Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: C–D
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As of February 2001, there were 1,124 listed buildings with Grade II status in the English city of Brighton and Hove. The total at 2009 was similar. The city, on the English Channel
coast approximately 52 miles (83.7 km) south of London, was formed as a unitary authority
in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton
and Hove
. Queen Elizabeth II granted city status
in 2000.
In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
, a Government department, in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
. English Heritage
, a non-departmental public body
, acts as an agency of this department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. The Grade II designation is the lowest, and is used for "nationally important buildings of special interest". Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; there are 69 such buildings in the city. There are also 24 Grade I listed buildings
(defined as being of "exceptional interest" and greater than national importance, and the highest of the three grades) in Brighton and Hove.
This list summarises 115 Grade II-listed buildings and structures whose names begin with C or D. Numbered buildings with no individual name are listed by the name of the street they stand on. Some listings include contributory fixtures such as surrounding walls or railings in front of the building. These are summarised by notes alongside the building name.
English Channel
The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...
coast approximately 52 miles (83.7 km) south of London, was formed as a unitary authority
Unitary authority
A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national...
in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
and Hove
Hove
Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast...
. Queen Elizabeth II granted city status
City status in the United Kingdom
City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the British monarch to a select group of communities. The holding of city status gives a settlement no special rights other than that of calling itself a "city". Nonetheless, this appellation carries its own prestige and, consequently, competitions...
in 2000.
In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, such as broadcasting and internet....
, a Government department, in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
The Planning Act 1990 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the laws on granting of planning permission for building works, notably including those of the listed building system in England and Wales....
. English Heritage
English Heritage
English Heritage . is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
, a non-departmental public body
Non-departmental public body
In the United Kingdom, a non-departmental public body —often referred to as a quango—is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive to certain types of public bodies...
, acts as an agency of this department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. The Grade II designation is the lowest, and is used for "nationally important buildings of special interest". Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; there are 69 such buildings in the city. There are also 24 Grade I listed buildings
Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
There are 24 Grade I listed buildings in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. The city, on the English Channel coast approximately south of London, was formed as a unitary authority in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton and Hove...
(defined as being of "exceptional interest" and greater than national importance, and the highest of the three grades) in Brighton and Hove.
This list summarises 115 Grade II-listed buildings and structures whose names begin with C or D. Numbered buildings with no individual name are listed by the name of the street they stand on. Some listings include contributory fixtures such as surrounding walls or railings in front of the building. These are summarised by notes alongside the building name.
Listed buildings
| Note | Listing includes |
| [A] | Attached railings |
| [B] | Attached walls |
| [C] | Attached walls and piers Pier (architecture) In architecture, a pier is an upright support for a superstructure, such as an arch or bridge. Sections of wall between openings function as piers. The simplest cross section of the pier is square, or rectangular, although other shapes are also common, such as the richly articulated piers of Donato... |
| [D] | Attached walls and railings |
| [E] | Attached walls, piers and railings |
| [F] | Iron sign and chain |
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| Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8203°N 0.1330°W |
These "entirely unselfconscious 18th-century cottages" are mostly of painted brick, although three are stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed. Each has a single-window range; the windows are bays Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... . Most houses have a dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... window in the attic space above the top floor. |
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| Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8205°N 0.1328°W |
Like its neighbours, this was built in the late 18th century. It is of brick with sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s topped with brick lintels. There is also a casement-style Casement window A casement window is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges. Casement windows are hinged at the side. A casement window (or casement) is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges. Casement windows are hinged at the side. A casement window (or casement) is a... dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... window above a dentil Dentil In classical architecture a dentil is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.The Roman architect Vitruvius In classical architecture a dentil (from Lat. dens, a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.The Roman architect... -pattern cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... of brick. |
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| Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8199°N 0.1329°W |
Originally lodging houses Boarding house A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed... , these are some of the earliest surviving buildings east of Old Steine. Numbers 33 and 35 are stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed; the middle house has flint Flint Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white, or brown in colour, and... walls with some stucco. Number 35 has an arched entrance set below an architrave Architrave An architrave is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture.-Classical architecture:... , while the other two houses have doors set next to each other under flat canopies. Each house has dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... windows in the attic. |
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| Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8198°N 0.1330°W |
Formerly Eastern Lodge, this early 19th-century cottage, of three storeys and with a tiled gambrel Gambrel A gambrel is a usually-symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom on the building's upper level... roof, was radical social reformer George Holyoake George Holyoake George Jacob Holyoake , English secularist and co-operator, was born in Birmingham, England. He coined the term "secularism" in 1851 and the term "jingoism" in 1878.-Owenism:... 's home for more than 25 years. The arched entrance has an architrave Architrave An architrave is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture.-Classical architecture:... and carved keystone Keystone (architecture) A keystone is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch, which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch to bear weight. This makes a keystone very important structurally... . The original sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... in the bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s have been replaced. |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8227°N 0.1478°W |
Between the Grand Grand Hotel (Brighton) The Grand Hotel is a Victorian hotel in Brighton on the south coast of England. It is located on Kings Road, the main carriageway along the seafront; one of several major hotels along this road. Following the fashion to include a hotel's parent company in its name, it is also known as the De Vere... and Metropole Hotels, and overshadowed by the Churchill Square development, this early 19th-century street "has the character of a service road Frontage road A frontage road is a non-limited access road running parallel to a higher-speed road, usually a freeway, and feeding it at appropriate points of access... ". Original survivors include this four-storey bay-windowed Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... pair of houses, with an iron balcony, pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... ed entrance porch and double cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8226°N 0.1478°W |
Facing St Margaret's Place (to which it presents a three-window range) as well as Cannon Place, this early 1820s four-storey house is topped by a parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... and has a rusticated Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... ground floor. The windows on the Cannon Place façade are segmental bays Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... . The entrance is in a flat-hooded porch with a fanlight Fanlight A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan, It is placed over another window or a doorway. and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst... . There are also Ionic Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s on the outer sides of the main façade. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8224°N 0.1479°W |
These houses incorporate part of the former Royal Newburgh Assembly Rooms Assembly rooms In Great Britain and Ireland, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, assembly rooms were gathering places for members of the higher social classes open to members of both sexes. At that time most entertaining was done at home and there were few public places of entertainment open to both sexes... , a high-class social venue built by Amon Henry Wilds Amon Henry Wilds Amon Henry Wilds was an English architect. He was part of a team of three architects and builders who—working together or independently at different times—were almost solely responsible for a surge in residential construction and development in early 19th-century Brighton, which until then had... in 1833 for a local entrepreneur, Charles Wright, who wanted to attract high society to this part of Brighton. The main façade is to St Margaret's Place; there are bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s, two cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... s and a wide portico Portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls... with antae and columns with elaborate capitals Capital (architecture) In architecture the capital forms the topmost member of a column . It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8213°N 0.1380°W |
This bow-fronted building faces Old Steine and is clad with mathematical tile Mathematical tile Mathematical tiles are a building material used extensively in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent—in the 18th and early 19th centuries. They were laid on the exterior of timber-framed buildings as an alternative to brickwork, which their appearance closely resembled... s which have now been painted over. The Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... shopfront is a later addition; the building dates from about 1825 and was probably executed by Amon Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... and Charles Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... . There is a first-floor balcony, a mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... behind a parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... and a series of sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8213°N 0.1381°W |
This is a symmetrical bow-fronted three-storey pair of houses of the early 19th century, now used as shops and offices. The three-window range consists of one bow window Bow window A bow window is a curved bay window. Bow windows are designed to create space by projecting beyond the exterior wall of a building, and to provide a wider view of the garden or street outside and typically combine four or more casement windows, which join together to form an arch.Bow windows first... to each house and a smaller rectangular window in the recess between the bows. There is a parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... in front of the tiled roof. |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8214°N 0.1382°W |
Castle Square has long since lost its character as a significant public space Public space A public space is a social space such as a town square that is open and accessible to all, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socio-economic level. One of the earliest examples of public spaces are commons. For example, no fees or paid tickets are required for entry, nor are the entrants... because of regular alteration since its 18th-century origins. The run of early 19th-century buildings on the south side, dominated by this five-storey structure (incorporating dormer and attic space), are the oldest survivors, but have been altered and commercialised. Attributed to the Wilds and Busby partnership, the building has two-storey Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s, tall sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s, a narrow balcony and a cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... below the attic storey. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8214°N 0.1382°W |
