Bristol Court
BRISTOL COURT, 142 AND 143, MARINE PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381747
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Court
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL COURT, 142 AND 143, MARINE PARADE
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- 2004-10-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/13356/32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381747
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISTOL COURT, 142 AND 143, 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:
- BRISTOL COURT, 142 AND 143, 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 32560 03665
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3203NE MARINE PARADE
577-1/49/472 (North side)
13/10/52 Nos.142 AND 143
(Bristol Court)
(Formerly Listed as:
MARINE PARADE
No 142 (Bristol Court), No 143
(Bristol Court Hotel))
GV II
Also known as: Nos.5-12 (consec) Bristol Court MARINE PARADE.
Hotel. 1835. Designed by William Hallett who was also the
proprietor. Converted into flats and public house in 1935.
Stucco. Roof of left-hand ranges of slate, the rest obscured
by parapet. Left hand of No.142 5 storeys and attic, the rest
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and attic, all over half basements.
12-window range in all, the elevation treated as a series of
full-height segmental bays, each of 3-window range. The ground
floor originally treated as rustication, which survives on the
left-hand bay only. All windows flat arched with architraves;
above each first-, second- and third-floor window is a cornice
supported on a pair of console brackets. Continuous across all
bays is a cornice between the top floor and the attic; cornice
to attic; in addition a sill band between second and third
floor on all but the left hand bay. The centre attic window in
the left hand bay range is blocked; the same unit has
first-floor balcony with cast-iron railings supported by
cast-iron Tuscan colonnettes and spur of party wall with
No.140 Marine Parade (qv). In the late C19 or early C20 a
2-storey porch added to all but the left-hand bay range, the
uprights of the glazed ground floor are treated as octagonal
colonnettes and supports the first-floor balcony; likewise the
second-floor balcony is supported by cast-iron colonnettes,
these designed in the Tuscan order and placed on high socles;
both porches are enclosed by cast-iron railings. Flat-arched
entrance in porch, in front of second bay range, and another
under the porch on the return. Some sashes of an original
early to mid C19 design on the return: in second- through
4th-window range, first floor to attic, 12 x 12, 8 x 8, 4 x 8
and 4 x 8 respectively. Return steps down to a lower range,
which contains a 3-storey segmental bay of 2-window range.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Built as the Bristol Court Hotel on land owned by the Marquis
of Bristol.
Nos 137-143 Marine Parade (qv) form a group with Eastern
Terrace (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ3256003665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482111
- 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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