NUMBERS 1-8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1-8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-8, PERCIVAL TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380719
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-8, PERCIVAL TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380719
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-8, PERCIVAL 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 1-8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 1-8, PERCIVAL 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 32788 03589

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3203NE PERCIVAL TERRACE 577-1/49/672 (North side) 13/10/52 Nos.1-8 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: PERCIVAL TERRACE Nos.1-9 (Consecutive))

II

Terraced houses, now flats and hotel. 1845-1850. Built by the Cheesemans for W Percival Boxall of Belle Vue House who purchased the land from Thomas Cubitt; designed possibly by George Cheeseman Jr. Stucco. Roof obscured by blocking course. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and attic over half basement. 3 windows each. Regency Revival style. Each elevation treated as full-height and nearly full-width segmental bay. All houses except for end unit, No.1, follow a common type, a description of which follows. Up steps to entrance set at right party wall; flat arched with overlight, framed by Tuscan pilasters and entablature. To the left 2 windows set in base of banded rustication which continues around return. Entrance to No.3 now through No.4; both, together with No.5, now form Royal Promenade Hotel. Floor-to-ceiling first-floor windows open out on balcony, segmental in plan, supported by cast-iron brackets and enclosed by cast-iron railings. All windows are flat arched with architraves; each first- and second-floor opening return has, in addition, an entablature and cornice; sill of each second- and third-floor window supported by a pair of console brackets. Attic sill band in the form of dentil cornice. Centre window in attic storey blocked in all but Nos 1, 2 and 6. Sashes of original design: 6/6 and 4/4 to ground and first floors of Nos 1 and 2 respectively; 6/6 to second floor of Nos 1 and 2, top sashes only to Nos 7 and 8; 3/6 to third floor of Nos 1 and 2; 3/3 to attic of Nos 1-5 and 8. The end unit, No.1, had 2 flat-arched entrances on the return to Eaton Place, that near the corner has been filled in and is now a window. Both entrances set under prostyle porches with corner piers composed of coupled Tuscan antae, and responds. The entrance porch to the left is lower and broader than the one currently blocked to the left. The return has a 9-window range, all windows flat arched with projecting sills, those in the corner range are blocked. Each window in entrance range has tripartite architrave, the side lights blocked. To the left of each entrance rises a full-height segmental bay of 2 windows. Sashes of original design: 6/6 to ground floor; 4/4 with margin lights to first floor; 6/6 to third floor; and 3/3 to attic. Stacks to end and party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. Railings to stairs and areas. No.4 was home to Sir James Knowles, architect and writer, between 1903 and 1908; No.5 to the philosopher, Herbert Spencer. Designation originally applied to Nos 1-10; in November of 1987 No.10 collapsed after a large crater opened up in front of the unit. No.9 was demolished soon after. Nos 7 and 8 are vacant and in poor condition. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 99F).

Listing NGR: TQ3278803589

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Legacy System number:: 481043
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Sources

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Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 99F

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.