Number 5 And 6 And Attached Railings

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW BARTHOLOMEWS 577-1/64/18 (North side) 20/08/71 Nos.5 AND 6 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: BARTHOLOMEWS Nos.3-5 (consec), No.6)

GV II

Terraced houses and shops. Early C19. Brick in Flemish bond with stucco cement dressing to No.5; stucco to No.6. The roofs are obscured by parapets. EXTERIOR: the former has 4 storeys, the latter 4 with an attic storey added sometime after 1865. 2 windows each. Shops to ground floor. All windows are flat arched. The pair are built to a common design, a description of which follows. Each first-floor window set in an aedicule which consists of a pair of Tuscan pilasters topped by an entablature and pediment. The floor-to-ceiling first-floor windows of No.5 open out onto a shallow balcony formed from the roof of the shopfront below and enclosed by a cast-iron railing in a lattice and star pattern. All upper floor windows of both have architraves and projecting sills. The entablature and projecting cornice to top floor of No.5 continues across No.6 and there is a straight join between the two. No.6 is topped by an added attic storey, itself topped by an entablature and parapet. Stacks to party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 5 and 6 form a group with Nos 1, 3 and 4 Bartholomews (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3114104028