Numbers 159 and 160 and 161 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 159 AND 160 AND 161 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 159, 160 AND 161, MARINE PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381749
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 159 and 160 and 161 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 159 AND 160 AND 161 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 159, 160 AND 161, MARINE PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381749
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 159 and 160 and 161 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 159 AND 160 AND 161 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 159, 160 AND 161, 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:
- NUMBERS 159 AND 160 AND 161 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 159, 160 AND 161, 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 32712 03600
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3203NE MARINE PARADE
577-1/49/475 (North side)
20/08/71 Nos.159, 160 AND 161
and attached railings
GV II
Terraced houses. Early C19, added to in mid to late C19.
Stucco. Roofs obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: No.159 3 storeys and 2-storey attic over basement,
the rest 3 storeys and attic over basement. 2 windows each;
the return of No.159 to Belgrave Place has a 5-window range.
Up steps to flat-arched entrance on Nos 160 and 161, the
former of C20 and the latter with overlight of mid to late C19
date. Ground floor of each treated as banded, chamfered
rustication topped by cornice band. Tripartite window with
keyed lintel to left of entrances to Nos 160 and 161. All
windows are flat arched with projecting sills. Each unit has a
first-floor balcony, that to No.159 supported by thick
brackets moulded in stucco, to No.161 by cast-iron brackets;
both enclosed by cast-iron railings; balcony to No.160 much
altered. Floor-to-ceiling openings to first floors. Storey
band between first and second floors. Cornice between second
floor and attic, and another between attic and parapet; a
second attic storey added to No.159. Some sashes of original
design: 3 x 6 to second-floor windows of No.161; 8 x 8 to one
basement window of No.161 and to 2 basement windows of No.159.
Return to No.159: entrance in centre-window range is flat
arched with overlight, framed by Tuscan pilasters and
entablature; second entrance to the rear of the return; window
to right of main entrance blocked as are all windows in this
range, except for that in the second attic storey; to the left
of the entrance is a full-height segmental bay with single
window to each floor; first-floor windows in the third- and
5th- ranges have architraves which continue below the sill and
end at the storey band between the ground and first floors;
the spandrels enclosed by this unusual feature are blank;
cast-iron balcony to first-floor window at corner, which is
floor-to-ceiling. Sashes of original design to bay on return:
ground and first floors 6 x 6, attic 3 x 3; above entrance 6 x
6; first floor window at corner 4 x 4. Stacks to party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Railings to stairs and areas.
Nos 155-165 Marine Parade (qv) form a group with Nos 1-17
Belgrave Place (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ3271203600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482113
- 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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