Number 4 And Attached Railings, Old Steine

TQ3104SW 577-1/40/612

BRIGHTON OLD STEINE (North side) No.4 and attached railings

30/10/52

GV

II Terraced house. 1790. Stucco, roof of slate.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over half-basement with dormers in attic; 3-window range to Old Steine. Ground-floor decorated with banded rustication on Old Steine and to Princes Street which contains the broad, flat-arched entrance with sidelights partly panelled and partly glazed, overlight, panelled and studded door of original design. All windows flat-arched. The principal front to Old Steine has a bracketed verandah to first floor, of mid- to late C19 date, with elaborate cast-iron railings and slim twisted columns supporting a concave awning; second-floor windows have architraves; moulded cornice and blocking course; 3 flat-arched dormers; one flat-arched window to each floor on the return in Princes Street, plus a single-storey wing to the north which has a flat-arched entrance to left flanked by pilasters with stepped capitals, overlight and panelled door of original design; the wing has 3 flat-arched windows, that to the right flanked by similar pilasters; entablature over the whole, and blocking course. Rear elevation of the main block faced with cobbles in brick dressings.

INTERIOR: not inspected. Cast-iron railings to area on the Old Steine front.

HISTORICAL NOTE: this house, and No.3 (qv) formed part of a group once known as 'The Blue and Buffs' because they were painted in those Whig colours to please the Prince of Wales. Nos 1 and 2 were demolished for road widening in 1928. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3137704143