Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NW EAST STREET
577-1/46/1161 (East side)
11/03/87 No.80
Clarendon Mansions

II

Hotel, now flats. 1869. Built for the Brighton Hotel Company.
Stucco with stone dressings, roof of asbestos tiles.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and attic over basement. 14 window range
on the principal front which curves round from East Street
into Grand Junction Road. All windows flat-arched. Flat-arched
entrance in East Street, the doorpiece consisting of pilasters
supporting console brackets to the first-floor balustrade
above. To the right of the entrance and into Grand Junction
Road is an irregular sequence of paired windows and entrances;
vermiculation below the windows; rusticated piers and mullions
above, the piers having pilasters on their faces which run up
into acanthus brackets in the fascia. To the left of the
principal entrance the ground floor is treated as for a public
house with a round-arched entrance at the chamfered corner
with Brill's Lane, the spandrels filled with foliage ornament
and a keystone supporting the belly of an oriel recessed under
a wave-moulded corbel, and fully-glazed bays to either side
with cast-iron ornament above the fascia, The ground-floor
treatment also extends for one bay from Grand Junction Road
into the other end of Brill's Lane, with a glazed verandah
added to the first floor. First-floor windows have moulded
architraves and blind boxes in all but outermost 2 in East
Street and outermost 3 in Grand Junction Road. On this and the
floor above 8 of the windows are grouped in pairs to the right
of the principal entrance. The second-floor windows have a
sill band which breaks forward in the form of balconies with
cast-iron balustrades, the balconies to the paired windows
being shared; all with moulded architraves and blind boxes;
moulded storey band; bracketed sills to third-floor windows
except for the extreme left-hand window in East Street which
is a recessed bay; cornice; parapet surmounted by a balustrade
which is interrupted by the gabled dormers in the mansard
roof. Multiple ridge stacks at intervals.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3119503879

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660671

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