Number 79 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.

Number 79 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
House
Address
Number 79 and Attached Railings, Marine Parade, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 1AJ
OS grid reference
TQ 320 037
Coordinates
50.81857, -0.12692
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 79 is an early 19th-century terraced house on Marine Parade. It is constructed of stucco and has a tile gambrel roof with two flat-arched dormers above a basement level. The house has three storeys and a three-window front. A flat-arched entrance is set within an enclosed porch, the roof of which serves as a first-floor balcony enclosed by cast-iron railing. Cast-iron balconettes are set into the jambs of the first-floor windows on the left side. A flat-arched entry is also present on the left return. Chimney stacks are located on the end wall. The interior has not been inspected. Number 79 is part of a group value context with numbers 68, 69, and 73-89 Marine Parade, and with numbers 1-14 Royal Crescent.

Local climate

Number 79 and Attached 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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  • 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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