4-7, Pavilion Buildings

Pavilion Buildings comprises four terraced houses with shop or office fronts, built between 1852 and 1853. The buildings are constructed of stucco, with Welsh slate roofing to number 4, artificial slate to numbers 5 and 6, and asphalt to number 7.

The buildings are three storeys high with dormers in the attic. Each house originally featured a shop or office front on the ground floor, with common elements including panelled pilasters, elaborate fascia stops with heads and urns, and fascias between the properties. Number 4 has chamfered rustication on the ground floor and a round-arched entrance with fanlight and windows set back under a round arch of smooth stucco. Number 5 has a round-arched entrance with a fanlight and panelled door of original design, with three round-arched windows set within a round-arched arcade featuring slim Corinthian columns, panelled aprons, bead-and-reel moulding to sills, moulded archivolts, and panelled spandrels. Number 6 has a 20th-century flat-arched entrance and a shop entrance inserted into the late 19th or early 20th-century shop front glazing. Number 7 has a late 20th-century shop front.

The upper floor of number 4 is flanked by rusticated pilaster strips. First-floor windows have flat arches with architraves and cornices. A storey band and sill band are present on the second floor, where windows are segmental-arched with eared architraves and panelled aprons featuring lions’ heads. The architraves run up to the entablature, whose cornice breaks forward over brackets and panels, forming sills to the attic dormers within the mansard roof. Each dormer has flat-arched windows under a round arch, panelled pilasters, decorated tympana, and are set behind a balustrade. The upper floors retain sashes of original design. Corniced stacks are visible between the party walls, with the stack between numbers 5 and 6 having been lowered.

These buildings were constructed on the site of part of the south ranges of the Royal Pavilion, demolished in 1851 after the Crown sold the Pavilion to Brighton Corporation. The original listing description noted the presence of original stairs, fireplaces, and joinery within numbers 4 and 5, while numbers 6 and 7 were not inspected.