Numbers 41-45 and Attached Railings

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NE MARINE PARADE
577-1/47/436 (North side)
13/10/52 Nos.41-45 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
MARINE PARADE
No 41 (Melford Hall Hotel). Nos
42-45 (consec))

GV II

Terraced houses, converted into flats. c1825. Amon Wilds and
Charles Augustin Busby. Stucco. Gambrel roofs of slate, those
to Nos 41 and 45 turnerised.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with dormers over basement. 3 windows
each, with 2 window-range to left return and 5 window-range to
right. All entries flat arched with overlights, those to Nos
41-42, and 43-44 are paired and set under prostyle porches of
fluted Doric columns; entablature with meander pattern in
frieze above Nos 41-42, while the cornice of other porch has
been obscured by a backlit, C20 sign. Entry to No.45 set
within shallow porch flanked by fluted Tuscan pilasters. The
wall to the right of this entry has been pierced by a
round-headed window. The basements and ground floors of Nos
41-45 have banded rustication. There are first floor balconies
with cast-iron railings to each; those to Nos 41-43 and 45 are
supported by cast-iron brackets. No.45 has a balcony with
cast-iron railings and brackets to the second floor as well.
All windows in the main elevation are flat arched.
The facade of each is treated as a full-height and nearly
full-width segmental bay. The elevation to No.41 is the most
complex, and elements of it are repeated in Nos 42-45: the
first and second floors of No.41 are united by a 2 storey
arcade with piers of giant Tuscan pilasters and entablature.
The attic is treated as single storey arcade with pilasters,
entablature and blocking course. The motif arcade and giant
order is repeated on Nos 42 and 43, but the plan of the attic
storey is simpler, consisting only of a pilastrade and
entablature. Although No.44 follows the same general pattern,
only a trace of the Tuscan pilaster capitals remain, and
instead of a continuous entablature there are 4 cornice blocks
supported by modillion brackets marking each subdivision of
the segmental bay. No.45 is entirely without the colossal
order or arcade; its ground- and first-floor windows are the
only ones in the row to have architraves; it has, in addition,
a first floor cornice supported by console brackets.
The left return elevation has a bay rising 2 storeys, with
entablatures at the ground and first floors; the gambrel roof
section is here treated as a gable with an end stack. To the
left of the 2-storey bay is a lower wing with a canted bay to
the ground floor. 2 entries on the right return, that near the
corner is round arched and set under a Tuscan prostyle porch;
the glazing bars of the door itself and the trapezoidal
overlight form a diamond-shaped pattern which dates from the
early C20. To the right of this porch there is a less formal
entry set under a bracketed, semicircular canopy of late C19
or early C20 date. There are sill bands to the first and
second floors, and the fragments of a cornice to the second
floor. All the units have flat-arched dormers. Stacks to party
walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Railings to stairs and area.

Listing NGR: TQ3173603874

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