Olivier House And Attached Railings

BRIGHTON

TQ3103NE MARINE PARADE 577-1/47/431 (North side) 20/08/71 No.18 Olivier House and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.20 (part) MADEIRA PLACE. Terraced house, now offices. c1825, converted 1985. Probably designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustus Busby. Stucco with roof of slate. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys above basement. 3 window-range on Marine Parade, the left-hand return to Madeira Place includes the entrance porch and has a 4 window-range. Marine Parade front treated as full-height and full-width segmental bay. Ground floor decorated with banded, chamfered rustication on both fronts. Plain band above second storey. All windows flat-arched, those on first and second floors with architraves. Verandah to first floor, with cast-iron railings and convex roof, recently renewed. Entablature to both fronts with blocking course. Round-arched entry on Madeira Place under porch enclosed by Tuscan antae, with round-arched windows to side walls and elaborate entablature. Fanlight above door. To left of entrance full-height segmental bay with triple windows. 5 new dormers to roof. Stack to front wall in Madeira Place at north end. Cast-iron railings to area. Redevelopment has combined No.18 together with several in Madeira Place, all now forming an office complex called Olivier House. Included in this list is the front wall only of the unit now at the northernmost extent of the Olivier House, with the former address of No.20 Madeira Place. This late C19 office block is of stucco; roof of slate continuous with the rest and dating to c1991. 3 storeys and dormers, with a 2-window range. Italianate style. The elevation dominated by 2 rectangular bays with quadrant corners, that on the left full height and that on the right rising from a carriageway. All openings except the dormers are flat arched with quadrant corners. 2 entrances set between the bay ranges in a ground floor treated as banded and chamfered rustication; keystones to ground-floor openings; ornamented keyed lintels to all upper floor windows. All sashes of an original design. Between the ground and first floors is an entablature band with a frieze of scrolled plaques and masks; plaque above the left entrance inscribed with the words "Hazel House"; cornice merges with base of right-hand bay, the coving from which bay rises being ornamented with a floral spray and a cartouche inscribed with the letters "V.E.Y." arranged in a circle. The entablature band between the first and second floors has a dentil cornice and a garlanded frieze; entablature with dentil cornice repeated at the top of the elevation and topped by a balustrade. The balustrade over the right-hand bay becomes a scroll-crested parapet which is dated 1985. 3 roof dormers. The balustrade, parapet and dormers all date to the 1985 conversion. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3153503967