Number 21 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
Number 21 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-chapel-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1971
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- Number 21 and Attached Railings, Old Steine, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 313 040
- Coordinates
- 50.82072, -0.13639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 21 is a terraced house located on the east side of Old Steine in Brighton. It was built in the early 19th century and underwent alterations in the mid to late 19th century. The house is finished in stucco and features a roof that is obscured by a parapet. It has six storeys over a half basement and a two-window range, similar in appearance to Number 22 next door.
Access to the house is via a flat-arched entrance, which is reached by stairs. The ground floor displays chamfered rustication, and the entrance is paired with that of Number 20, both of which are set beneath a shallow prostyle porch supported by fluted Doric columns and an entablature. To the right, there is a full-height canted bay with tripartite windows, while to the left of the bay and above the entrance, there is one window on each floor, all featuring architraves and projecting sills.
A balcony on the first floor is supported by cast-iron brackets and railings. There are cornice storey bands between the first and second, and the second and third floors, along with plain storey bands separating all upper floors. The parapet has coping at the fifth floor, and all horizontal bands continue across the bay. The interior has not been inspected, but there are railings to the stairs and area. Number 21 and the adjacent properties from Number 20 to Number 31 Old Steine form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Number 21 and Attached Railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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