Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NE CLIFTON TERRACE
577-1/32/165 (North side)
13/10/52 Nos.1-23 (Consecutive)
and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Includes: No.18 VINE PLACE.
Terraced houses. c1850. Stucco, roof of Welsh and artificial
slate, No.4 turnerised.
EXTERIOR: Nos 1-11, 15-21 and 23 two storeys over basement
with dormers, No.22 two storeys over basement; Nos 12-14 three
storeys over basement with dormers; Nos 2-13 and 15-20
one-and-a-half-window range with a central blank shared
window; Nos 1, 14, 21-23 three-window range, the central
window blank on Nos 1 and 14; Nos 1, 14, 22 and 23
double-fronted. The terrace is roughly symmetrical, with Nos
12-14 forming a taller, central group; all houses have shared
porches, except for Nos 1, 14 and 21-23 which have single
porches.
Segmental-arched porch framing flat-arched entrance, the
double porches having simply 2 flat-arched entrances with
overlights, Nos 14, 21 and 22 having flat-arched entrances
with sidelights, and overlight on Nos 21 and 22; No.1 has a
flat-arched entrance in basement and former entrance blocked;
No.23 has a flat-arched entrance under cornice on consoles in
a wing set back to the left. Canted bay to ground floor with
concave canopy and cornice to Nos 1-11, 15-23; Nos 12-14 have
bays but no canopy; tripartite windows over bay to first floor
except to No.10, now altered; central window to each pair
blank, except to Nos 21-22; Nos 12-14 have moulded stucco
architrave and pediment to central blank window, floating
cornice to other first floor windows, tripartite windows to
second floor, central window blank; window-guards to Nos 4
(ground floor), 8 (first floor), 10 (ground floor), 13 (ground
floor), 15 (ground floor); bracketed eaves cornice, the
brackets to Nos 1-11 and 15-23 in the form of consoles
supporting modillions; dormers in roof except to No.22, that
to No.20 being of late C19 or early C20 date with decorative
panels and pedimented cornice; stacks to party walls. No.23
has left-hand return with 2-window range; and No.18 Vine Place
adjoins No.23 Clifton Terrace.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Cast-iron railings to steps with spear-and-tassel finials.
Stuccoed dwarf garden walls with moulded coping and rusticated
corniced gate piers, remarkably well preserved.

Listing NGR: TQ3056904631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660610

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