4-7, Pavilion Buildings

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW PAVILION BUILDINGS 577-1/40/661 (East side) 11/03/87 Nos.4-7 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terraced houses with shop- or office-fronts. 1852-3. Stucco, roof of Welsh slate to No.4, artificial slate to Nos 5 and 6, and asphalt to No.7. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with dormers in attic, 2 windows each. The ground floor of each house is treated as a shop- or office-front, and was probably so originally; the common surviving elements are panelled pilasters flanking each house, elaborate fascia stops with heads and urns, and fascias between. The ground floor of No.4 is decorated with chamfered rustication and has a round-arched entrance with fanlight set back under a round arch of smooth stucco, and 2 round-arched windows similarly set back; No.5 has a round-arched entrance with fanlight and panelled door of original design, and 3 round-arched windows, all 4 openings in a round-arched arcade with slim Corinthian columns, panelled aprons, bead-and-reel moulding to sills, moulded archivolts and panelled spandrels; No.6 has a C20 flat-arched entrance to left, and a shop entrance inserted in arcaded glazing of late C19 or early C20 shop front; No.7 has late C20 shop front. The upper floor of No.4 is flanked by rusticated pilaster strips; first-floor windows flat-arched with architraves and cornices; storey band, and sill band to second-floor windows which are segmental-arched with eared architraves and panelled aprons with lions' heads; the architrave runs up in unmoulded form to the entablature whose cornice breaks forward over brackets and panels, forming sills to attic dormers in the mansard roof, which have flat-arched windows under a round arch, panelled pilasters and decorated tympana; a balustrade runs between and in front of the dormers; sashes of original design to upper floors; corniced stacks to party walls, that between Nos 5 and 6 lowered. This terrace was built on the site of part of the south ranges of the Royal Pavilion, demolished in 1851 when the Crown sold the Pavilion to Brighton Corporation. Spot-listing description refers to original stairs, fireplaces and joinery in Nos 4-5, Nos 6-7 not inspected. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3123804154