Number 44 And Attached Railings

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NW OLD STEINE 577-1/46/630 (South side) 13/10/52 No.44 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: OLD STEINE Nos.44 TO 46)

GV II

Terraced houses. Late C18, rebuilt in late C20, during conversion into office block (Nos 45 & 46 now part of No.44). Mathematical tiles, stucco to left return. Roof of slate. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with added roof storey, over basement. The following description will treat the block as built, that is, as 3 units referred to as left, centre and right. Round-arched entrances with 6-panelled doors. Entrance to left has architrave interrupted by keystone; corner of jamb and archivolt has a roll chamfer and is subordered; plain archivolts and jambs. Entrances to centre and right have panelled jambs and archivolts; the arches have architraves with a diminutive keystone; the doors are flanked by attached Tuscan columns, each with an entablature block supporting a pediment of raking cornices only. To left of each entrance rises a full-height, canted bay with flat-arched, tripartite windows. Sashes of original design installed during restoration. Cornice to ground floor of each bay, plain spandrels above. Storey bands of plain wood bands between ground and first floors and between first and second floors; parapet with metal flashing. Railings to entrances and areas. Return has 2-window range; rusticated ground floor topped by storey band; one round-arched window near corner, spandrel below recessed; the rest of the windows flat arched; storey band between first and second floors. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 44 and 47 (qv) form a group together with Royal York Buildings (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3121803960