Numbers 1 And 1A And Attached Railings

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW CASTLE SQUARE 577-1/64/110 (South West side) 20/08/71 Nos.1 AND 1A and attached railings

GV II

House. c1825. Probably designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. Mathematical tiles, painted; mansard roof of slate. Cast-iron shop front of late C19. EXTERIOR: main elevation on Old Steine. 4 storeys and dormers over basement. 2-window range with a 3-window range return. At the corner the shop front is framed by elements cast in a Gothic Revival style, all bays but entrance with tracery spandrels; on the return the shop front has rusticated piers with waterleaf capitals. A flat-arched entrance on the corner and on the return. The principal elevation treated as a full-height and nearly full-width segmental bay. All windows are flat arched; floor-to-ceiling first-floor windows open out onto a shallow balcony enclosed by cast-iron railings in an anthemion and heart motif; third-floor windows with projecting sills. Storey bands between first and second floors level with sills of second-floor windows; this band continues across the return. The roof parapet is balustraded to the main elevation only. On the return 2 third-floor windows are blocked; the third filled with a late C19 or early C20 canted bay. Many sashes of original design: 6 x 6 to first floor, 3 x 6 to second, and 3 x 3 to third; on return: 6-pane top sashes to first-floor windows only. Stacks to return and party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 1 and 1A and Nos 2-7 (qv) Castle Square form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ3125304066