Clarendon Mansions

Clarendon Mansions is a hotel, later converted into flats, built in 1869 as part of the Brighton Hotel Company’s development. The building is constructed of stucco with stone dressings, and has a roof covered in asbestos tiles. It stands four storeys high with an attic above a basement, and has a 14-window frontage that curves from East Street into Grand Junction Road. All windows are flat-arched.

The principal entrance in East Street features pilasters supporting console brackets to the first-floor balustrade. To the right of the entrance, extending along Grand Junction Road, is an irregular arrangement of windows and entrances. The ground floor is detailed with vermiculation below the windows, rusticated piers and mullions, with pilasters on the pier faces that rise to acanthus brackets in the fascia. To the left of the principal entrance is a public house style treatment at the chamfered corner with Brill’s Lane, featuring a round-arched entrance with foliage ornamentation within the spandrels, a keystone, and a wave-moulded oriel recessed under a corbel. Fully glazed bays with cast-iron ornament are positioned above the fascia on either side. This ground-floor treatment continues for one bay from Grand Junction Road into Brill’s Lane, with a glazed verandah added to the first floor. The first-floor windows have moulded architraves and blind boxes, except for the two outermost windows on East Street and three on Grand Junction Road. Eight windows are grouped in pairs to the right of the principal entrance on the first and second floors. The second-floor windows have a sill band that forms balconies with cast-iron balustrades; the paired windows share a balcony. Moulded architraves and blind boxes appear on the second-floor windows; a moulded storey band is also present. Bracketed sills are found at the third-floor windows, except for the recessed bay window on the extreme left-hand side in East Street. A cornice runs along the top of the building, above which is a parapet surmounted by a balustrade interrupted by gabled dormers in the mansard roof. Multiple ridge stacks are located at intervals. The interior has not been inspected.