SOUTHDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS

SOUTHDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 51, OLD LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1380631
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 51, OLD LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1380631
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 51, OLD LONDON ROAD

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:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 51, OLD LONDON 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 30201 08761

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3008NW OLD LONDON ROAD, Patcham 577-1/16/1015 (South West side) 13/10/52 No.51 Southdown House and attached walls, piers and railings (Formerly Listed as: OLD LONDON ROAD, Patcham No.51 Southdown House) (Formerly Listed as: OLD LONDON ROAD, Patcham Wall in front of No.51 (Southdown House))

GV II*

Detached house. Early C18. Dressed flint with cobbles, and dressings of red brick, roof of slate. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement with dormers in attic, 5 windows, double-fronted. Brick quoins. Flat-arched entrance with overlight and 6-panelled door; doorcase with Gibbs surround with pediment over; all windows flat-arched; base of cobbles with segmental arches over basement windows; brick band; then dressed flint with a brick storey band over the ground floor windows, which have heads of gauged brick and red brick dressings, as do the first-floor windows; glazing bars renewed; storey band; parapet with diaper patterns in red brick; 3 flat-arched dormers; end stacks. Left-hand return of flint, tile-roofed wing to south-east. INTERIOR: has fine early C18 staircase with curtail step, columnar principal newel, moulded tread ends, wreathed and ramped mahogany rail and 3 balusters to each step, the central baluster plain, the others twisted, open string and panelled dado. Dwarf cobbled wall to street surmounted by wooden railings; brick piers at either end with ball finials and curved walls of brick and flint running between them and the corners of the house. The wall to street was listed on 20/08/71.

Listing NGR: TQ3020108761

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Legacy System number:: 480954
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.