Star and Garter
Star and Garter, 16, King's Road, Brighton, BN1 1NE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381637
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Star and Garter
- Statutory Address:
- Star and Garter, 16, King's Road, Brighton, BN1 1NE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381637
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Star and Garter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Star and Garter, 16, King's Road, Brighton, BN1 1NE
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:
- Star and Garter, 16, King's Road, Brighton, BN1 1NE
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 31111 03927
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 January 2024 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards.
TQ3103NW
577-1/46/357
BRIGHTON
KING'S ROAD (north side)
No.16, Star and Garter
(Formerly listed as No.16, Dr Brighton's Public House)
II
Formerly known as: The Star and Garter Hotel, KING'S ROAD. Hotel, now public house. Mid C18 to early C19, expanded in mid C19. This listing includes only the range which returns along Little East Street to the party wall with No.11 Little East Street (not included), that is, from the range which contains the entrance aedicule incorporating a date stone marked "1750". Stucco. Gambrel roof of slate over section nearest party wall with No.11 Little East Street; the rest of the roof parapeted.
EXTERIOR: three storeys and attic over basement.Four-window range. A flat-arched entrance on the Little East Street return is set in an aedicule consisting of a pair of Tuscan columns with an entablature, the frieze of which bears the somewhat earlier date stone noted above. The rear elevation curves parallel with Little East Street. Another flat-arched entrance at party wall with No.11; a segmental-arched entrance near the corner. Storey band between the first and second floors; entablature band below parapet. All windows are flat arched. One sliding sash to dormer in gambrel roof with 6 x 6 sashes of an original late C18 or early C19 design. Stacks to party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: known originally as the Star and Garter Hotel, this inn and public house was dubbed Dr Brighton's in the C19. Many celebrities and public figures have stayed in the hotel: Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, Richard Burton, and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII).
Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 115J
Listing NGR: TQ3111103927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481999
- 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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