Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004SE CANNON PLACE
577-1/39/106 (West side)
13/10/52 Nos.31 AND 32

GV II

Terraced houses, No.31 now incorporating the frontage, in St
Margaret's Place, of the former Royal Newburgh Assembly Rooms,
of c1833, designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustine Busby
for Charles Wright, a bookseller and librarian. Stucco, roofs
obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement, one-window range to Cannon
Place, 7-window range to St Margaret's Place. In Cannon Place,
No.32 has a flat-arched entrance in outer bay with overlight;
all windows flat-arched; full-height segmental bay with
tripartite windows, bracketed balcony to first floor,
principal cornice to second floor, secondary cornice to third
floor; parapet. The Cannon Place front of No.31 is similar but
with the segmental bay only. In St Margaret's Place: portico
to 3 central bays; outer antae, the capitals decorated with
palmette ornament, inner engaged columns with capitals of
acanthus and palm leaf ornament, entablature and pediment with
dentil cornice; flat-arched entrance with architrave, cornice
and storey band over; all windows flat-arched; first floor
windows with architraves, others without; cornice and blocking
course.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3055104179

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660263

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)