7, 9 AND 11, SOUTH ROAD

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3006 SOUTH ROAD, Preston
577-1/12/1045 (South side)
Nos.7, 9 AND 11

II

Estate office. 1907. By Charles Stanley Peach. Stucco, roof of
slate.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with dormers in attic, 10-window range.
There is a recessed centre of 4-window range with wings of 3
windows each and a single-storey range between them. The
ground floor has flat-arched entrances at either end of the
single-storey range, flanked by engaged Doric columns, and
having a panel between each door and its overlight decorated
with festoons and paterae; the space between the doors is
glazed in 3 parts, and a door has been introduced in the
right-hand part; the wings have giant angle pilasters with
acanthus-leaf capitals; the windows in the wings are glazed in
the same way, that to the left probably original with a panel
surviving for central door, that to the right altered; an
entablature with dentil cornice runs across both windows and
central section, and is surmounted by cast-iron railings.
First-floor windows flat-arched with 6/6 sashes set in frames
almost flush with the wall; entablature decorated with paterae
and oakleaf festoons and dentil cornice; blocking course; 4
dormers in mansard roof; stack to party wall between Nos 7 and
9, end stack to Nos 7 and 11. Left-hand return has pilasters,
entablature and fascia as over the windows on the street
front.
INTERIOR: a dogleg staircase survives in the centre and west
wing with square newels, turned balusters and moulded rails;
only the top flight survives in the east wing. Original
cast-iron fireplaces with mantelshelf and, in some cases,
grates, survive in the first-floor back room of the middle
wing and the attic rooms of the middle and east wings;
architraves and original panelled doors survive on the first
and attic floors of the middle and west wings. Rooms on first
and attic floors of west wing not inspected.
This building is listed as an early example of the revival of
late C18 and early C19 English architectural forms, a revival
whose beginnings are usually associated with the work of
Adshead and Ramsey on the Duchy of Cornwall estate in
Kennington, London, of c1910-14. Built, at least in part, as
the Preston Estate office.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-;
Architect's drawings in the East Sussex Records Office:
DB/D7/6327).

Listing NGR: TQ3020806372

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Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

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