Described as "stout and short", this three-storey house with a projecting ground-floor shopfront may be older than its neighbours—possibly late 18th-century. The stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed façade has two-storey pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s topped with a simple pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... and entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... . Between them is a second-floor bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... with a small dome of metal. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8214°N 0.1383°W |
The prominent, tall mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... accentuates the extreme narrowness of this single-bay cottage, which is contemporary with number 4. The stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed building has a single bay window range above the ground-floor shopfront; the cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... above is met by two slim, full-length pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s with panelled decoration. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8236°N 0.1490°W |
These paired houses are old survivors on this back street off Western Road: they date from about 1830. Their main feature of interest is the set of three Ionic Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s which rise through the upper two storeys and terminate in a blocking course Course (architecture) A course is a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material one unit high, usually in a wall. The term is almost always used in conjunction with unit masonry such as brick, cut stone, or concrete masonry units .-Styles:... below an entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... which hides the tiled roof. |
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| Rottingdean Rottingdean Rottingdean is a coastal village next to the town of Brighton and technically within the city of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex, on the south coast of England... 50.8058°N 0.0588°W |
This house was clad in stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... in the 19th century, hiding its earlier origins. The tiled roof has a chimney at each end of its main range; it then turns to span a west-facing range. The façade has four windows (one in the west-facing wing) on each of two storeys, all with sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8225°N 0.1528°W |
Planned from 1825 as another sea-facing square next to the earlier Bedford Square, this development failed to thrive. The sea end of the western side is formed by this former hotel (now flats) with an 11-window range; five face into Cavendish Place, while six face the sea. The entrance porch has pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s, hood-moulded windows Hood mould In architecture, a hood mould, also called a label mould or dripstone, is an external moulded projection from a wall over an opening to throw off rainwater... and a panelled door with renewed glass. Corinthian-style Corinthian order The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order... pilasters rise through two storeys, and the sea-facing side has a first-floor balcony of cast iron Cast iron Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8227°N 0.1528°W |
This mid-terrace house rises to five storeys and dates from the early to mid-19th century, making it contemporary with the rest of Cavendish Place. There are five windows per storey: two in a flat-fronted bay to the left (south), and three in a canted bay Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... which runs the full height of the house. Rustication Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... and iron window-guards are in place at ground-floor level. An iron balcony sits above this. Some windows have pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... s, cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... s or keystones Keystone (architecture) A keystone is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch, which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch to bear weight. This makes a keystone very important structurally... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8228°N 0.1527°W |
Smaller than its neighbour, rising to four storeys with three windows each, this house has an elaborate entrance consisting of a panelled door with a fanlight Fanlight A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan, It is placed over another window or a doorway. and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst... above, pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s flanking the door, corbel Corbel In architecture a corbel is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger". The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or... s on top of these and next to the fanlight, and a cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... . Except the top storey, all floors have a left-oriented canted Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8229°N 0.1527°W |
Numbers 5 and 6 used to be a hotel, but they are now in residential use again. All three houses are of four storeys. Numbers 5 and 6 have large bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s at ground- and first-floor level; the first-floor window at number 6 is set to the right. Corinthian-style Corinthian order The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s with large decorative capitals Capital (architecture) In architecture the capital forms the topmost member of a column . It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface... span the middle two storeys; above these there is an entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... and a cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8228°N 0.1523°W |
Poet Horace Smith lived at number 12, as indicated by a blue plaque Blue plaque A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event, serving as a historical marker.... . The terrace dates from the late 1820s a nd rises to four storeys. All houses are stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed and rusticated Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... to the ground floor. Bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s predominate, and the first- and second-floor windows are flanked by Corinthian Corinthian order The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s in common with some of the houses opposite. An iron balcony runs across the four houses at first-floor level. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8227°N 0.1524°W |
Only the northern part of the east side of Cavendish Place survives; the side of the 1960s Bedford Hotel Bedford Hotel (Brighton) The Bedford Hotel was a hotel on the seafront in Brighton, England which has subsequently been renamed the Holiday Inn Brighton after becoming a part of the Holiday Inn business.-History:... takes up space previously occupied by several houses. This end-of-terrace house dates from about 1829 and rises to four storeys. A parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... hides the roof. Many features are similar to those of other houses in Cavendish Place: ground-floor rustication Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... , canted Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s, an iron balcony and two-storey pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s of the Corinthian order Corinthian order The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order... . |
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| Rottingdean Rottingdean Rottingdean is a coastal village next to the town of Brighton and technically within the city of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex, on the south coast of England... 50.8082°N 0.0582°W |
Only the cellars of the original 15th-century manor house Manor house A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes... , given to the Challoner family in 1456, remain. Most of the present building, with its smugglers' tunnels leading to the beach, dates from the late 16th century, but the façade is two centuries newer. The flint and brick building has a roof of Horsham Horsham Horsham is a market town with a population of 55,657 on the upper reaches of the River Arun in the centre of the Weald, West Sussex, in the historic County of Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester... stone. The adjacent Little Challoners dates from 1804. |
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The 30 acres (12.1 ha) cemetery Cemetery A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed... is part of a 100 acres (40.5 ha) complex of burial grounds between Race Hill, Lewes Road and Bevendean Bevendean Bevendean is a district of the city of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex, England.The estate lies to the north-east of central Brighton, and was largely developed after World War II with a mixture of council housing and private development. A large proportion of the council houses are now privately... . The mortuary chapel was built of knapped flint in about 1900, and has a square tower with small lancet window Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s and an octagonal spire. Red-brick courses Course (architecture) A course is a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material one unit high, usually in a wall. The term is almost always used in conjunction with unit masonry such as brick, cut stone, or concrete masonry units .-Styles:... and quoins Quoin (architecture) Quoins are the cornerstones of brick or stone walls. Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building... contrast with the pale flint. The entrance, in the base of the tower, has a pointed arch. The two-bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... nave Nave In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting... has an ogee Ogee An ogee is a curve , shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel.... -arched three-light lancet window in the east wall. |
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| Race Hill 50.8370°N 0.1204°W |
Amon Henry Wilds Amon Henry Wilds Amon Henry Wilds was an English architect. He was part of a team of three architects and builders who—working together or independently at different times—were almost solely responsible for a surge in residential construction and development in early 19th-century Brighton, which until then had... 's only Gothic Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... building was the Anglican chapel at this 13 acres (5.3 ha) former private burial ground. The knapped flint building, of the early 19th century, has a wooden turret-style spire, original stained glass Stained glass The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings... , a timber-framed Timber framing Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns... roof with wooden bosses Boss (architecture) In architecture, a boss is a knob or protrusion of stone or wood.Bosses can often be found in the ceilings of buildings, particularly at the intersection of a vault. In Gothic architecture, such roof bosses are often intricately carved with foliage, heraldic devices or other decorations... , curved tracery Tracery In architecture, Tracery is the stonework elements that support the glass in a Gothic window. The term probably derives from the 'tracing floors' on which the complex patterns of late Gothic windows were laid out.-Plate tracery:... in some of the lancet window Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s, and a tall stone porte-cochère Porte-cochere A porte-cochère is the architectural term for a porch- or portico-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which a horse and carriage can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather.The porte-cochère was a feature of many late 18th... attached to the west end. |
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| Ovingdean Ovingdean Ovingdean is a small formerly agricultural village which was absorbed into the borough of Brighton, East Sussex, UK, in 1928, and now forms part of the city of Brighton and Hove. It has expanded through the growth of residential streets on its eastern and southern sides, and now has a population of... 50.8080°N 0.0690°W |
Ian Fraser House is the home of the St Dunstan's St Dunstan's St Dunstan's is a large national charity in the United Kingdom, providing support, rehabilitation and respite care to blind ex-service personnel of the British Armed Forces.... charity for blind members of the British Armed Forces British Armed Forces The British Armed Forces are the armed forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Also known as Her Majesty's Armed Forces and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, the British Armed Forces encompasses three professional uniformed services, the Royal Navy, the... . A chapel was added at the front of the building in 1935–38 by the Burnet John James Burnet Sir John James Burnet was a Scottish Edwardian architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings in Glasgow, Scotland and London, England... Tait Thomas S. Tait Thomas Smith Tait was a prominent Scottish Modernist architect. He designed a number of buildings around the world in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles, notably St... & Lorne design partnership. It is a Modernist Modern architecture Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely... building (especially the interior) of brick and stone, and has a chancel Chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building... lit from above, a nave Nave In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting... and two porches. |
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| Round Hill Round Hill, Brighton Round Hill is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the coastal city of Brighton and Hove in England. The area contains a mix of privately owned and privately rented terraced housing, much of which has been converted for multiple occupancy, and small-scale commercial development... 50.8389°N 0.1326°W |
Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp was an English property developer and politician. He was the son of Sussex landowner Thomas Kemp, whose farmhouse in Brighton was rented by the Prince of Wales in 1786.-Biography:... donated land off the Ditchling Road to Brighton's Jewish community in 1826. They established a cemetery there, and commissioned Thomas Lainson Thomas Lainson Thomas Lainson was a British architect. He is best known for his work in the East Sussex coastal towns of Brighton and Hove , where several of his eclectic range of residential, commercial and religious buildings have been awarded listed status by English Heritage... to build an octagonal brick chapel in 1893. It has a tiled roof, a pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... ed entrance and corbel Corbel In architecture a corbel is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger". The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or... led brick piers Pier (architecture) In architecture, a pier is an upright support for a superstructure, such as an arch or bridge. Sections of wall between openings function as piers. The simplest cross section of the pier is square, or rectangular, although other shapes are also common, such as the richly articulated piers of Donato... at each corner, and is reminiscent of the Queen Anne style Queen Anne Style architecture The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... . The chapel and cemetery are now closed and derelict. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8205°N 0.1351°W |
These are some of the oldest cottages on the East Cliff, running eastwards from Old Steine and the Royal Pavilion Royal Pavilion The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence located in Brighton, England. It was built in three campaigns, beginning in 1787, as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, from 1811 Prince Regent. It is often referred to as the Brighton Pavilion... along the coast towards Rottingdean Rottingdean Rottingdean is a coastal village next to the town of Brighton and technically within the city of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex, on the south coast of England... . Their bow window Bow window A bow window is a curved bay window. Bow windows are designed to create space by projecting beyond the exterior wall of a building, and to provide a wider view of the garden or street outside and typically combine four or more casement windows, which join together to form an arch.Bow windows first... s—unusually tall and narrow—are also some of the earliest in the area. Dating from very early in the 19th century, the three-storey terraced house Terraced house In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls... s each have a dormer window in their gambrel Gambrel A gambrel is a usually-symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom on the building's upper level... roofs. Painted stucco and brickwork predominates, but mathematical tile Mathematical tile Mathematical tiles are a building material used extensively in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent—in the 18th and early 19th centuries. They were laid on the exterior of timber-framed buildings as an alternative to brickwork, which their appearance closely resembled... s are visible around the windows of number 11. The doorcases Chambranle In architecture and joinery, the chambranle is the border, frame, or ornament, made of stone or wood, that is a component of the three sides round chamber doors, large windows, and chimneys.... consist of a Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... porch with a modillion and cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... supported on decorative corbel Corbel In architecture a corbel is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger". The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or... s. The windows are sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8206°N 0.1353°W |
This terrace of four houses, built in the early 19th century, are faced with mathematical tile Mathematical tile Mathematical tiles are a building material used extensively in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent—in the 18th and early 19th centuries. They were laid on the exterior of timber-framed buildings as an alternative to brickwork, which their appearance closely resembled... s which have been painted over. They each rise to three storeys with a dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... window at the top, and have a single canted Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... on each floor. The porches are similar to those at numbers 9–12 Charles Street, although they lack the modillion below the cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... . Number 23 has been subject to several alterations, including the insertion of a much wider bay window on the ground floor. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8192°N 0.1278°W |
This mid-terrace house of the early 19th century rises to four storeys, of which the uppermost is an attic. An entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... and parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... separate this part from the rest of the building. The exterior is stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed. The doorcase Chambranle In architecture and joinery, the chambranle is the border, frame, or ornament, made of stone or wood, that is a component of the three sides round chamber doors, large windows, and chimneys.... has Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s. Each storey has a bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... and a smaller flat window, and a cast-iron balcony runs across at first-floor level. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8193°N 0.1281°W |
This symmetrical pair of terraced house Terraced house In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls... s were built early in the 19th century. Their entrance porches area aligned as a pair and are flanked by Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s supporting a flat entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... . Each house has four storeys, with rustication Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... to the ground floor, cast-iron balconies supported on brackets Bracket (architecture) A bracket is an architectural member made of wood, stone, or metal that overhangs a wall to support or carry weight. It may also support a statue, the spring of an arch, a beam, or a shelf. Brackets are often in the form of scrolls, and can be carved, cast, or molded. They can be entirely... above this, a three-window range in which the centre window on the two upper storeys is blind, and broad bays Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... extending all the way up the façade. The centre windows on the first and second floors are topped by shallow pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... s. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8192°N 0.1281°W |
These are a run of seven terraced houses of the same date as their neighbours at numbers 16 and 17. Stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... is the main building material, but there are some painted mathematical tile Mathematical tile Mathematical tiles are a building material used extensively in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent—in the 18th and early 19th centuries. They were laid on the exterior of timber-framed buildings as an alternative to brickwork, which their appearance closely resembled... s to numbers 23 and 24. The doorways are elevated above street level and have semicircular arches with fanlight Fanlight A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan, It is placed over another window or a doorway. and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst... s. Each house has a two-window range with three-part windows set into full-height, full-width bays. Variations include blind windows above the doors at numbers 18 to 22, and sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... at numbers 23 and 24. All houses also have balconies at first-floor level. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8841°N 0.1470°W |
This war memorial War memorial A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or to commemorate those who died or were injured in war.-Historic usage:... commemorates Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire British Empire The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the... in World War I. Erected on the remote downland South Downs The South Downs is a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose... site of the ghat Ghat Ghat is the capital of the Ghat District in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya.-History:In historical times, Ghat was a major terminal point on the Trans-Saharan trade route and a major administrative center in the Fezzan... on which their bodies were cremated, it was designed by Indian architect E.C. Henriques with guidance from Samuel Swinton Jacob Samuel Swinton Jacob Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob was an English engineer, architect and writer, active in India and best known for the numerous public buildings he designed in the Indo-Saracenic style.-Early life and education:... . Work took place in 1920–21 and the Prince of Wales Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay... unveiled the structure on 1 February 1921. The stone, granite and white Sicilian Sicily Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,... marble pavilion is topped with a dome carried on eight columns. |
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| [A] | Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8168°N 0.1157°W |
The southwestern part of this street dates from about 1855, well after the Regency period, but that era's architectural style Regency architecture The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style... was carried on—making the terrace harmonise with the surrounding buildings of Kemp Town. Many alterations have been made, but the original plan of each house was four storeys, a full-height bay front, Tuscan-style Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... doorcase Chambranle In architecture and joinery, the chambranle is the border, frame, or ornament, made of stone or wood, that is a component of the three sides round chamber doors, large windows, and chimneys.... , three flat-headed windows to each floor and an entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... and cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... . |
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| [E] | Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8172°N 0.1156°W |
The other part of the western side of Chesham Place, also built in the 1850s, maintains the early 19th-century Regency-style Regency architecture The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style... traditions of the rest of the Kemp Town estate, which surrounds it. The houses are stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed and have three storeys and an attic floor. Each floor has canted Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s. The side walls have full-height quoins Quoin (architecture) Quoins are the cornerstones of brick or stone walls. Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building... . |
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| [E] | Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8170°N 0.1152°W |
The ten houses in this terrace, now all converted to flats, share the same overall design. Each has three storeys and attic space, a three-window range formed by a canted Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... bay rising from ground level to the roofline, and an elaborate arrangement on the centre window of the second floor: Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... -style pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s and entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... s form an aedicule-like recess in which the window sits. The entablature in turn supports a cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... which separates the attic from the main elevation. The attic windows are round-arched. The entrances are also set in a Tuscan-columned aedicule. |
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| [A] | Kemp Town Kemp Town Kemp Town is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by Thomas Read Kemp. It has given its name to the larger Kemptown region of Brighton.... 50.8176°N 0.1147°W |
Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt , born Buxton, Norfolk, was the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and also carried out several projects in other parts of England.-Background:... built these four houses in about 1845 on land given to him by Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp was an English property developer and politician. He was the son of Sussex landowner Thomas Kemp, whose farmhouse in Brighton was rented by the Prince of Wales in 1786.-Biography:... in lieu of payment for the work he undertook on the Kemp Town estate. They are treated as two pairs and have different designs, although the cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... is continuous across the whole terrace. Numbers 23 and 25 have three storeys with three windows each and a large segmental bay front. Their doors are set in Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... -pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... ed porches. There are cast iron Cast iron Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due... balconies to the first floor. Numbers 27 and 29 have a two-window range. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8649°N 0.1519°W |
Dating back to the 16th century, but with 19th-century flint walls with some red brickwork, these small terraced cottages open straight on to the road. The three houses share a five-window range and have two storeys each. Number 4's entrance is in a side porch with a hipped roof Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... . The houses are timber-framed Timber framing Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns... and have queen post Queen post A queen post is a supporting post designed to span longer openings than a king post. A king post uses one central supporting post, whereas the queen post uses two.-Architecture:... roofs. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8654°N 0.1515°W |
This 18th-century house was extended in the late 20th century, but is timber-framed Timber framing Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns... with flint Flint Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white, or brown in colour, and... walls and some red brickwork to the quoins Quoin (architecture) Quoins are the cornerstones of brick or stone walls. Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building... and dressings. There is a hipped Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... slate roof with two original chimneys. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8664°N 0.1516°W |
