Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3203NE GREAT COLLEGE STREET
577-1/49/321 (North side)
No.53
and attached walls and railings

II

Includes: Nos.17 AND 19 and attached walls and railings ABBEY
ROAD.
Terraced houses. Mid C19. Stucco. Roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: composed of 2 blocks, that to corner has 2 storeys
with a 3-window range on the entrance elevation in Great
College Street and a 2-window range to return. Block to north
along Abbey Road has 3 storeys and a 2-window range; the whole
treated as if it were a tower to the main block. Italianate
style. Flat-arched entrance with overlight on Great College
Street; door of original design; entrance porch with piers in
antis; entablature with bracketed cornice and blocking course
above. To the right a single-storey canted bay with
tripartite, Tuscan pilaster strips at corners and joins with
wall; entablature with bracketed cornice and blocking course.
All windows flat arched. The ground floor has banded,
chamfered rustication. First-floor windows with projecting
sills. Cornice strip from which brackets spring to support
deep eaves; shields in the frieze between each pair of
brackets. Ground floor rustication and bracketed eaves
continue to return, where there is full-height canted bay with
tripartite windows to first floor, French doors to garden;
bracketed cornice between ground and first floors of bay only.
To right of bay round-arched entrance with a window above. On
Abbey Road a flat-arched entrance next to which is 2-storey
canted bay with Tuscan pilasters at corners and joins with
front wall, tripartite window to each floor; bracketed cornice
between the ground and first floor of the bay only; first
floor terminates in entablature. Cornice springing band for
broad bracketed eaves as on lower block. Stacks to centre and
party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Railings and low wall to front garden. Abbey Road house was
once the home of Henry Abbey, Mayor of Brighton in 1875.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 58).

Listing NGR: TQ3254903873

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660738

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