornice. Nos 1-6 have dormers in mansard roof. No.1 has a return in Temple Gardens with 2-storey wing, originally presumably for a porch, with quoins to first floor, modillion cornice and hipped roof; the rest of the elevation continues the detailing of the Norfolk Terrace front. INTERIOR: not inspected. Balustrades to steps and area with vase balusters, to all except No.1 and area of Nos 2 and 3.

Listing NGR: TQ3013604735

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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.