Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent
17-24, PARK CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380697
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent
- Statutory Address:
- 17-24, PARK CRESCENT
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- Date:
- 2007-07-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/16551/32
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380697
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17-24, PARK CRESCENT
- Statutory Address 2:
- 26-32, PARK CRESCENT
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:
- 17-24, PARK CRESCENT
- Statutory Address:
- 26-32, PARK CRESCENT
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:
- TQ3169005384
Details
TQ3105SE
577-1/28/648
24/07/69
BRIGHTON
PARK CRESCENT
(North side)
Nos.17-24 AND 26-32 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK CRESCENT
Nos 1-23 (consec), Nos 27-48 (consec))
GV
II*
Terraced houses. Built over several years from 1849. By Amon
Henry Wilds. These houses form the curved, 3-storey range in
Park Crescent; Nos 24 and 26 date from 1983 and were built in
place of Nos 24, 25 and 26 which were destroyed by bombing in
1942; they follow the design of the terrace in their details
and are included in the listing for group value. Stucco, roofs
of slate.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement, 3 windows each. The
standard design is: an entrance bay set slightly back with
that of the adjacent house; flat-arched entrance with moulded
architrave, moulded cornice, overlight and panelled door of
original design; quoins between entrance bay and the rest; all
windows flat-arched, with moulded architraves and the middle
window on the first floor blank; sashes generally of original
design, 4/4 on the ground and first floors, 2/2 on the second
floor; console brackets to eaves with frieze of wreaths
between; deep eaves; ridge and front stacks. Cast-iron
railings to area with spearhead finials. The garden front
consists of a main block of 3 storeys whose cornice and eaves
break into a 3-storey 'tower' like that on Nos 1-16 and 33-48
(qv), having bracketed eaves, wreathed cornice and pedimented
gables.
Features of note on individual houses are: Nos 17-18, 20, 23,
27-28 and 32 do not have blocked central windows on the first
floor; No.19 has central window on second floor partially
blocked; No.21 has upper panels to door glazed; No.22 has an
oval window inserted in central first-floor window; No.29
upper panels to door glazed, and central first-floor window
altered.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3169005384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481021
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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