Number 37 and 37a 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. Synagogue. 1 related planning application.
Number 37 and 37a and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- final-wattle-juniper
- 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
- Synagogue
- Address
- Number 37 and 37a and Attached Railings, Devonshire Place, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 1QB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 317 040
- Coordinates
- 50.8214, -0.13095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at numbers 37 and 37A, Devonshire Place, Brighton, is a synagogue dating to around 1825. It was originally constructed as a synagogue, alongside numbers 38 and 39, and was enlarged in 1837 to include a residence and schoolroom, a project overseen by David Mocatta. Restoration work is currently underway, including rebuilding the first-floor verandah. The building is constructed of stucco, with the roof concealed behind a parapet. It is three storeys high, with a basement. The facade has a three-window range. The entrance is flat-arched, with an overlight, and to the right are two flat-arched windows with projecting sills. The ground floor features chamfered rustication. A first-floor balcony is present, with cast-iron railings in a Gothic Revival style, featuring intersecting ogee arches with quatrefoil borders. A storey band is positioned between the first and second floors. The windows are sash windows, retaining some original glazing, particularly in the ground floor and two basement windows which are camber arched and have deep reveals. The building has a cornice and parapet, along with stacks to the party walls. The interior has not been inspected. Railings are present at the stairs and area. The synagogue was originally designed to accommodate 50 people.
Local climate
Number 37 and 37a 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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- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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