Description

1.
5277 BERKLEY CRESCENT

Nos 1 to 9 (consec)
TQ 6474 SE 1/19
TQ 6574 SW 2/19

II GV

2.
The crescent is part of the Milton Park Estate designed by the Brighton Architect,
Amon Henry Wilds in 1830-35. There was originally intended to be another crescent
facing it on the south side of Milton Road. 2 blocks of 5 houses each separated
by Harmer Street. No 10 has been merged in No 9. 3 storeys l0 windows to the
curved face of the east block and 11 windows to the curved face of the west block.
Nos 5 and 6 have 4 windows each facing Harmer Street, No 1 has 3 windows in its
flat front facing Milton Road and No 9 has 2 windows similarly. The houses are
faced with brown brick, the ground floor stuccoed. Painted cornice and parapet.
Slate roof. Glazing bars intact above the lst floor. Originally there was a
projecting stuccoed colonnade along the ground floor with iron balcony above for
the whole length of both blocks, but this only remains at Nos 4 and 5. All except
Nos 4, 5 and 8 have had modern shopfronts inserted. When this colonnade was complete
the Crescent must have been very similar in character to Decimus Burton's Calverley
Park Crescent at Tunbridge Wells.

Nos 1 to 9 (consec) form a group together with Nos 1 to 45 (odd), and 47A, 2 to 48 (even)
Harmer Street and the British Tar Public House, Milton Road, (The British Tar Public
House is a local interest building.

Listing NGR: TQ6499074096

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26625580

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)