Numbers 25 And 27 And Attached Railings

Two houses, built around 1843 to 1845. They were likely designed by the Brighton architect Amon Henry Wilds. The houses are constructed of stucco with a hipped slate roof and overhanging eaves. Each house has two storeys and a rusticated semi-basement, with two bays each. Tall, fluted Ionic pilasters rise through the ground and first floors, framing the inner bay of each house and supporting segmental arches over the first-floor windows. The outer entrance bays are slightly recessed, with steps leading to a square Ionic porch featuring a deep entablature and matching pilasters on either side of the door. The windows are sash windows; those in the inner bays have segmental heads, while those above the porch are round-headed within shallow round-arched recesses. A string course runs above the basement. Decorative cast-iron grilles are present on the ground-floor windows. The interior remains uninspected. The property includes area railings and rails to the porch. The houses are part of a group of nine identical, semi-detached pairs facing a similar row of four; numbers 1-35 (odd) and 24-38 (even) form the group.