Seven Stars

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TQ3004SE 577-1/39/847

BRIGHTON SHIP STREET (West side) No 27 (Seven Stars)

(Formerly listed as No.27 O'Neil's Public House, previously listed as The Seven Stars Public House SHIP STREET.)

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Public house. c1900. Stucco, or possibly terracotta painted, granite, roof of tiles.

EXTERIOR: Three storeys over basement with dormers, five-window range. Ground floor has two flat-arched entrances framed by fluted pilaster-brackets and fluted frieze with deep overlights also with fluted pilasters; these are set back between tapering antae of polished granite with Corinthian capitals supporting a simple entablature, the central space having a late C20 front.

The first floor has canted oriels to either side, the principal windows round-arched with Gibbs surround to the archivolt and flanked by pilasters with ornate capitals, the outer windows blank with a blank keyed oculus over each; between the oriels a triple round-arched arcade with similar details and round-arched windows set well back to form a balcony, dentil cornice; second floor has flat-arched windows in the outer bays with one moulded transom, cornice and scrolled pediment; the central bay is again recessed but under a single round-arch with a Gibbs surround to the archivolt; the window is flat-arched and tripartite, with one moulded mullion, scrolled pediment and keystone; the central arch flanked by half-octagonal piers with elaborate corbels, running up to the kneelers of the pedimented gable; in the centre of the gable a niche with a griffin holding a shield between pilasters, and another griffin on top of the pediment, also holding a shield with a monogram; side stacks.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3097704174