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31 and 32, Cannon Place

A Grade II Listed Building in Brighton and Hove, The City of Brighton and Hove

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8224 / 50°49'20"N

Longitude: -0.1479 / 0°8'52"W

OS Eastings: 530551

OS Northings: 104179

OS Grid: TQ305041

Mapcode National: GBR JP3.CDZ

Mapcode Global: FRA B6LX.L6W

Plus Code: 9C2XRVC2+XR

Entry Name: 31 and 32, Cannon Place

Listing Date: 13 October 1952

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1380048

English Heritage Legacy ID: 479522

ID on this website: 101380048

Location: Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN1

County: The City of Brighton and Hove

Electoral Ward/Division: Regency

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove

Traditional County: Sussex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex

Church of England Parish: Brighton St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Chichester

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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

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