Clergy House to Church of St Mary Magdalene and Attached Wall

CLERGY HOUSE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACHED WALL, 55, UPPER NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381055
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Clergy House to Church of St Mary Magdalene and Attached Wall
Statutory Address:
CLERGY HOUSE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACHED WALL, 55, UPPER NORTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381055
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1988
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Clergy House to Church of St Mary Magdalene and Attached Wall
Statutory Address 1:
CLERGY HOUSE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACHED WALL, 55, UPPER NORTH STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CLERGY HOUSE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AND ATTACHED WALL, 55, UPPER NORTH 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 30447 04516

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW UPPER NORTH STREET
577-1/31/924 (South side)
10/06/88 No.55
Clergy House to Church of St Mary
Magdalene and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
UPPER NORTH STREET
St Mary Magdalene's Presbytery)

GV II

Clergy house. c1890. Red brick set in English bond with stone
dressings, roof of asbestos slate.
3 storeys over basement, 3-window ranges to Upper North Street
and to Spring Street. The building reads as 2 wings, with a
hipped range in Upper North Street and a gabled range in
Spring Street. Tudor-arched entrance in Upper North Street,
with stone dressings, 3-light overlight and hoodmould;
Tudor-arched entrance in Spring Street with brick dressings;
chamfered corner to ground floor; scattered fenestration, the
windows of one and 2 lights, round-arched, Tudor-arched, and
segmental-arched. External stack to Spring Street now lacking
its full height; glazing renewed throughout, 1992.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Low wall in Spring Street coped with
ridge tiles.

Listing NGR: TQ3044704516

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
481400
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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