46, Russell Square is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. Terraced house. 1 related planning application.

46, Russell Square

WRENN ID
second-parapet-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
Terraced house
Address
46, Russell Square, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 2EF
OS grid reference
TQ 305 042
Coordinates
50.82278, -0.1477
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a circa 1820 terraced house located on Russell Square in Brighton. It is a building of group value, contributing to the character of the area.

The house is stucco-faced, with a roof hidden behind a parapet. It rises four storeys over a basement, presenting a one-window frontage to Cannon Place and a two-window frontage to Russell Square. The ground floor is treated with banded rustication. A flat-arched entrance is set within an enclosed porch on the Russell Square side. The Cannon Place frontage, which serves as the principal elevation, includes a segmental bay window on the ground, first, and second floors, with flat-arched tripartite windows. The first-floor windows in the bay are French windows opening onto a replacement bracketed balcony. A cornice sits above the second floor, followed by a tripartite window on the third floor and a secondary cornice above that. On the Russell Square frontage, the first and second floors are framed by incised patterns that create the illusion of pilasters, topped by a segmental pediment. A segmental window is located to the left of the entrance. To the right is a single-storey screen wall with three blank segmental-arched windows. Above these, flat-arched windows are present on the first and second floors, all blank except for the easternmost first-floor window. The parapet curves upwards at its centre.

The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Local climate

46, Russell Square receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 12 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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