Numbers 4 and 5 and 6 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 4 AND 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, 5 AND 6, RICHMOND TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380820
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 4 and 5 and 6 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 4 AND 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, 5 AND 6, RICHMOND TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380820
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 4 and 5 and 6 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 4 AND 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, 5 AND 6, RICHMOND TERRACE
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:
- NUMBERS 4 AND 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 4, 5 AND 6, RICHMOND 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 31573 04975
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104NE RICHMOND TERRACE
577-1/34/752 (East side)
13/10/52 Nos.4, 5 AND 6
and attached railings
GV II
3 terraced houses treated as a single composition under a
broad pediment. 1818. By Amon Wilds. Stucco, roof obscured by
pediment.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement, one window each. Ground
floor decorated with banded rustication. Narrow, flat-arched
entrances with overlights to Nos 4 and 6 either side of a
broad, central segmental-arched porch; the entrance to No.5 is
within the porch and is a replacement; Nos 4 and 6 have one
round-arched window to ground floor, that to No.4 with sashes
of original design, that to No.6 altered in part; No.5 has a
segmental-arched window; the upper floors are more clearly
symmetrical, No.5 having broader windows: the first floor has
flat-arched French windows,those to No.5 tripartite with
mullions treated as fasces; all 3 windows have bracketed
verandahs with concave canopies notable for their decorative
railings and supports which are treated as columns in ornate
ironwork with Ionic capitals supporting an elaborate and
fantastic ornate entablature; sill band to low second-floor
windows; cornice; lunettes to attic; the fasces continue
through the upper windows of No.5; secondary cornice; shallow
pediment terminating in round-arched antefixae.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Cast-iron railings with spearhead finials to area; the broad
flight of steps in front of the houses flanked by squat
columns carrying lanterns surmounted by crowns which
commemorate the visits of George IV to the house of his Lord
Chancellor, Lord Combermere.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3157304975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481144
- 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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