53, 54 AND 55, SHIP STREET
53, 54 AND 55, SHIP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380920
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 53, 54 AND 55, SHIP STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, 54 AND 55, SHIP STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380920
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 53, 54 AND 55, SHIP STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, 54 AND 55, SHIP STREET
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:
- 53, 54 AND 55, SHIP STREET
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 31003 04184
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW SHIP STREET
577-1/64/836 (East side)
20/08/71 Nos.53, 54 AND 55
II
Terraced houses, now shops and offices. Early C19.
Mathematical tile, stucco, and brick in Flemish bond; gauged
brick lintels. Hipped roof of tile to No.53 and to Nos 54 and
55.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement. No.53 of one-window range.
Nos 54 and 55 taken together have a 2-window range to Ship
Street, a curved corner range of one window, and a 2-window
range to Union Street. The join between No.53 and No.54 is
broken, the front wall of the latter angles back and curves
around the corner to Union Street. There are C19 shop fronts
to the ground floor of all, only the entablature of which
remains to No.53. To Nos 54 and 55 the shop front incorporates
a flat-arched entrance on the corner. The entrance and shop
windows are framed by thin Tuscan pilasters. There is, in
addition, a flat-arched entrance at the left party wall of
No.54. No.53 has a shallow segmental bay with tripartite
windows to the first floor. All windows are flat arched. The
bay-window spandrels are faced with mathematical tile. The bay
is capped by an entablature and covered by a semi-domical
metal roof. Sashes of an original early C19 design: 6 x 6 to
centre and 4 x 4 to sides. The single, second-floor window has
4 x 8 sashes in an original early C19 design. All the
upper-floor windows in the group have projecting sills.
Tripartite windows to corner-window range, that to the second
floor with sashes of an early C19 design: 3 x 6 to centre and
2 x 4 to sides. There is a first-floor segmental bay with
tripartite windows in window range next to the party wall with
No.10 Union Street (qv). The jambs separating the side from
centre windows in this bay are treated as Roman "fasces"; the
sashes are of an early C19 design: 6 x 6 to centre and 2 x 2
to sides. Blocked windows to Ship Street elevation. There is a
continuous entablature and parapet topping all 3.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ3100304184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481244
- 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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