Numbers 1-23 And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NE CLIFTON TERRACE 577-1/32/165 (North side) 13/10/52 Nos.1-23 (Consecutive) and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Includes: No.18 VINE PLACE. Terraced houses. c1850. Stucco, roof of Welsh and artificial slate, No.4 turnerised. EXTERIOR: Nos 1-11, 15-21 and 23 two storeys over basement with dormers, No.22 two storeys over basement; Nos 12-14 three storeys over basement with dormers; Nos 2-13 and 15-20 one-and-a-half-window range with a central blank shared window; Nos 1, 14, 21-23 three-window range, the central window blank on Nos 1 and 14; Nos 1, 14, 22 and 23 double-fronted. The terrace is roughly symmetrical, with Nos 12-14 forming a taller, central group; all houses have shared porches, except for Nos 1, 14 and 21-23 which have single porches. Segmental-arched porch framing flat-arched entrance, the double porches having simply 2 flat-arched entrances with overlights, Nos 14, 21 and 22 having flat-arched entrances with sidelights, and overlight on Nos 21 and 22; No.1 has a flat-arched entrance in basement and former entrance blocked; No.23 has a flat-arched entrance under cornice on consoles in a wing set back to the left. Canted bay to ground floor with concave canopy and cornice to Nos 1-11, 15-23; Nos 12-14 have bays but no canopy; tripartite windows over bay to first floor except to No.10, now altered; central window to each pair blank, except to Nos 21-22; Nos 12-14 have moulded stucco architrave and pediment to central blank window, floating cornice to other first floor windows, tripartite windows to second floor, central window blank; window-guards to Nos 4 (ground floor), 8 (first floor), 10 (ground floor), 13 (ground floor), 15 (ground floor); bracketed eaves cornice, the brackets to Nos 1-11 and 15-23 in the form of consoles supporting modillions; dormers in roof except to No.22, that to No.20 being of late C19 or early C20 date with decorative panels and pedimented cornice; stacks to party walls. No.23 has left-hand return with 2-window range; and No.18 Vine Place adjoins No.23 Clifton Terrace. INTERIOR: not inspected. Cast-iron railings to steps with spear-and-tassel finials. Stuccoed dwarf garden walls with moulded coping and rusticated corniced gate piers, remarkably well preserved.

Listing NGR: TQ3056904631