Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004SW KING'S ROAD
577-1/38/355 (North side)
20/08/71 No.149
Norfolk Resort Hotel

GV II

Hotel. 1865. By Horatio Goulty. Stucco, roof of lead.
EXTERIOR: 5 and 6 storeys over basement, 7-window range. The
ground floor stands forward; central entrance flanked by
Corinthian columns with outer engaged Corinthian columns set
back; ornate keystone over entrance; entablature which breaks
forward twice over the entrance and extends across the whole
front; late C20 glazing; continuous cast-iron railings above
the entablature forming a first-floor balcony. The central
part of the front, 3 windows wide, stands slightly forward,
edged with pilasters treated as quoins. All windows
flat-arched with a segmental archivolt and keystone over. The
second floor has continuous balconies to the centre and wings,
with cast-iron railings between piers; sill band to third
floor windows forming shallow balconies; bracketed eaves
cornice; the centre carried up to a 6th floor with 6 windows
linked by an arcade of engaged columns and segmental
archivolts with keystones, and bracketed eaves cornice; the
side bays have pedimented dormers; broad arcaded side stacks
with bracketed cornices, narrower stacks also with bracketed
cornices either side of centre; mansard roofs of curved
profile.
INTERIOR: the only features to survive are the cantilevered
staircase rising through 4 storeys and a glass dome to the
right of the staircase, decorated with gilded arabesques. The
staircase has cast-iron balusters with monograms, ramped rail
and open decorative string, but no newel; there used to be a
lift in the well of the staircase, and the lift gates remain
as part of the balustrade.

Listing NGR: TQ3002104214

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Norfolk Hotel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16707754

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)