The cottages on Church Hill, including this terrace, were proposed for demolition in the 1960s, but a local preservation society saved and restored them. These buildings are early 19th-century and have a single-window range with stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed walls and slate roofs. Some original sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s survive. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8662°N 0.1515°W |
These are physically separate from the adjacent terrace at 13–21 Church Hill, but are contemporary with those houses and have been listed because of their group value (the way in which their appearance "contributes to the interest" of nearby buildings). They are slate-roofed stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed cottages with two storeys and entrances with straight hood mould Hood mould In architecture, a hood mould, also called a label mould or dripstone, is an external moulded projection from a wall over an opening to throw off rainwater... s. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8660°N 0.1515°W |
The main materials of these terraced cottages are flint and brick, but one end is timber-framed Timber framing Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns... and studded Wall stud A wall stud is a vertical member in the light frame construction techniques called balloon framing and platform framing of a building's wall.-Purpose:... . Most windows are sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . A two-storey bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... has been added to the south side of number 24, also in flint and brick and with an arched entrance. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8659°N 0.1516°W |
Four old timber-framed flint-faced cottages have been converted into two to form this listed building. The flintwork was added in the 18th century. Both houses have a two-window range; the upper windows are dormers. | |||
| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8656°N 0.1517°W |
These four early 19th-century two-storey terraced cottages have been altered but retain their original brick-dressed flint walls. All doors and windows are arched with segmental heads, except the first-floor windows which are straight-headed. The roof has several large chimneys. | |||
| Hanover Hanover, Brighton thumb|right|Hanover Day 2007.Hanover is an area within the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom. It is part of the electoral ward of Hanover & Elm Grove.... 50.8294°N 0.1296°W |
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This is the parish church Parish church A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.... of the Hanover Hanover, Brighton thumb|right|Hanover Day 2007.Hanover is an area within the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom. It is part of the electoral ward of Hanover & Elm Grove.... neighbourhood, whose densely packed streets of terraced housing Terraced house In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls... climb the surrounding hillside. It was briefly administered from St Paul's Church St Paul's Church, Brighton St Paul's Church, dedicated to the missionary and Apostle to the Gentiles Paul of Tarsus, is a Church of England parish church in Brighton in the English county of Sussex. It is located on West Street in the city centre, close to the seafront and the main shopping areas.-History and... upon its completion in 1864 by local architect William Dancy. Edmund Scott extended the building in the 1880s. The Early English-style church has lancet window Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... s, flint and brick walls, wooden columned aisles and a spire-topped tower, added in 1892. |
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| Hanover Hanover, Brighton thumb|right|Hanover Day 2007.Hanover is an area within the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom. It is part of the electoral ward of Hanover & Elm Grove.... 50.8296°N 0.1294°W |
The vicarage was added next to the church in a complementary style in 1897, in memory of the second vicar of the parish. The flint building, with thin brick dressings and a string-course Course (architecture) A course is a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material one unit high, usually in a wall. The term is almost always used in conjunction with unit masonry such as brick, cut stone, or concrete masonry units .-Styles:... , has dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... windows in its tiled roof. The three-window range consists of two small pointed-arched windows flanking larger, slightly recessed windows with a tiled spandrel Spandrel A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.... and a gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... . |
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Edward Prioleau Warren Edward Prioleau Warren Edward Prioleau Warren was a British architect and archaeologist.-Life:He was born at Cotham in Bristol, England on 30 October 1856, as the fifth son of A. W. Warren, JP. He was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, and subsequently articled to G.F. Bodley, whose biography he later wrote... 's simplified Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... brown-brick church was built on Dyke Road on the Brighton/Hove border in the 1920s to serve the northern part of Prestonville. It was erected in the memory of a former Vicar of Preston Preston Village, Brighton Preston Village is a suburban area of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex to the north of the centre. Originally a village in its own right, it was eventually absorbed into Brighton with the development of the farmland owned by the local Stanford family, officially becoming a parish of the town in 1928... , and was originally in that parish. Work took place in 1921–22 and 1927. Most windows are lancets Lancet window A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural motif are most often found in Gothic and ecclesiastical structures, where they are often placed singly or in pairs.The motif first... , and there is a battlement Battlement A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet , in which portions have been cut out at intervals to allow the discharge of arrows or other missiles. These cut-out portions form crenels... ed tower. |
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| Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8298°N 0.1709°W |
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In the 1870s, the priest of St Mary Magdalen's Church in Brighton St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton St Mary Magdalen's ChurchSome sources incorrectly give the spelling "Magdalene". is a Roman Catholic church in the Montpelier area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is one of six Roman Catholic churches in Brighton and one of eleven in the city area... endowed a mission church for Hove, which had no Roman Catholic place of worship. Architect John Crawley's Early English design, in limestone Limestone Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera.... with internal brickwork, was executed in 1880–81. Extensions in 1887 and 1914–15 completed the building. Eric Gill Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement... , a convert Conversion to Christianity Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person to some form of Christianity. It has been called the foundational experience of Christian life... , was received into the Church Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity... here. |
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| Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8276°N 0.1715°W |
This terrace of shops with pale gault-brick flats and offices above are "an integral and important part" of this late 19th-century area's character. The shopfront at 102–104, in the form of a wooden surround and pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... with carvings, is original. A parapet hides a single mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... spanning the whole terrace. The endmost bays have four storeys; the others have three. |
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| Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8280°N 0.1718°W |
This terrace, on the north side of Church Road, is similar to numbers 94–108 opposite. Also built in the 1870s of yellow gault brick with stone dressings (including quoins Quoin (architecture) Quoins are the cornerstones of brick or stone walls. Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building... with vermiculated rustication Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... —a random pattern of curved lines) and a mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... , the pattern of taller tower-style end bays is again followed. The shopfronts are all modern replacements. |
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| North Laine North Laine North Laine is a shopping and residential district of Brighton, on the English south coast immediately adjacent to the Royal Pavilion. Once a slum area, nowadays with its many pubs and cafés, theatres and museums, it is seen as Brighton's bohemian and cultural quarter.-History:Due to its... 50.8241°N 0.1393°W |
This building also faces New Road, and the listing includes number 24 New Road. Like many buildings in Brighton before the advent of Regency architecture Regency architecture The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style... , this house (dating from 1807) has tarred cobblestone walls with some painted brickwork. Sloping land gives it both four- and three-storey elevations, each of which has a three-window range. The Church Street entrance is elaborate: Doric columns Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:... with a mutule leads to an arched doorway with a fanlight Fanlight A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan, It is placed over another window or a doorway. and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst... . There is another arched entrance next to it. A canted Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... shopfront was added on the New Road façade in the 19th century. Many windows are sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . |
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| North Laine North Laine North Laine is a shopping and residential district of Brighton, on the English south coast immediately adjacent to the Royal Pavilion. Once a slum area, nowadays with its many pubs and cafés, theatres and museums, it is seen as Brighton's bohemian and cultural quarter.-History:Due to its... 50.8241°N 0.1396°W |
These houses now have shop units at ground-floor level. They are no later than mid-19th century, and are in the pre-Regency Regency architecture The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style... vernacular Vernacular architecture Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorize methods of construction which use locally available resources and traditions to address local needs and circumstances. Vernacular architecture tends to evolve over time to reflect the environmental, cultural and historical context in which it... style of painted cobblestones with painted brick dressings. The building has five windows to both storeys. All doorways and ground-floor windows are flat-arched. A slate roof sits behind a parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... . |
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| North Laine North Laine North Laine is a shopping and residential district of Brighton, on the English south coast immediately adjacent to the Royal Pavilion. Once a slum area, nowadays with its many pubs and cafés, theatres and museums, it is seen as Brighton's bohemian and cultural quarter.-History:Due to its... 50.8242°N 0.1398°W |
This listing incorporates numbers 18a, 19 and 20 Bond Street, which adjoin as part of a terrace. The buildings rise to three or four storeys and have hipped roofs Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... with tiles. The walls, of brick and stucco, are hidden under paintwork. The single-window range to Church Street has an original (early 19th-century) sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... on the first floor. The ground floor has shop units, one of which (at number 18a) was placed beneath an original carriage arch which retains a keystone Keystone (architecture) A keystone is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch, which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch to bear weight. This makes a keystone very important structurally... with vermiculated rustication Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... . |
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| North Laine North Laine North Laine is a shopping and residential district of Brighton, on the English south coast immediately adjacent to the Royal Pavilion. Once a slum area, nowadays with its many pubs and cafés, theatres and museums, it is seen as Brighton's bohemian and cultural quarter.-History:Due to its... 50.8243°N 0.1402°W |
This two-storey terrace of shops with painted-brick flats above was built no later than the early 19th century. Each has a single window at first-floor level and a dormer in the tiled mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... . Number 7's original 19th-century shopfront, with a cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... and pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s, remains in part. Numbers 6 and 7 have sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s. |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8228°N 0.1408°W |
