20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE

20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381771
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE
Statutory Address:
20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381771
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE
Statutory Address 1:
20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE

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 31317 04482

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW MARLBOROUGH PLACE
577-1/40/496 (West side)
Nos.20, 21 AND 22

GV II

Building society premises. 1933. By John Leopold Denman for
the Citizens Permanent Building Society. Red brick laid in
stretcher bond with Portland stone dressings, roof of
pantiles.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 5-window range and symmetrical.
Entrances in the outer bays, with 3 round-arched windows
between, the whole front faced in stone up to the springing.
The flat-arched entrances are in shallow porches with canted
sides, panelled architrave, mould springing band, ribbed
blocking course and a keystone decorated with the emblem of
the building society. The windows are set in a
concave-chamfered architrave of stone decorated at the
springing and above with panels showing the building trades,
carved in relief by Joseph Cribb; original metal glazing bars
in the form of a central window brought forward as a small
canted bay with sidelights and radiating glazing bars above.
Deeper windows, probably to a staircase, in the outer bays of
first floor, with architraves and pediment on consoles,the
glazing in the form of a recessed canted bay with concave
sides; 3 inner windows simple flat-arched sashes with frames
brought out almost flush with the wall; the second-floor
windows are of the same type with a sill band of recessed
upright brickwork and plan panels of projecting brickwork
between; original rainwater goods; clock in an ornate and
bracketed wooden case centrally over first floor windows;
stone cornice; brick parapet with stone coping swept up at
ends to fluted urns; 3 hipped dormers in mansard roof; side
and ridge stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).



Listing NGR: TQ3131704482

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
482135
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 20, 21 AND 22, MARLBOROUGH PLACE

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