The Prince Albert Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Prince Albert Public House

WRENN ID
grey-balcony-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
Public house
Address
The Prince Albert Public House, 48, Trafalgar Street, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 4EQ
OS grid reference
TQ 310 048
Coordinates
50.82844, -0.14068
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Prince Albert Public House is a public house built around 1845. It features a stucco exterior with a roof obscured by a parapet. The building has three storeys and a three-window range, and it is double-fronted.

The entrance is flat-arched and flanked by pilasters and an entablature. The ground and first floors were originally flanked by giant pilasters; the outer pair has palmette ornamentation on the capitals, while the inner pair is Ionic. On the left side, these pilasters remain intact, and the ground-floor window retains its original flat-arched form with pilasters and an entablature. However, alterations were made on the right side, likely in the late 19th century, resulting in a broad, flat-arched window with quadrant corners, framed by rusticated pilasters and a cornice that replaces part of the original pilasters.

The first-floor windows are round-arched, featuring pilasters, an archivolt, and a console as a keystone. There is a broad entablature with a dentil cornice and an attic storey with a secondary cornice. The first- and second-floor windows have sashes of original design, and the parapet steps up at the centre and has its own cornice. There are side stacks, and the late 19th-century treatment of the ground floor is echoed in Frederick Place, where there are two flat-arched entrances.

Inside, the ground floor has dados made of tongue-and-groove boarding, and there is a dogleg staircase with a turned newel, stick balusters, and an open string.

Local climate

The Prince Albert Public House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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