Description

TQ3004SW
577-1/38/968

BRIGHTON
WESTERN ROAD (South side)
Nos.95 and 96
Eastern part of former Debenham's store and attached wall

(Formerly listed as Eastern part of Debenham's store and attached wall, previously listed as: WESTERN ROAD, Nos.95 AND 96 Plummers)

13/10/52

GV
II
Formerly known as: Priory Lodge WESTERN ROAD.
Formerly known as: The Gothic House WESTERN ROAD.
Includes: Nos.1, 2 AND 3 WESTERN TERRACE.

House, now eastern part of Debenham's store. 1822-25. By Amon Wilds and Charles Augustus Busby. Stucco, roofs of slate.

EXTERIOR: two and three storeys, sx-window range to Western Road. The building is most easily understood in three parts.

(1) The original front to Western Road: C20 shop front to ground floor; above that an octagonal tower with offset buttresses terminating in pinnacles; on the first floor of the tower, pointed-arched windows glazed as two lancets under hoodmoulds with heads as stops to north and north-west faces; frieze of shields as storey band; above there are segmental-pointed-arched windows with hoodmoulds and heads as stops, those to the north and north-east faces blind, north-west window glazed as two cusped lancets; embattled parapet between pinnacles, with blind lancets and quatrefoils; then a single-window bay to right with similar windows, storey band continuing and roll-moulding to parapet; then, coming forward, another single-window bay flanked by octagonal piers with blind arcading, first-floor window C20, storey band continuing, second floor window as on the tower but with no head as stop, low gable with roll-moulding; finally a single window bay added in 1880 with canted bay to first floor, springing band, sill band to second floor window which is flat with a hoodmould and glazing probably altered.

(2) The fronts of the original building in Western Terrace, so far as visible: early C20 shop detailing to ground floor; octagonal pier to south-east corner, terminating in an embattled pinnacle above the original parapet; five-sided bay to first floor, probably of C20 date under a gable decorated with squared quatrefoils; to right of that a canted bay probably three sides of a former tower with lancet windows to first floor with hoodmoulds and head stops, the whole bay glazed to the second floor; there are also visible, above the early C20 extension (3), a gable decorated as at the south end, and the remains of an octagonal pier decorated with blind arcading.

(3) A two storey shop extension at the corner of Western Road and Western Terrace, effectively blocking the corner of the original buildings: early C20 in date, with late C20 shop front to Western Road and front part of Western Terrace; former continuously-glazed restaurant to first floor in Western Road with flattened bow window to centre; frieze lettered 'RESTAURANT' carried round the bow; stepped and balustraded parapet; the southern part of this extension in Western Terrace has an entrance, now a window, under a shell-moulded canopy; to the left a partly blind segmental arcade of three bays between rusticated pilasters with lugged panels to the lower part and flat-arched windows above; first floor has three flat-arched windows under an entablature and balustraded parapet; south front similarly detailed but now much altered.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Wall to south end in Western Terrace with segmental-arched gateway under console to north and two gateways to south, one flat and late C20 in date the other four-centred with splayed jambs.

Listing NGR: TQ3024504416

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Gothic House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15221946

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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