41 AND 41A, MARKET STREET (See details for further address information)

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW MARKET STREET 577-1/64/491 (South West side) 20/08/71 Nos.41 AND 41A

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Includes: No.24 PRINCE ALBERT STREET. Corner house, now restaurant, shops and offices. C19. Stucco. Roof obscured by parapet. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over attic. 5-window range to Market Street; left return to Prince Albert Street. 2-window range and right return to Nile Street one-window range. Shop fronts of C19 design: Tuscan pilasters and piers; entablature with cornice, that to No.41 now covered over; and sections of banded and chamfered rustication to right return. Several flat-arched entrances: corner entrance to No.24 Prince Albert Street; that to No.41A is placed in the middle of the Market Street elevation; another entrance to Nile Street. All windows are flat arched and all, except for the bay windows,have projecting sills. The corner with Prince Albert Street is curved in plan, set back slightly from the surrounding wall surfaces and filled with a vertical panel intended for signage but now bare. There is a continuous entablature to the top of the entire block. The left return, or Prince Albert Street elevation: 2 canted bays with tripartite windows to first and second floors; above left-hand bay is a single, third-floor window; above the right-hand bay are 3 windows closely spaced; some sashes of original 8 x 8 design: first-floor window the first-window range and all second-floor windows. The Market Street elevation: 2 segmental bays to the first and second floors; the second- and 4th-window ranges as well as the third-floor window in the first-window range are blocked and very narrow; storey bands between the first and second floors; between the second and third floors is a continuous projecting cornice; many sashes of original design, 6 x 6 to first-floor window in first-window range. to tripartite bay windows, 6 x 6 to centre windows and 2 x 2 to sides, 6 x 6 sashes to single window above each of the 2 bays. The right-hand return, or Nile Street elevation: there is a canted bay to the first floor of the first-window range, with sashes of original design, 8 x 8 to centre window and 2 x 2 to sides; there are 3 windows to the second and third floors each; the first- and second window ranges are blocked and the third-window range has 6 x 6 sashes of original design to each floor. Stacks to end and party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3108704054