6, 7 And 8, Meeting House Lane

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW MEETING HOUSE LANE 577-1/64/501 (West side) 20/08/71 Nos.6, 7 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: MEETING HOUSE LANE Nos.6-12 (Consecutive))

GV II

Houses, now shops and flats. Late C18 or early C19. Painted brick in Flemish bond; left return of No.6 stucco cement scored to imitate ashlaring. Gambrel roof of slate to Nos 6 and 7, dormers covered in metal. The roof of No.8 is 2-span covered in slate turnerised. 2 storeys, Nos 6 and 7 with one dormer each. Nos 6 and 7 one window each. No.8 has a 2-window range. C20 shop fronts to ground floor. Camber-arched first-floor windows with projecting sills; 8 x 8 sashes of original design to No.7. No.8 has a brick dentil cornice; all have shallow, guttered eaves. Stacks to party walls. During the extension of the group to the rear in c1982, when the rear gardens were cemented over, a tunnel at the south-west corner of No.6 was also cemented over. Several old flint walls incorporated into this extension. These buildings form a most important group with Nos 1-5, 9-12, 22-32, 36-41 and 43-53 Meeting House Lane (qv), which is the centre of the section of the Old Town known as The Lanes.

Listing NGR: TQ3105004181