31 And 32, Cannon Place

BRIGHTON

TQ3004SE CANNON PLACE 577-1/39/106 (West side) 13/10/52 Nos.31 AND 32

GV II

Terraced houses, No.31 now incorporating the frontage, in St Margaret's Place, of the former Royal Newburgh Assembly Rooms, of c1833, designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustine Busby for Charles Wright, a bookseller and librarian. Stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over basement, one-window range to Cannon Place, 7-window range to St Margaret's Place. In Cannon Place, No.32 has a flat-arched entrance in outer bay with overlight; all windows flat-arched; full-height segmental bay with tripartite windows, bracketed balcony to first floor, principal cornice to second floor, secondary cornice to third floor; parapet. The Cannon Place front of No.31 is similar but with the segmental bay only. In St Margaret's Place: portico to 3 central bays; outer antae, the capitals decorated with palmette ornament, inner engaged columns with capitals of acanthus and palm leaf ornament, entablature and pediment with dentil cornice; flat-arched entrance with architrave, cornice and storey band over; all windows flat-arched; first floor windows with architraves, others without; cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3055104179