Description

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TQ 7908 NE
10/196

St Leonards on Sea
MARINA
No 57 (Crown House)

(Formerly listed under THE MARINA, St Leonards)

19.1.51

GV
II*
1828 by James Burton. Renamed Victoria House after Princess Victoria and Duchess of Kent stayed here in 1834-35. Recently restored.

Detached two storey building. Painted stucco. Ground floor: central recessed door and three-light sash windows in slightly recessed segmental headed panels, separated by four wide panelled piers.

First floor: four pairs of coupled, fluted Ionic columns, supporting entablature with wide cornice and parapet with pedimented centre. This first floor colonnade forms a verandah with delicate wrought iron railing in front of central tall sash with cornice and flanking canted bay windows with paired pilasters between. Part of James Burton's design for St Leonards.

Nos 36 to 44 (consec) and No 40A (Eastern Colonnade), Royal Victoria Hotel, Nos 48 to 53 (consec) (Western Colonnade), No 57 and Nos 60 to 62 (consec) form a group, of which Nos 60, 61 and 62 are of local interest only.

Listing NGR: TQ7976908817

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Crown House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17555459

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)