39 AND 40, MEETING HOUSE LANE
39 AND 40, MEETING HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381784
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, MEETING HOUSE LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 40, MEETING HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381784
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, MEETING HOUSE LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 AND 40, MEETING HOUSE LANE
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:
- 39 AND 40, MEETING HOUSE LANE
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 31086 04110
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW MEETING HOUSE LANE
577-1/64/509 (North side)
20/08/71 Nos.39 AND 40
GV II
Houses, now shop. Late C19. Stucco scored to imitate
ashlaring; parapet to roof covered in asphalt and obscuring
the roof. Single storey. Ground floor of both now taken up by
a single shop. Continuous entablature ends at extreme party
walls in fluted bracket stops. The shop-window sash to No.40
also dates to the late C19; that to No.39 has been much
altered in this century.
The pair form part of a most important sequence of C18 and C19
buildings with Nos 1-12, 22-32, 36-38, 41, and 43-53 Meeting
House Lane (qv), which is the centre of the Old Town known as
The Lanes. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TQ3108604110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482148
- 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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