Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004SW SILLWOOD ROAD
577-1/38/856 (West side)
27/05/86 Nos.32-47 (Consecutive)
and attached walls and railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c1870. By Thomas Lainson. Stucco, roofs of
slate.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement, 2-window range except No.39
which is of 3-window range and double-fronted. The houses are
arranged in pairs, porches to the inside, bays to the outside.
Steps up to flat-arched entrance with overlight; canted bay to
basement, ground and first floors; ground-floor verandah with
swept metal roof carried on cast-iron columns, with openwork
to the spandrels, and cast-iron railings continuing, in most
cases, as railings to front steps; flat-arched windows to
ground and first floor, the angle piers to the bays treated as
pilasters on the first floor; frieze of heart-shaped anthemia;
cast-iron window guards to first-floor windows; dentil cornice
and blocking course to bay, carrying cast-iron railings to
form a balcony to the outer second-floor window; these are
round-arched with spandrel motifs in the stucco; all windows
have sashes without glazing bars; bracketed eaves cornice and
blocking course; corniced stacks, many with original trefoiled
slabs between flues. Stuccoed and coped walls to front garden
with square, corniced piers to gate and between properties,
the wall surmounted in many cases by a low cusped cast-iron
rail. No.35 lacks garden wall to front in part, No.36 wholly
at the front, and no cornice to stacks; No.39 has sidelights
as well as overlights to doorcase and central first-floor
window flanked by pilasters, and lacks garden wall to front in
part. The terrace is particularly well preserved.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3027204339

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661096

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