Number 56 and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1985. House. 6 related planning applications.
Number 56 and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings
- WRENN ID
- mired-vestry-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 56 and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings, Old Steine, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1NH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 312 040
- Coordinates
- 50.82121, -0.13807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 56 is a house built in 1875, possibly as an extension of an earlier structure, with external embellishments added in the early 20th century. It features a stucco exterior and a parapeted roof. The building has three storeys and an attic over a basement, with a five-window range on the main elevation and a two-window range on the return.
The main facade is symmetrically arranged around a round-arched entrance with a fanlight, accessed by a short flight of steps. This entrance is topped by a broken segmental pediment supported by console brackets, with a scrolled finial in the tympanum. On either side of the entrance, there are a pair of round-arched windows with fluted keystones that extend below the sill to enclose a spandrel panel decorated with volutes and swags. The ornamental treatment of the ground floor, which may date to the early 20th century, is in a late 18th-century French style and features banded rustication. Storey bands separate all floors.
The upper-floor windows are flat arched, with the first-floor windows being floor-to-ceiling and featuring eared architraves. Each second-floor window has a cornice supported by console brackets above it. An entablature with a projecting cornice is located below a balustraded parapet. On the ground floor of the return, there is one round-arched window similar to those on the main facade, while the remaining windows are flat arched, each with a cornice on the first and second floors. Additionally, there is a round-arched entrance set at the rear of the return within a rusticated aedicule. The property also includes cast-iron railings to the area and piers.
Local climate
Number 56 and Attached Walls and Piers and Railings 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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