North Street, which developed in the mid-18th century, became a major commercial area with inns and hotels on both sides. This is the only original hotel to survive; it is now used as offices and shops (the Neo-Georgian shopfront dates from the 1990s). Opened in 1785 as the New Inn, it was considered "the best inn in Brighton" by the 1800s. It finally closed in the 1970s. The simple four-storey eight-window exterior of painted mathematical tile Mathematical tile Mathematical tiles are a building material used extensively in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent—in the 18th and early 19th centuries. They were laid on the exterior of timber-framed buildings as an alternative to brickwork, which their appearance closely resembled... s has a Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... porch with a balcony on top. |
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| [C] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8199°N 0.1244°W |
This early or mid 19th-century house between St George's and Eastern Roads presents a two-window range (one of which is blank) to Clarendon Place and a five-window main façade. The straight-headed entrance, offset to the left in the main frontage, has a Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... porch with cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... and entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... . This is flanked by canted Cant (architecture) Cant is the architectural term describing part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade. The angle breaking the facade is less than a right angle thus enabling a canted facade to be viewed as, and remain, one composition.Canted facades are a typical of, but... bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s which also have Tuscan-style pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s. There are some original sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8196°N 0.1389°W |
East Street was an important commercial area throughout the 19th century, and this building was erected as a hotel in 1869 next to the popular Brill's Baths—Brighton's first communal bathing establishment. The four-storey structure curves round to face the sea on Grand Junction Road: its façade has a 14-window range. The main entrance is balustraded and pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... ed, and there are subsidiary entrances at intervals. The tiled mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... has dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... windows with gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... s. The building is now in residential use. |
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| [E] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8165°N 0.1152°W |
Recent research indicates that this four-storey, three- and four-windowed terrace was built in the late 1850s, rather than the early 1850s as sometimes described. George Cheeseman junior may have designed them. Classical Classical architecture Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance... features include Doric columns Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:... , triglyph Triglyph Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze, so called because of the angular channels in them, two perfect and one divided, the two chamfered angles or hemiglyphs being reckoned as one. The square recessed spaces between the triglyphs on a Doric... s with metopes Metope (architecture) In classical architecture, a metope is a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze, which is a decorative band of alternating triglyphs and metopes above the architrave of a building of the Doric order... , aediculae Aedicula In religion in ancient Rome, an aedicula is a small shrine. The word aedicula is the diminutive of the Latin aedes, a temple building or house.... (with modern windows inserted) and dentil Dentil In classical architecture a dentil is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.The Roman architect Vitruvius In classical architecture a dentil (from Lat. dens, a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.The Roman architect... cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... s. The houses, now converted into flats, are stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed with ground-floor rustication. |
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| [C] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8287°N 0.1493°W |
This semi-detached "Italian-style villa" dates from about 1850 and is slate-roofed and stucco-clad. At the sides are two recessed entrance wings, a storey taller than the rest of the house and thereby forming towers. These, and the main part of the building, have quoins Quoin (architecture) Quoins are the cornerstones of brick or stone walls. Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building... . The 19th-century studded doors are set beneath straight-headed porches. The main fa?çade has five windows, the middle of which is blocked and shared by the two houses. A cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... with brackets Bracket (architecture) A bracket is an architectural member made of wood, stone, or metal that overhangs a wall to support or carry weight. It may also support a statue, the spring of an arch, a beam, or a shelf. Brackets are often in the form of scrolls, and can be carved, cast, or molded. They can be entirely... , canted bay windows to the ground floor, and cast-iron balconies and railings also characterise the building. |
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| [C] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8289°N 0.1484°W |
Clifton Hill's development was slow and inconsistent. This house (originally Clifton Villa) is similar to numbers 1 and 2 (other than lacking the tower-style entrance wings), but dates from 1845. The slate roof is hipped Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... . It has façades to Clifton Hill, with a three-window range, and Clifton Road (with a single window to each of two storeys). The corner has chamfer Chamfer A chamfer is a beveled edge connecting two surfaces. If the surfaces are at right angles, the chamfer will typically be symmetrical at 45 degrees. A fillet is the rounding off of an interior corner. A rounding of an exterior corner is called a "round" or a "radius"."Chamfer" is a term commonly... ed quoins. The entrance door is arched and has a pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... above, supported on pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s. Some windows are canted bays topped with canopies; all have sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . |
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| [B] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8281°N 0.1481°W |
This three-storey semi-detached villa of 1847 has a tall tent-canopied balcony across the whole façade. The houses share a two-window range and have canted bay windows at first-floor level. The hipped roof has a single chimney-stack. At ground floor level, the stucco walls are rusticated Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... . |
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| Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8278°N 0.1480°W |
Built in the 1840s, these stucco-walled, partly rusticated Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... houses have two storeys, two windows and a mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... with dormers and side chimneys. The doorway has an original panelled door and is surrounded by an entablature Entablature An entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave , the frieze ,... and pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s. Most windows are bays Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... with 19th-century sashes, but one is blind. |
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| Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8274°N 0.1469°W |
Although it stands on Clifton Hill, this 1852 coach house was part of 5 Powis Villas. It is elaborate, with Coade stone Coade stone Lithodipyra , or Coade stone, was ceramic stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was used for moulding Neoclassical statues, architectural decorations and garden ornaments that were both of the highest quality and remain virtually... dressings, stucco, brick-dressed flint, a slate roof and some pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s: part of the structure could be seen from the house. In the 1930s it became a garage and workshop, then the adjacent Royal Alexandra Hospital Royal Alexandra Hospital, Brighton The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children is a children's hospital located within the grounds of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in the English county of East Sussex... used it for storage. English Heritage describes it as a "substantially intact and rare survival" with "polite architectural and sculptural features". |
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| [C] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8284°N 0.1482°W |
This short terrace of three-storey stucco-fronted houses are mid-1840s according to recent research. Each has a single window to each storey; roofs vary between tiled and slate-covered. Features common to all four include a straight-headed recessed door under a similarly flat-headed porch, bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s on the two lower floors, with a covered cast-iron verandah at first-floor level (except at number 2, which has lost its canopy), and flat rectangular sash window Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... s at second-floor level. |
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| [D] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8287°N 0.1478°W |
These semi-detached houses are contemporary with the terrace at 1–4 Clifton Road. The top (third) storey is recessed behind a large cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... . Entrances are at the outer sides, and are flanked by large Doric Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s which rise to the cornice then continue above it on the top floor. The doorways themselves are straight-headed and set under a small pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... . Both houses have two-storey bay windows with canopied cast-iron verandahs at first-floor level. |
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| [B] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8288°N 0.1476°W |
Part of a longer terrace, these houses share some architectural elements but have some differences in detail, especially around the entrances. Both have three storeys and share a hipped roof Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... with eaves Eaves The eaves of a roof are its lower edges. They usually project beyond the walls of the building to carry rain water away.-Etymology:"Eaves" is derived from Old English and is both the singular and plural form of the word.- Function :... . The porch at number 9 (called Eagle Villa in 1850) is recessed and topped by a pediment with a carved eagle. Number 10's entrance is in a full-height bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... , giving the house a two-window range unlike its neighbour. The ground and first floors have bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s with cast-iron open balconies. |
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| Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8288°N 0.1482°W |
This villa's original attribution to Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... and Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... in the 1820s is now thought to be 20 years too early. The two-bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... , four-window façade of stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... sits beneath a slate roof. A one-storey recessed fifth bay on the south side has a pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... ed entrance set into a modern porch, and the north side also has a recessed bay. On the main elevation, the ground-floor windows are canopied, and those above are set between Ionic Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian... pilasters. The cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... above this is supported on brackets. |
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| [B] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8265°N 0.1475°W |
This wide sweep of terraced villa Villa A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity,... -style houses overlook a private garden which was the site of a windmill until 1837. The 23 houses, and number 18 Vine Place (next to 23 Clifton Terrace), were finished in 1851. The three centre houses rise to three storeys, forming an elevated centrepiece. Most houses share porches and blank windows with their neighbour; numbers 1, 14, 22 and 23 have two visible façades and single porches. The doorways are mostly straight-headed, while the porches have segmental arches. Bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s, mostly set beneath canopies, predominate on the ground floor. Dormer windows are set into the roofs. |
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| [B] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8268°N 0.1481°W |
Built later than the rest of the terrace, in about 1870, this two-storey painted brick and stucco house is double-fronted to the south and west. The arched entrance is reminiscent of the four-centred "Tudor" style. Below the roof runs a moulded cornice and parapet. | ||
| [C] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8265°N 0.1485°W |
Diagonally opposite the main part of the terrace, and contemporary with it, these five houses have three storeys and segmental-arched doorways. Numbers 28–29 and 30–31 share three-window ranges with a central blocked opening below an architrave Architrave An architrave is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture.-Classical architecture:... and pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... . Some original staircases survive inside. |
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| [D] | Montpelier Montpelier, Brighton Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete... 50.8264°N 0.1486°W |
This is a short terrace of mixed height, and the houses vary in width and number of windows. Numbers 32 and 33 share a segmental entrance arch with adjacent doorways. The façades have full-height canted bay windows. | ||
