Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW NEW ROAD
577-1/40/566 (West side)
20/08/71 Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)
including colonnade to Nos 6 and 7
(Formerly Listed as:
NEW ROAD
(West side)
Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)
(including colonnade in front) and
10 (The Colonnade Public House))

II

Formerly known as: Nos 3-8 (consec) & No 10 Colonnade Hotel
(incl. colonnade in front) NEW ROAD.
Includes: Nos.159-161 NORTH STREET.
Terraced houses, now shops and offices. Early C19, refaced in
the early C20; the Royal Colonnade added in 1823 by the
architects Cooper and Lynn.
Brick in Flemish bond with stucco dressings; corner houses
faced in stucco. Roof parapeted.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic over basement.
The following description begins with the units on New Road,
which range gives the best impression of the original scheme,
in which the units, of one window each, were paired. Each
pair, Nos 2-3, 4-5, and 6-7, framed by a panelled giant
pilaster, stretching from the first to attic floors, at the
party walls; panelled capitals filled with an anthemion frieze
and fountain motif; No.1 is paired with the short return of
No.161 North Street. All the first-floor bays have
flat-arched, tripartite windows: those to Nos 1-5
(consecutive) are shallow, segmental and dated to the early
C20, when the Royal Colonnade was removed.
Cooper and Lynn's scheme remains on Nos 6 and 7, which retain
not only 2 bays of the Colonnade but also the broad
semicircular bays.
The Royal Colonnade stretched around the corner into North
Street. The 2 bays of it which survive adequately record the
design: composed of paired Ionic columns on socles, the bay in
front of each unit was very broad and elliptical arched; the
coupled columns were placed on the line of each party wall and
spanned by a narrow round arch; the balcony thus formed was
completely enclosed by cast-iron railings, which are extant on
Nos 6 and 7; the elliptical arch which turned the corner to
North Street was exceptionally broad.
Between the bays to Nos 4 and 5 is a round-arched niche and,
in the floors above, a blocked flat-arched window. All windows
are flat-arched with projecting sills; the second-floor
windows have, in addition, floating cornices of a blocky,
Greek-Revival style, each supported by a pair of fluted
console brackets. Continuous cornice and parapet above. In the
centre of the pair formed by Nos 6 and 7 is a raised, panelled
parapet. Some sashes of original design: the second floors of
Nos 2, 4, 5, and 7 have 8 x 8 sashes, Nos 3 and 6 have the top
sash of 8 panes only; attic of No.7 has 4 x 4 sashes.
On North Street only No.159 preserves the original elevation
outlined above: on the first floor of the party wall with
No.160 is a round-arched niche, similar to those found on New
Road, but half filled with the stucco cement render which
covers the rest of the units to the corner; above this niche,
one blocked and half-obscured window to each floor.
The first floor of those stucco-rendered units is treated as
banded rustication with full-height rusticated pilasters on
party walls between Nos 160 and 161 and at corner of No.161.
There is a rusticated storey band between second and attic
floors of the rendered range.
No.161 is the widest of the 3 North-Street houses and has a
2-window range, its second floor and attic having a 3-window
range, the centre narrower than the sides. There is a
projecting cornice to all rendered sections. An entablature to
No.161 in curved corner range.
The return of No.161 in New Road has a 2-window range which
concludes, on the party wall with No.1 New Road, in a
rusticated pilaster. Stacks to party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Nos 3-8 (consec) were listed on 20.8.71.

Listing NGR: TQ3111204252

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660318

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)