Number 53 And Attached Walls And Railings Numbers 17 And 19 And Attached Walls And Railings

BRIGHTON

TQ3203NE GREAT COLLEGE STREET 577-1/49/321 (North side) No.53 and attached walls and railings

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Includes: Nos.17 AND 19 and attached walls and railings ABBEY ROAD. Terraced houses. Mid C19. Stucco. Roof of slate. EXTERIOR: composed of 2 blocks, that to corner has 2 storeys with a 3-window range on the entrance elevation in Great College Street and a 2-window range to return. Block to north along Abbey Road has 3 storeys and a 2-window range; the whole treated as if it were a tower to the main block. Italianate style. Flat-arched entrance with overlight on Great College Street; door of original design; entrance porch with piers in antis; entablature with bracketed cornice and blocking course above. To the right a single-storey canted bay with tripartite, Tuscan pilaster strips at corners and joins with wall; entablature with bracketed cornice and blocking course. All windows flat arched. The ground floor has banded, chamfered rustication. First-floor windows with projecting sills. Cornice strip from which brackets spring to support deep eaves; shields in the frieze between each pair of brackets. Ground floor rustication and bracketed eaves continue to return, where there is full-height canted bay with tripartite windows to first floor, French doors to garden; bracketed cornice between ground and first floors of bay only. To right of bay round-arched entrance with a window above. On Abbey Road a flat-arched entrance next to which is 2-storey canted bay with Tuscan pilasters at corners and joins with front wall, tripartite window to each floor; bracketed cornice between the ground and first floor of the bay only; first floor terminates in entablature. Cornice springing band for broad bracketed eaves as on lower block. Stacks to centre and party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. Railings and low wall to front garden. Abbey Road house was once the home of Henry Abbey, Mayor of Brighton in 1875. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 58).

Listing NGR: TQ3254903873