20, Western Road is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. Dwelling over shop. 1 related planning application.
20, Western Road
- WRENN ID
- small-hammer-willow
- 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
- Dwelling over shop
- Address
- 20, Western Road, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN3 1AE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 044
- Coordinates
- 50.82534, -0.15724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Western Road is a dwelling over a shop, built between 1824 and 1830, and is attributed to architects Amon Wilds and Charles Augustus Busby. The building features a stucco exterior over brick and rubble, with a hipped or pyramid concrete tile roof that is concealed behind a parapet. It has a curved corner frontage at the junction of Western Road and Upper Market Street, standing three storeys high with one bay. Ionic pilasters frame the curved corner and the window bay facing Western Road. The plinths are interrupted by an inserted fascia for a 36-pane bow window with a shallow half-dome. The ground floor has been gutted to accommodate a late 20th-century shopfront. The left side of the building, which faces Upper Market Street, includes narrow bay windows with late 20th-century glazing and a late 20th-century panel door, accessed by a flight of steps. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
20, Western Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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