Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW ST JAMES'S PLACE
577-1/40/799 (East side)
20/08/71 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

II

Terraced houses. Early C19. Flint in pitch with painted brick
dressings to Nos 1, 4, 5 and 6, No.5 having in addition a
segmental bay faced with mathematical tile; No.3 unpainted
flints with red-brick dressings and stucco to segmental bay;
No.2 refaced in C20 with brick in stretcher bond, retaining
one original brick quoin strip at right party wall.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement except where stated
otherwise. 3-window range to main block of each unit, several
of which have extensions: No.1 has single-storey addition;
No.2 with an additional window range and a low utility shed;
No.4 has a 2-storey addition and a second entrance set in
single storey porch; No.6 with additional window range. Group
of houses designed originally with a greater degree of
picturesqueness than is usual in terraces of this date.
The end units, Nos 1 and 6, are of nearly identical design:
round-arched entrance set in centre of each elevation, the
door framed by attached Tuscan columns which support an
entablature lintel with modillioned cornice; fanlight with
decorative glazing; window to either side of entrance; all
windows are camber arched and dressed in brick; brick quoin
strips at corners and party walls; many sashes of original
design, in first- and third-window range of ground and first
floors, 8 x 8, above in second floor 4 x 4, in centre-window
range above door, 6 x 6 in first floor and 3 x 3 in second;
basement windows to either side of door are camber arched with
4 x 8 sashes of original design; brick quoin strips to corners
and party walls; modillioned cornice to eaves.
No.4 of similar design, except that tripartite, flat-arched
windows inserted in first- and third-window ranges in late
C19. Furthermore No.4 has 2 additional storeys of later C19,
and a tile-covered pitched roof; painted brick in Flemish
bond; round-arched entrance in side extension which is also of
brick; brick window lintels. No.5 has full-height segmental
bay to left of entrance; tripartite, flat-arched windows with
sashes of original design: 6 x 6 to centre and 3 x 3 to sides;
third-window range narrower than comparable range in Nos 1 and
6, having the same width of centre range, with sashes of
original design: 6 x 6 to ground- and first-floor windows, and
3 x 3 to second-floor windows. Nos 2 and 3 are the most
altered. To No.2 tripartite, camber-arched windows and sashes
of original design to first- and third-window range, to ground
and first floors, 6 x 6 to centre and 2 x 2 to sides, and to
second floor 3 x 3 to centre and 1 x 1 to sides; flat-arched
entrance with door framed by attached Tuscan columns, in turn
framed by Tuscan pilasters; above entrance are a pair of
corbels supporting a 2-storey rectangular bay; flat-arched
windows with quadrant corners to bay; 3 storey extension,
brick in Flemish bond, with 2 round-arched windows to ground
floor, the right one blocked; rectangular bay to first floor
of extension, camber-arched window with 3 x 3 sashes of
original design. To No.3 a flat-arched entrance framed by
Tuscan pilasters and entablature, the latter has a frieze
decorated with laurel wreaths; to either side of entrance
rises a full-height segmental bay with tripartite, flat-arched
windows having quadrant corners; Tuscan pilasters and responds
to bays which are surfaced in stucco; second floor heightened
by stucco parapet; camber-arched windows in entrance range,
with gauged brick lintels and brick keystone; red brick quoin
strips to party walls and at sides of bays. Stacks to party
and end walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Cast-iron railings to small front gardens, areas and
entrances.

Listing NGR: TQ3143804102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661014

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