Number 15 And Attached Railings

Number 15 is an early 19th-century terraced house, with additions made in the late 19th or early 20th century. It is located in Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton. The house is stucco, with cobbles coated in pitch, and brick. It is four stories high, with a half basement, and has a single-window range. The basement is scored to resemble ashlar, above which are cobbles coated in pitch. A segmental bay rises from the ground to the second floor, featuring flat-arched tripartite sash windows of original design. A wood cornice tops the bay. There’s a first-floor balcony with cast-iron brackets and 20th-century railings. Painted bricks are used as dressing and corner quoins, with a brick storey band separating the early 19th-century structure from the added third floor. The materials from the lower floors are repeated in the later addition, but unpainted. This top storey has a flat-arched tripartite window with red brick surrounds and corner quoins, and its balcony is enclosed by cast-iron railings. A brick cornice supports projecting eaves with a blocking course, and large console brackets with guttae terminate the cornice in line with the party walls below. A round-arched entry with a fanlight is located in the right return, set under a prostyle porch of Tuscan columns and entablature blocks, topped by a gabled roof formed from raking cornices. Stacks are located on the party wall. The interior was not inspected. There are railings to the area, and Number 15 forms a group with numbers 17-18 and 20-26 Upper Rock Gardens.