No 21 Including Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. House.
No 21 Including Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- scattered-string-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Hove and Portslade MP: Peter Kyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- No 21 Including Walls and Railings, Second Avenue, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 044
- Coordinates
- 50.82543, -0.16698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21, including the walls and railings, is a house that has been divided into flats, built between 1878 and 1879. It features yellow stock bricks with a significant use of moulded bricks and quoins, along with some stone dressings. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in bitumen, with hipped slate and mansard roofs over the bays. Tall brick stacks with corbel coping are located on the returns.
The house is double-fronted and has a billiard room wing. It stands three storeys high, plus an attic over a basement, and has a symmetrical façade with three bays, one bay, and three bays. All the windows are square-headed sash windows without glazing bars, and the cills are supported by shaped brackets with cast-iron window box guards. There is a gabled attic dormer on the left and a canted bay on the left with a corbel cornice, which continues as dog-tooth detailing to the right. The first floor features window openings with lugged corners, and there are continuous pointed arch hoodmoulds above the windows with roundels above the openings.
The central bays are connected by a monopitch roofed balcony, which has one and two half-bays supported by ornate cast-iron columns and balustrading. The ground floor window openings also have similar lugged corners, and there is a flat-roofed three-bay addition on the right, believed to be the billiard room. The entrance is segmental-headed, with an original leaded fanlight and panelled double doors, approached by a flight of steps with a tessellated pavement.
The property is enclosed by cast-iron railings set in a low brick wall, and there is a brick wall fronting the road with square brick piers.
Local climate
No 21 Including Walls and Railings receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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