Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NE MARINE PARADE
577-1/47/431 (North side)
20/08/71 No.18
Olivier House and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.20 (part) MADEIRA PLACE.
Terraced house, now offices. c1825, converted 1985. Probably
designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustus Busby. Stucco with
roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys above basement. 3 window-range on Marine
Parade, the left-hand return to Madeira Place includes the
entrance porch and has a 4 window-range.
Marine Parade front treated as full-height and full-width
segmental bay. Ground floor decorated with banded, chamfered
rustication on both fronts. Plain band above second storey.
All windows flat-arched, those on first and second floors with
architraves. Verandah to first floor, with cast-iron railings
and convex roof, recently renewed. Entablature to both fronts
with blocking course.
Round-arched entry on Madeira Place under porch enclosed by
Tuscan antae, with round-arched windows to side walls and
elaborate entablature. Fanlight above door. To left of
entrance full-height segmental bay with triple windows. 5 new
dormers to roof. Stack to front wall in Madeira Place at north
end. Cast-iron railings to area.
Redevelopment has combined No.18 together with several in
Madeira Place, all now forming an office complex called
Olivier House. Included in this list is the front wall only of
the unit now at the northernmost extent of the Olivier House,
with the former address of No.20 Madeira Place.
This late C19 office block is of stucco; roof of slate
continuous with the rest and dating to c1991. 3 storeys and
dormers, with a 2-window range. Italianate style. The
elevation dominated by 2 rectangular bays with quadrant
corners, that on the left full height and that on the right
rising from a carriageway. All openings except the dormers are
flat arched with quadrant corners.
2 entrances set between the bay ranges in a ground floor
treated as banded and chamfered rustication; keystones to
ground-floor openings; ornamented keyed lintels to all upper
floor windows.
All sashes of an original design. Between the ground and first
floors is an entablature band with a frieze of scrolled
plaques and masks; plaque above the left entrance inscribed
with the words "Hazel House"; cornice merges with base of
right-hand bay, the coving from which bay rises being
ornamented with a floral spray and a cartouche inscribed with
the letters "V.E.Y." arranged in a circle. The entablature
band between the first and second floors has a dentil cornice
and a garlanded frieze; entablature with dentil cornice
repeated at the top of the elevation and topped by a
balustrade. The balustrade over the right-hand bay becomes a
scroll-crested parapet which is dated 1985. 3 roof dormers.
The balustrade, parapet and dormers all date to the 1985
conversion.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3153503967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661803

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