Number 56 and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings
NUMBER 56 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 56, OLD STEINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380673
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Number 56 and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 56 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 56, OLD STEINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380673
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Number 56 and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 56 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 56, OLD STEINE
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 56 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND RAILINGS, 56, OLD STEINE
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 31246 04060
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW OLD STEINE
577-1/64/637 (West side)
11/04/85 No.56
and attached walls, piers and
railings
II
House. 1875, possibly an extension of an earlier structure;
external embellishments of early C20. Stucco. Parapeted roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic over basement. 5-window range;
2-window range return.
The main elevation is symmetrically disposed about a
round-arched entrance with fanlight, which is reached by a
short flight of steps. This entrance is topped by a broken
segmental pediment supported by a pair of console brackets;
the tympanum of pediment finishes in a scrolled finial.
A pair of round-arched windows to either side of the entrance,
the architraves with fluted keystone extends below sill to
enclose a spandrel panel which is decorated with volutes and
swags. The ornamental treatment of the ground floor dates to
the C20, and in a late C18 French style. The surface of the
ground floor, including that of the slightly projecting
aedicule, is treated as banded rustication, a feature which
could date either to the 1875 or the early C20 extension.
There are storey bands between all floors.
All upper-floor windows are flat arched; the first-floor
windows are floor-to-ceiling with eared architraves; each
second-floor window is topped by a cornice supported by a pair
of console brackets. Entablature with projecting cornice sits
below a balustraded parapet. On the ground floor of the return
is one round-arched window similar to those already described,
the rest are flat arched, each of those on the first and
second floors have a cornice.
There is a round-arched entrance set to the rear of the return
in a rusticated aedicule.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Cast-iron railings to area and piers.
Listing NGR: TQ3124604060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480997
- 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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