Numbers 1-18 And Attached Railings

Terraced houses on Oriental Place, Brighton, built in 1827 and designed by Amon Henry Wilds. The terrace comprises 18 consecutive houses with attached railings, listed grade II*.

The buildings are constructed in stucco with tile roofs to numbers 1–2 and 14–16, slate roofs to numbers 7, 11 and 13, and the remaining roofs obscured by parapets. Most houses are four storeys over basement, except numbers 7, 11 and 13–16 which are three storeys. Dormers feature on numbers 1–3, 7, 11 and 13–16. Each house has a three-window range.

The terrace is arranged roughly symmetrically, with matching ranges on either side of a centrepiece. All houses share common features: ground floor decoration with banded rustication; round-arched entrances with fanlights; two round-arched windows to the ground floor with springing bands and blank balustrades to aprons; continuous first-floor balconies with cast-iron railings; flat-arched windows above ground level; entablatures over second-floor windows; attic storeys or dormers set in mansard roofs; stacks positioned at party walls; and cast-iron railings to steps and areas with conical finials.

The different ranges are distinguished by varying architectural treatments. The centrepiece of numbers 8–10 spans nine windows and features giant fluted pilasters with ammonite capitals to the first and second floors, a storey band between those floors, plain pilasters between attic windows, and a stepped and panelled pediment over five central windows. Numbers 7 and 11 form a three-window range without pilasters but with a storey band between first and second floors. Numbers 6 and 12 form a three-window range with giant fluted pilasters with ammonite capitals to first and second floors, storey band, entablature, pediment, plain pilasters between attic windows, cornice and blocking course. Numbers 3–5 and 13–16 feature round-arched architraves over first-floor windows with shell moulds in the tympana, along with entablatures and blocking courses. Numbers 1–2, and parts of numbers 3 and 16, plus numbers 17–18 form a seven-window range with fluted giant pilasters with ammonite capitals to first and second floors, storey band, entablature, pediments over central windows, and attic storeys with pilasters between windows.

Many individual houses retain features of original design, including panelled doors at numbers 1–3, 7, 8, 10 and 17; original sashes at numbers 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12; decorative glazing to the fanlight at number 7; and individual cast-iron balconies at number 5.

Number 18 has a return elevation in Sillwood Place, comprising a five-window range. This elevation features a central round-arched entrance with fanlight and original panelled door, round-arched windows to the ground floor and flat-arched windows above, flanked by giant Doric pilasters with a fluted ammonite column at the corner, an entablature, and pilasters to the attic storey. Several windows on this return are blind.

The interior has not been inspected.