| Withdean Withdean Withdean is a former village, now part of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. The area was originally named in the 12th century, when it was called Wictedene. The area was historically farm land but has been developed, mainly in the 1920s and 1930s, with a mix of detached, semi-detached and mid-rise... 50.8491°N 0.1527°W |
This was the lodge house to a now demolished mid 19th-century villa east of the main London Road; three other such lodges survive. Built in 1885, according to a plaque on its west gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... , the two-storey brick and stucco building has some decorative weatherboarding Weatherboarding Weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin timber boards that overlap one another, either vertically or horizontally on the outside of the wall. They are usually of rectangular section with parallel sides... and a steep roof with gables on three sides. The simple flat-headed entrance is on the south side; the gable above it is jettied Jettying Jettying is a building technique used in medieval timber frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below. This has the advantage of increasing the available space in the building without obstructing the street... . There are two elaborate brick chimneys with cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... s. |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8237°N 0.1436°W |
This central Brighton landmark, erected in 1888 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Victoria of the United Kingdom Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India.... Golden Jubilee, has survived numerous calls for its demolition for reasons including its danger to traffic and its lack of architectural merit. Opinion on the latter has long been polarised: negative comments include "a giant salt-cellar" and "worthless", more approving commentators have called it "supremely confident" and "extremely charming and delightful", and even ambivalent historians have strong views ("charmingly ugly"). Designed by John Johnson in a style mixing Classical Classical architecture Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance... , Baroque Baroque architecture Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and... and High Victorian Gothic Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... , it has pink granite, Portland stone Portland stone Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major... , intricate scrollwork, a turreted cornice, a copper dome and an idiosyncratic time ball Time ball A time ball is a large painted wooden or metal ball that drops at a predetermined time, principally to enable sailors to check their marine chronometers from their boats offshore... by local inventor Magnus Volk Magnus Volk Magnus Volk was a pioneer British electrical engineer. He is most notable for having built Volk's Electric Railway, the world's oldest extant electric railway. He also built the unique, but short lived, Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, together with its unusual Daddy Long Legs... . |
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| Preston Village Preston Village, Brighton Preston Village is a suburban area of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex to the north of the centre. Originally a village in its own right, it was eventually absorbed into Brighton with the development of the farmland owned by the local Stanford family, officially becoming a parish of the town in 1928... 50.8405°N 0.1448°W |
Preston Park was laid out in 1883–84 on 67 acres (27.1 ha) of Stanford family land, and was the first (and largest) public park in Brighton. The Brighton Borough Surveyor Francis May was commissioned to design a clock tower, which was ready in 1892. The three-stage design is square–octagonal–square–octagonal in plan, mixes the Classical and the Gothic styles and a wide range of materials (stone, timber, brick and terracotta), and has been called "pompous". Local firm F. Patching and Sons built it, and a local councillor funded it. | |||
| Queen's Park Queen's Park, Brighton Queen's Park is an administrative ward and a public park in Brighton, England.The area lies to the east of the centre of Brighton, north of Kemptown and south-east of Hanover. It is largely made up of Victorian terraced houses, with a smaller number of detached and semi-detached houses... 50.8245°N 0.1242°W |
The newest of Brighton's three listed clock towers was added to Queen's Park in 1915. Originally called Brighton Park, the land had been a private pleasure garden between 1823 and 1892, when it was given to Brighton Corporation and redesigned for public use. A London architect, Llewellyn Williams, won the design commission; he produced a three-stage tower in rusticated Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... Portland stone Portland stone Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major... and brick, topped by a copper dome. It stands overlooking the park's lake on elevated ground (the park is in a natural valley). |
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| Ovingdean Ovingdean Ovingdean is a small formerly agricultural village which was absorbed into the borough of Brighton, East Sussex, UK, in 1928, and now forms part of the city of Brighton and Hove. It has expanded through the growth of residential streets on its eastern and southern sides, and now has a population of... 50.8159°N 0.0768°W |
The adjacent rectory, completed in 1807, is Grade II*-listed. Its cobblestone-clad, brick-dressed coach house was finished in the same year. The doorways and windows are arched, and the roof is tiled and partly gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... d. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8194°N 0.1223°W |
This pair of terraced houses are separated by a wide arched carriage entrance. The early or mid 19th-century Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... structure has a three-bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... gabled façade whose centre bay contains the Tudor-arched entrance. Number 7's door is in the same style. |
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John Collingwood (1796–1861) is interred in a large Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... stone and marble tomb, resembling a dovecote Dovecote A dovecote or dovecot is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be square or circular free-standing structures or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in... or tabernacle Church tabernacle A tabernacle is the fixed, locked box in which, in some Christian churches, the Eucharist is "reserved" . A less obvious container, set into the wall, is called an aumbry.... . W. Burnett designed the square-plinthed Portland stone Portland stone Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major... tomb, which has granite Granite Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic... columns with gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... s and Gothic-carved spandrel Spandrel A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.... s. Next to it is Rev. F.W. Robertson's Frederick William Robertson Frederick William Robertson , known as Robertson of Brighton, was an English divine.Born in London, the first five years of his life were passed at Leith Fort, where his father, a captain in the Royal Artillery, was then resident... tomb: an Egyptian-style pylon with bronze motifs, erected in 1853. Robertson was a famous preacher at Holy Trinity Church Holy Trinity Church, Brighton The former Holy Trinity Church is a closed Anglican church in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Established in the early 19th century by Thomas Read Kemp, an important figure in Brighton's early political and religious life, it was originally an independent... until his death at 37. An adjacent Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture... tomb, commemorating an unknown burial, is included in the listing. |
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| Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8295°N 0.1769°W |
Designed by Thomas Simpson in 1884 as a Board School and extended with workshops by Clayton & Black in 1903, this building survived as a school until 1984, after which it became an adult education centre. Representing an "elegant", "distinctive" and early use of the Queen Anne style Queen Anne Style architecture The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... , it is a yellow- and red-brick building with curved gables and terracotta-coloured render. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8238°N 0.1387°W |
Robert Atkinson added this wing to the Corn Exchange/Dome complex in 1934. Its grey-brick exterior is in a simplified version of William Porden William Porden William Porden was a versatile English architect. Born in Kingston upon Hull, he trained under James Wyatt and Samuel Pepys Cockerell.... 's Islamic-influenced Islamic architecture Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the foundation of Islam to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures in Islamic culture.... work in the early 1800s. The four-bay façade has sculptures by James Woodford James Woodford James Woodford was an English sculptor-Life:Woodford was born in Nottingham in 1893. His father was a lace designer. Woodford started studying at the Nottingham School of Art, but his studies were curtailed when he enlisted during the First World War. After the war, he continued his training at... . |
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| [E] | North Laine North Laine North Laine is a shopping and residential district of Brighton, on the English south coast immediately adjacent to the Royal Pavilion. Once a slum area, nowadays with its many pubs and cafés, theatres and museums, it is seen as Brighton's bohemian and cultural quarter.-History:Due to its... 50.8240°N 0.1381°W |
Charles Sorby designed this two-storey building in 1868 in a Tudor Tudor architecture The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons... /Gothic Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... derivative of the Italianate style Italianate architecture The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and... which hitherto had been popular for courthouses. It opened in July 1869 and was used until 1967, when the council acquired it and used it for storage. It was restored as a museum lecture room in 2002. The building is of brick and Bath stone Bath Stone Bath Stone is an Oolitic Limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. Originally obtained from the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England, its warm, honey colouring gives the World Heritage City of Bath, England its distinctive appearance... ; its hipped roof Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... is tiled. |
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| Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8247°N 0.1742°W |
Courtenay Terrace—built in 1832 the terrace is a mix of flats and original houses - its buildings are individually named and listed. This part has a mansard roof Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret... and rises to three storeys with pedimented dormers in the roof above. The rear (south) façade faces a garden and the beach. |
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| [B] | Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8246°N 0.1741°W |
This two-storey building was a hotel for a time, and was remodelled in 1899 to make a link to the adjacent Courtenayside. Features include an ogee Ogee An ogee is a curve , shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel.... corner dome, sash and casement windows, a continuous first-floor balustrade and a curved dormer. |
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| [B] | Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8247°N 0.1738°W |
Originally part of a separate villa in 1875, this three- to four-storey building has been altered several times and is now part of Courtenay Terrace. The fourth storey is formed by a crenellated tower with decorative quoining Quoin (architecture) Quoins are the cornerstones of brick or stone walls. Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building... , cornice and frieze. Most windows are sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . The surrounding walls, in a "slightly Art Deco Art Deco Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and... style", may date from a round of alterations in 1933. |
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| [B] | Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8247°N 0.1739°W |
Along with Courtenay Towers, this building also formed part of the villa (Hove Lea) which was incorporated into the terrace in the early 20th century. Its single façade has two bays Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... and three storeys. Full-height Ionic Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s frame the first-floor windows; the lower storey is rusticated Rustication (architecture) thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar... . A balustrade tops the parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... . |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8183°N 0.1236°W |
Only the eastern side of this narrow north–south street behind the East Cliff has buildings. Numbers 1 and 2 have been attributed to Amon Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... and Charles Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... and date from the early part of their partnership: possibly as early as the 1810s. They have distinctive verandahs at first-floor level, bay windows there and on the ground floor and a cornice below the roofline. Number 1 also has a triangular bay window on the second floor. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8189°N 0.1234°W |
These houses are slightly later than the pair at the other end of the street, and their architect is unknown. Nevertheless, they follow the three-storey, bay-windowed and balconied pattern of the latter. The balconies, at first-floor level, are not covered and are reached by French windows. The cornice below the roofline continues round number 12 and is visible on the side (north) façade. | ||
