Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3203NW BLOOMSBURY PLACE
577-1/48/53 (West side)
20/08/71 Nos.1-13 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
BLOOMSBURY PLACE
Nos.1-13 (consec), Nos.16-31
(consec))

GV II

Terraced houses. Early C19. Stucco. Roof obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement. One window each. Up stairs
to round-arched entrance of each. First-floor balconies with
cast-iron railings; cast-iron brackets to all but No.6. Entry
to No.7 more elaborate than any other in the group: it is
round arched and flanked by fluted Tuscan pilasters with
vermiculated keystone; No.8 has an aedicule of similar design
but with unfluted Tuscan columns; No.13 has a flat-arched
entrance with overlight. Original door lintels and decorative
glazing to fanlights of Nos 2, and 8-10. Segmental bay to side
of each entrance; ground floors have banded rustication. Above
each is a first-floor segmental bay with tripartite windows,
this bay broader than that below and on a different axis,
being centred; cornice with shallow semi-dome metal roof,
tripartite windows. All windows flat arched.
The original elevations of many were altered in mid to late
C19 by the addition of canted bays of various sizes and
ornamental elaborateness; all second generation bays have
tripartite, flat-arched windows and are centred about the axis
of the original first floor bay. No.1 has a canted bay to the
second floor; No.2 to ground and first floors; Nos 4, and
10-12 to the second and third floors. At Nos 7, 8, and 13, a
full-height canted bay has entirely replaced the early C19
ground- and first-floor bays. Nos 7 and 8 have in addition
full-height, quarter Tuscan piers at the join of the bay with
front wall, single-storey Tuscan pilasters to the corners of
the bay, vermiculated keystones to lintels, cornices to first
through third floors, and a continuous storey band between
first and second floors as well as an entablature to second
floor and attic.
Individual features include: storey band between second and
third floors on Nos 1 and 2; attic sill band to No.9. There is
a full or partial cornice and a parapet to the block; No.7's
is treated as the central section of a pediment pierced by 2
round-arched windows, suggesting that, as was the case with
Nos 19-31, units near the centre of the row were treated as a
central pedimented bay. Sashes of original design to: ground
floor of Nos 1 and 9; first floor of Nos 1, 3, 6, and 9;
second floor of Nos 3, 6, and 9; and third floor of Nos 3, 5,
6, and 9. Stacks to party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Railings to stairs and areas. Nos 1-13 form a group with Nos
15-31 Bloomsbury Place (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3230603790

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660219

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