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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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380631
- Date first listed:
- 13-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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380631
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480954
- 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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