Number 48 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, MARINE PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381714
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Number 48 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, MARINE PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381714
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Number 48 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, MARINE PARADE
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:
- NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 48, MARINE PARADE
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 31767 03868
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3103NE MARINE PARADE
577-1/47/438 (North side)
13/10/52 No.48
and attached railings
GV II
Terraced house. Early C19. Stucco. Roof obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR/PLAN: L-shaped plan, with a 3-storeys, 3-window range
elevation on Marine Parade, and a 4-storey, 3-window range
elevation just to the south of No.1 Lower Rock Gardens (not
included).
Marine Parade elevation: round-arched entry with fanlight,
flanked by fluted Tuscan colonnettes and sidelights. 2
round-arched windows to the right. Ground floor covered by
prostyle porch supported by 4 Tuscan columns and entablature.
An arched trellis with spandrels set into each bay of the
porch. Above porch is cast-iron railing to first floor
balcony. 4 giant pilasters of the Tuscan order rise through
the first and second floors; the capitals have fluted blocks
at their necks. The entablature frieze contains metopes
decorated with a sunburst pattern; boldly scaled cornice and
parapet above. The Lower Rock Gardens elevation is most
notable for the enclosed ground-floor porch which is decorated
with a mixture of a mixture of classical and Gothic features:
a plinth of chamfered rustication interrupted by 7 piers on
socles; the piers are panelled with blind, pointed arches; the
windows between the piers are also pointed and have
Gothic-Revival sashes of original design; across the top of
the porch a entablature which consists of diagonal fretwork
and blind pointed arches; crenellated parapet.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Spear-headed railing to area. Grey
plaque to the right of Marine Parade entry reads: "Sir Samuel
Brown, Designer of Chain Pier, England's First Pleasure Pier,
Lived Here 1823".
Listing NGR: TQ3176703868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482077
- 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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