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The oldest pub in central Brighton has its origins in 1545, under the name Laste and Fishcart; it served the village fishermen. It was renamed in 1790 by its new landlord, a cricket fan, and the present appearance is mostly 19th-century (the interior is mostly "an exaggerated ... lavish display of Victoriana" from 1886). The first-floor bar is now "The Greene Room" and contains Graham Greene Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world... memorabilia; the author spent much time there and mentioned it in Brighton Rock. The exterior has cobbled flintwork. |
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| [D] | Hove Hove Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast... 50.8331°N 0.1653°W |
Part of the "Willett estate" of Gault clay Gault Clay Gault is a clay formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period... -brick houses erected by William Willett William Willett William Willett , was an English builder and a tireless promoter of British Summer Time.-Biography:Willett was born in Farnham, Surrey, in the United Kingdom, and educated at the Philological School. After some commercial experience, he entered his father's building business, Willett Building... in the late 19th century, this set of houses includes villas and twin terraces. They form "a fine group", with their "homogeneity and good proportions", and are part of a conservation area. The buildings date from the early 1880s and have extensive mouldings, canted bay windows and hipped roofs. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8250°N 0.1484°W |
This pair of terraced houses have modern roofs, but they were built in the early 19th century. Each has two floors with a single-window range. The stuccoed exteriors have straight-headed entrances with patterned architrave Architrave An architrave is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture.-Classical architecture:... s and fanlights. The bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s are sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8250°N 0.1481°W |
Also dating from the early 19th century, this mid-terrace house has two storeys with a single window on each. The entrance sits between pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s and below a patterned canopy supported on brackets. The windows are bays. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8248°N 0.1482°W |
Unlike the other listed houses in this street, which are stuccoed, this cottage is built of brick (now painted over) and mathematical tile Mathematical tile Mathematical tiles are a building material used extensively in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent—in the 18th and early 19th centuries. They were laid on the exterior of timber-framed buildings as an alternative to brickwork, which their appearance closely resembled... s to the spandrel Spandrel A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.... s of the bay windows. The roof has been renewed. The entrance has a patterned architrave Architrave An architrave is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture.-Classical architecture:... above. |
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| [A] | Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8231°N 0.1523°W |
The sea-facing centrepiece of Cavendish Place should have been a Charles Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... -designed mansions for the Count and Countess of St Antonio, who owned the land at the time (the mid-1820s). The scheme foundered, and this building took its place in 1829. Built as Cavendish Mansions—a pair of semi-detached houses—it later became a hotel, but is now flats. An astylar Astylar Astylar is an architectural term given to a class of design in which neither columns nor pilasters are used for decorative purposes; thus the Riccardi and Strozzi palaces in Florence are astylar in their design, in contradistinction to Palladio's palaces at Vicenza, which are columnar.... Classical Classical architecture Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance... stuccoed building with six bays Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... and four storeys, it has round- and flat-arched windows, a cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... and parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... . |
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| Rottingdean Rottingdean Rottingdean is a coastal village next to the town of Brighton and technically within the city of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex, on the south coast of England... 50.8063°N 0.0594°W |
Now united as a single dwelling, this 19th-century building has a two-storey main part and two wings to the rear linked by a single-storey structure. The main building has a three-window range with a Doric-columned Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:... porch and original panelled door; the window above it is an original hood-moulded Hood mould In architecture, a hood mould, also called a label mould or dripstone, is an external moulded projection from a wall over an opening to throw off rainwater... sash Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . The rear wings are partly flint-built; one has some stained glass Stained glass The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings... . |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8211°N 0.1314°W |
Amon Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... and Charles Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... are believed to have designed these houses during their long partnership. The buildings date from the 1820s and have tiled roofs and three-storey stuccoed façades and prominent bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s. The entrances are set in arched doorcases; that at number 10 also has a bracketed porch. Both houses have balconies of differing design at first-floor level. Most windows are sashes. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8215°N 0.1313°W |
These three houses are contemporary with number 36 and were probably also designed by the Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... –Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... partnership. Number 16 has a full-height bay window to the first and second floors, flanked by Ionic-style Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian... fluted Fluting (architecture) Fluting in architecture refers to the shallow grooves running vertically along a surface.It typically refers to the grooves running on a column shaft or a pilaster, but need not necessarily be restricted to those two applications... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s—the same motif as at number 36. It lacks a balcony, unlike number 17—which also has a left-oriented full-height bay window. The ground-floor stucco of numbers 16 and 17 has a rusticated pattern. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8215°N 0.1309°W |
Amon Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... and Charles Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... were probably responsible for this mid-1820s house, which is distinguished by fluted Fluting (architecture) Fluting in architecture refers to the shallow grooves running vertically along a surface.It typically refers to the grooves running on a column shaft or a pilaster, but need not necessarily be restricted to those two applications... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s of the Ionic order Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian... flanking the right-oriented full-height bay window. Running between the bases of the pilasters is a curved cast-iron balcony. The entrance, to the left, is straight-headed and sits below a small cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... ; the two flat-arched windows above have similar cornices supported on brackets. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8214°N 0.1310°W |
Originally part of the Brighton Regency Synagogue Brighton Regency Synagogue The Brighton Regency Synagogue is a former synagogue in Brighton noted for the elegance of its Regency architecture. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.... , which occupied numbers 37 to 39 inclusive, this is now a separate building and is accordingly listed separately. The building dates from about 1825 in its original form; it was rebuilt in 1837 by David Mocatta David Mocatta David Mocatta was a British architect and a member of the Anglo-Jewish Mocatta family.-Biography:Mocatta studied in London from 1821 to 1827 under Sir John Soane and travelled in Italy... in connection with the founding of the synagogue, and was comprehensively restored during its conversion into flats in the late 20th century. The three-storey building has a stucco Stucco Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture... ed façade with some rustication. Each storey has three windows, all of which are sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8212°N 0.1311°W |
Attributed to Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... and Busby Charles Busby Charles Augustin Busby was an English architect.He created many buildings in and around Brighton such as Brunswick Square and St Margarets Church. His style usually included Romanesque style pillars to his buildings.... and dated to the mid-1820s, these houses have large bay window Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Bay windows are often associated with Victorian architecture... s, doorcases with Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s and capitals Capital (architecture) In architecture the capital forms the topmost member of a column . It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface... in the form of a Star of David Star of David The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.Its shape is that of a hexagram, the compound of two equilateral triangles... , and two-storey pilasters beside the windows. Each is of three storeys with a two-window range. |
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| [A] | Kemptown Kemptown Kemptown is a small community running along the King's Cliff to Black Rock in the east of Brighton, East Sussex, England.-History:The area takes its name from Thomas Read Kemp's Kemp Town residential estate of the early 19th Century, but the one-word name now refers to an area larger than the... 50.8211°N 0.1311°W |
Very wide bay windows characterise these three-bay Bay (architecture) A bay is a unit of form in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form.-Defining elements:... terraced houses of the early 19th century. The ground floor is rusticated and separated from the two storeys above by a cornice Cornice Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting... . A bracketed cast-iron balcony spans the first floor. |
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| Round Hill Round Hill, Brighton Round Hill is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the coastal city of Brighton and Hove in England. The area contains a mix of privately owned and privately rented terraced housing, much of which has been converted for multiple occupancy, and small-scale commercial development... 50.8298°N 0.1348°W |
Originally called Laburnum Cottage, this small cottage dates from the mid-1810s and has stylistic similarities to early Amon Wilds Amon Wilds Amon Wilds was an English architect and builder. He formed an architectural partnership with his son Amon Henry WildsIn this article, Amon Wilds is referred to as Wilds senior and his son Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds junior. in 1806 and started working in the fashionable and growing seaside resort... buildings—in particular the louvres Louver A louver or louvre , from the French l'ouvert; "the open one") is a window, blind or shutter with horizontal slats that are angled to admit light and air, but to keep out rain, direct sunshine, and noise... on the second-floor windows. The three-storey house is stuccoed and has bay windows and a verandah. |
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| [A] | Round Hill Round Hill, Brighton Round Hill is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the coastal city of Brighton and Hove in England. The area contains a mix of privately owned and privately rented terraced housing, much of which has been converted for multiple occupancy, and small-scale commercial development... 50.8299°N 0.1348°W |
Once called Adelphi Terrace, these five houses are a single composition united under a pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... ed gable Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable... . The three-storey houses have a cast-iron balcony (partly covered) at first-floor level and prominent bay windows. |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8201°N 0.1401°W |
This seafront building has 18th-century origins: it was a hotel (The Star and Garter) for many years, and its present name-originally a 19th-century nickname-subsequently became official as it became an inn. Many of Brighton's famous visitors have stayed in the three-storey building, and it was the site of a confrontation between fishermen and the town's more recent residents in 1827 when a capstan Capstan (nautical) A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to apply force to ropes, cables, and hawsers. The principle is similar to that of the windlass, which has a horizontal axle.- History :... outside had to be removed for the construction of Grand Junction Road. The entrance is in a Tuscan-columned Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... porch with a carved date-stone reading "1750". There is a four-window range with some sashes Sash window A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins... . |
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| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8201°N 0.1395°W |
Called "an unusual early survivor in this part of town", this tiny building is reached down a narrow twitten Twitten Twitten is an old Sussex dialect word, used in both East and West Sussex, for a path or alleyway. It is still in common use. The word is also in common use in the London residential area known as Hampstead Garden Suburb.... between East Street and King's Road. It was originally two cottages, possibly part of a now demolished terrace of fishermen's houses. Parts of the building are 18th-century, but there has been alteration in the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls have cobblestones and brickwork. |
