NUMBERS 1-11 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIER AND RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1-11 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIER AND RAILINGS, PORTLAND PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380722
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-11 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIER AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-11 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIER AND RAILINGS, PORTLAND PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380722
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-11 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIER AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-11 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIER AND RAILINGS, PORTLAND PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-11 AND ATTACHED WALL AND PIER AND RAILINGS, PORTLAND PLACE

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District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32466 03736

Details

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TQ3203NW PORTLAND PLACE 577-1/48/676 (West side) 13/10/52 Nos.1-11 (Consecutive) and attached wall, pier and railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c1826. Designed by Charles Augustin Busby. Stucco with stock brick in Flemish bond; artificial stone. Roof to Nos 3-4, 6-7, 9, and 10 of slate; No.1 of asphalt shingles; the rest obscured by parapet. EXTERIOR: Nos 2, 5, 8, and 11 three storeys and attic over basement, the rest 3 storeys with dormers over basement. 3 windows each. The front of No.11 at the north end of the row curves for 2 bays and sets back to the depth of one bay. The entire row is given a monumental character by the treatment of every third unit, Nos 2, 5, 8, and 11, as porticoed bays, the front walls set forward from the rest with a giant pilastrade of the Composite Order rising through the first and second floors; each also has a complete entablature with an attic and blocking course above. The entrances and ground-floor windows of these porticoed bays are round arched, the doors with fanlights; the rest are flat arched. Several features help to bind the units into a single composition: ground floors of banded rustication, French windows to first floors, storey bands between first and second floors, and a common cornice to the second floor of each, the last much altered on Nos 6-7, and 10; projecting sills to all windows; originally tawny stock brick walls would have unified the composition further, but several fronts are now painted. No.5 has been altered more than the rest, having lost many original features. There are first-floor balconies with cast-iron railings and brackets to Nos 1, 6-7, and 9-10; first-floor windows of the rest have cast-iron window guards. The end unit, No.11, is the most elaborate and unusual in plan; the entrance bay is set back behind a curving front of 2-window range; the Composite pilasters are applied to each corner. The entrance is set under a first-floor balcony supported on a large fluted bracket; to the right of the entrance is a low wall emblazoned with an heraldic ornament, terminating in a moulded and chamfered pier with scroll finial. Glazing of original design to ground floor of No.8; first floors of Nos 4, 6-9, and 11; second floors of Nos 1, 4, 6, 8-9, and 11; and attics or dormers of Nos 1, and 6-9. The right return of No.11 is executed in glazed black, red, tan and blue brick, and reproduces the design of the main elevation as a colour diagram. Dormers to units are segmental arched. Stacks to party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. Railings to stairs and areas. This Terrace, which forms a most important group with Nos 127, 128-133A Marine Parade (qv) and Marine Square (qv), was Busby's last work in Brighton and built on land owned by Major Villeroy Russell.

Listing NGR: TQ3246603736

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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.