Nos 2-8 Including Walls, Piers and Railings Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. Terrace of houses. 20 related planning applications.
Nos 2-8 Including Walls, Piers and Railings Fronting Road
- WRENN ID
- heavy-niche-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Hove and Portslade MP: Peter Kyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1992
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- Nos 2-8 Including Walls, Piers and Railings Fronting Road, Medina Terrace, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 043
- Coordinates
- 50.82472, -0.1751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of four houses, now divided into flats, built around 1875. Some alterations were made in the 20th century, particularly to the attic storey. The houses are constructed with a rendered brick facade, and the roof is concealed behind a parapet with tall rendered stacks topped with moulded caps. The terrace abuts 1-3 Albemarle Mansions to the north and has a rear elevation facing the sea.
The houses are four storeys high with a basement and feature four-window units. Each unit has a full-height canted bay window, with a main entrance on the right side. Windows are sash windows, with no glazing bars except on the third floor, where there's a single vertical bar in the central window of each canted bay. A parapet with linked circular piercings tops the building, along with a moulded cornice. The third floor has cambered heads, moulded architraves, and pediments above the central window of the canted bay and the window above the entrance. A continuous cast-iron balcony runs along the first floor. The ground floor windows have cambered heads, keystones, and a continuous moulded cill supported on brackets, with some original cast-iron window box guards remaining. Recessed entrances have rusticated surrounds, cambered heads, panelled doors with fanlights and sidelights, and are accessed by a flight of seven steps.
The solid boundary walls have a moulded coping and return to piers. The left return of No. 8, facing the sea, features a first-floor canopy with wooden trelliswork forming a three-bay loggia, now partly glazed, which abuts the full-height canted bay. A ground-floor oriel window is centrally located, with windows adjoining the main elevation. The walls fronting the road have piers with shallow pyramid caps and a balustrade with a moulded coping of interlocking circles on a plinth; this design is similar to that of 1-3 Albemarle Mansions.
No. 8 was occupied by Captain and Mrs. O'Shea from 1883 to 1899. In 1890, the building’s fire escape arrangements became a subject of public interest due to a divorce action brought by Captain O'Shea, with Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist politician, cited as a co-respondent. The walls incorporate mixed railings and balustrades.
Local climate
Nos 2-8 Including Walls, Piers and Railings Fronting Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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 — 18 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 20 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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