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| [A] | Carlton Hill Carlton Hill, Brighton Carlton Hill is an inner-city area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. First developed in the early and mid-19th century on steeply sloping farmland east of central Brighton, it grew rapidly as the town became a fashionable, high-class destination... 50.8223°N 0.1332°W |
This double-fronted corner house may have been built (in 1801–04) around the core of an 18th-century building. The three-storey building has a cobble-fronted and stuccoed façade, a pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... -flanked entrance, straight-headed windows (one of which, at second-floor level, is blank) and dormers in the roof. |
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| [A] | Carlton Hill Carlton Hill, Brighton Carlton Hill is an inner-city area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. First developed in the early and mid-19th century on steeply sloping farmland east of central Brighton, it grew rapidly as the town became a fashionable, high-class destination... 50.8220°N 0.1333°W |
This was built in about 1790, and still has its original frontage—unlike most of its contemporary neighbours. The façade consists of flint cobblestones with some brickwork to the quoins. The roof, behind a brick parapet Parapet A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a... , has a single dormer Dormer A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often... window. The three storeys have two windows each; most are original sashes and all have brick surrounds. |
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| [A] | Carlton Hill Carlton Hill, Brighton Carlton Hill is an inner-city area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. First developed in the early and mid-19th century on steeply sloping farmland east of central Brighton, it grew rapidly as the town became a fashionable, high-class destination... 50.8217°N 0.1335°W |
The façades of these seven 1790s houses are stuccoed, except for number 15 which (like nearby number 7) has kept its 18th-century flint cobblestones. Number 17 additionally has quoins of painted brick. Number 16 is wider than its neighbours: it has a two-window range rather than a single window to each of its three storeys. The doorways have pilasters, some in the Tuscan Tuscan order Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di... style with bracketed porches. Two houses have canted bay windows next to their entrances; that at number 16 is topped by a balcony. |
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| Hangleton Hangleton Hangleton is an estate in west Hove, East Sussex. The estate was developed circa the late 1930s after the Dyke railway was closed.It contains both the oldest building in the city of Brighton and Hove, St Helen's Church, and the second oldest building: that which was Hangleton Manor and is now the... 50.8477°N 0.2050°W |
Viscountess Wolseley, writing in 1925, said that "if only to see this ancient pigeon-cote, Hangleton Hangleton Manor Inn Hangleton Manor Inn, the adjoining Old Manor House and associated buildings form a bar and restaurant complex in Hangleton, an ancient village which is part of the English city of Brighton and Hove... would repay a visit". The 17th-century structure, which is allegedly haunted by ghost birds, fell into dereliction but was restored in the 1980s. It has flints laid in courses Course (architecture) A course is a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material one unit high, usually in a wall. The term is almost always used in conjunction with unit masonry such as brick, cut stone, or concrete masonry units .-Styles:... , cementwork and a clay roof. The potence, a swinging ladder, has been restored. |
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| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8671°N 0.1515°W |
This 17th-century flint-walled structure on the ancient Patcham Court Farm is the city's only Scheduled Ancient Monument. It has a 550-bird capacity, retains its original potence (pivoted ladder) and is circular in shape with buttress Buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall... es and a cone-shaped roof of tiles. The city council have called it "an unusual survival [which] adds considerable interest and character to the area". |
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| Round Hill Round Hill, Brighton Round Hill is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the coastal city of Brighton and Hove in England. The area contains a mix of privately owned and privately rented terraced housing, much of which has been converted for multiple occupancy, and small-scale commercial development... 50.8392°N 0.1345°W |
Thomas Simpson designed this board school in 1890, with a two-storey section for junior pupils and a single-storey range for infants. The building has much decorative brickwork, terracotta and tiles, and is mostly of brown brick. Many original features survive. | |||
| Patcham Patcham Patcham is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove. It is approximately north of the city centre, bounded by the A27 to the north, Hollingbury to the east and southeast, Withdean to the south and the Brighton Main Line to the west... 50.8595°N 0.1519°W |
This was erected in 1897 as a memorial (as indicated by the inscription on the frieze, although no name is given). The granite structure has a central fountain and basin, troughs to the sides for the use of dogs and horses, and a pediment Pediment A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding... at the top. |
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| Queen's Park Queen's Park, Brighton Queen's Park is an administrative ward and a public park in Brighton, England.The area lies to the east of the centre of Brighton, north of Kemptown and south-east of Hanover. It is largely made up of Victorian terraced houses, with a smaller number of detached and semi-detached houses... 50.8252°N 0.1250°W |
Francis May added this "curiously medieval" feature during his landscaping of the park in 1892–93 ready for its opening to the public. The terracotta, granite, sandstone and red-brick structure is square with four dome-topped octagonal towers at the corners and a larger central dome, all slightly reminiscent of onion dome Onion dome An onion dome is a dome whose shape resembles the onion, after which they are named. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the drum upon which they are set, and their height usually exceeds their width... s. Architectural historians have seen elements of the Tudor and Renaissance styles in the structure. |
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More than 100 pubs opened in Brighton in the two years after the Beerhouse Act 1830 was passed; this brick and flint building on Brighton Place (originally a house, and built in the late 18th century) is one of only two survivors, along with Regency Tavern. The flint façade would have been common at the time but is now rare in The Lanes. The tiled roof has dormer windows. A 16th-century house may have occupied the site. | |||
| Round Hill Round Hill, Brighton Round Hill is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the coastal city of Brighton and Hove in England. The area contains a mix of privately owned and privately rented terraced housing, much of which has been converted for multiple occupancy, and small-scale commercial development... 50.8339°N 0.1384°W |
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The Clayton and Black firm designed this cinema, which opened in 1910, at a cost of £3,000. It is England's oldest working cinema and was one of the first in the world. Restoration in 1994 returned the building to its original condition. The roof is adorned with a giant pair of high-kicking female legs, taken from a cinema in Oxford Oxford The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through... . |
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| The Lanes 50.8242°N 0.1451°W |
These early 19th-century houses are distinguished from their contemporary neighbours by the use of red mathematical tile Mathematical tile Mathematical tiles are a building material used extensively in the southeastern counties of England—especially East Sussex and Kent—in the 18th and early 19th centuries. They were laid on the exterior of timber-framed buildings as an alternative to brickwork, which their appearance closely resembled... s. Each has a single narrow bow window rising through the upper two storeys. Shopfronts were inserted in the late 19th century. The buildings share a central chimney-stack. |
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This "remarkable" house, hidden from the street and perpendicular to it, is the oldest building on Duke Street, and has a very rare wooden façade. The blocks of wood were laid and painted to look like stone. The two-storey house, built in the 1780s, has two storeys and a dormer window in the tiled roof. The arched entrance is set to the left in a bay which is linked to the house by a curved parapet. | |||
| Ovingdean Ovingdean Ovingdean is a small formerly agricultural village which was absorbed into the borough of Brighton, East Sussex, UK, in 1928, and now forms part of the city of Brighton and Hove. It has expanded through the growth of residential streets on its eastern and southern sides, and now has a population of... 50.8181°N 0.0756°W |
These late 18th-century buildings were part of a farm complex and have been altered several times. They have flint and stucco façades, tiled roofs, dormer windows and several chimneys built of different materials. Most windows are segmental-headed. | |||
| Brighton Brighton Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain... 50.8242°N 0.1451°W |
This "freely inventive" and distinctive building opposite Wykeham Terrace Wykeham Terrace, Brighton Wykeham Terrace is a row of 12 early 19th-century houses in central Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The Tudor-Gothic building, attributed to prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds, is built into the hillside below the churchyard of Brighton's ancient parish church... was built as a school for poor girls on behalf of Dr Swan Downer, a merchant, who left money to found new schools and to clothe destitute adults. The foundation stone was laid in 1867, and George Somers Leigh Clarke George Somers Leigh Clarke George Somers Clarke was an English architect. He became a RIBA Associate in March 1845 and a Fellow in June 1859. He sat on RIBA Council. In 1868 he had offices at 20 Cockspur Street, London... 's brown brick and stone building was used for education until the late 1930s. Since the 1960s it has housed nightclubs under many different names. The French French Gothic architecture French Gothic architecture is a style of architecture prevalent in France from 1140 until about 1500.-Sequence of Gothic styles: France:The designations of styles in French Gothic architecture are as follows:* Early Gothic* High Gothic... /Flemish Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... building has a steep roof, a prominent oriel window Oriel window Oriel windows are a form of bay window commonly found in Gothic architecture, which project from the main wall of the building but do not reach to the ground. Corbels or brackets are often used to support this kind of window. They are seen in combination with the Tudor arch. This type of window was... , an ogee Ogee An ogee is a curve , shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel.... -headed entrance with an ornately carved tympanum Tympanum (architecture) In architecture, a tympanum is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, bounded by a lintel and arch. It often contains sculpture or other imagery or ornaments. Most architectural styles include this element.... , gargoyle Gargoyle In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between... s, a crow-stepped gable Crow-stepped gable A Stepped gable, Crow-stepped gable, or Corbie step is a stair-step type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building... and intricate tracery Tracery In architecture, Tracery is the stonework elements that support the glass in a Gothic window. The term probably derives from the 'tracing floors' on which the complex patterns of late Gothic windows were laid out.-Plate tracery:... . |
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| Seven Dials Seven Dials, Brighton Seven Dials is an area surrounding a major road junction of the same name in Brighton, in the city of Brighton and Hove. It is located on high ground just northwest of Brighton railway station, and approximately ¾ mile north of the seafront.... 50.8319°N 0.1480°W |
The use of the Regency style Regency architecture The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style... for this semi-detached villa is unusual for such a late date (early 1860s). Inventor Magnus Volk Magnus Volk Magnus Volk was a pioneer British electrical engineer. He is most notable for having built Volk's Electric Railway, the world's oldest extant electric railway. He also built the unique, but short lived, Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, together with its unusual Daddy Long Legs... lived at number 128 for the last 23 years of his life; a blue plaque commemorates this. His former house has three windows to each floor, a porch with Corinthian-style Corinthian order The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order... pilaster Pilaster A pilaster is a slightly-projecting column built into or applied to the face of a wall. Most commonly flattened or rectangular in form, pilasters can also take a half-round form or the shape of any type of column, including tortile.... s and an arch, and an extra hipped-roofed Hip roof A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side... wing at the rear. Number 130 has flat-arched entrance but is otherwise similar. |
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See also
- Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and HoveGrade I listed buildings in Brighton and HoveThere are 24 Grade I listed buildings in the city of Brighton and Hove, England. The city, on the English Channel coast approximately south of London, was formed as a unitary authority in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton and Hove...
- Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
- List of conservation areas in Brighton and Hove