Numbers 1 and 1a 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. House. 1 related planning application.

Numbers 1 and 1a and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
worn-balcony-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
House
Address
Numbers 1 and 1a and Attached Railings, Castle Square, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1EG
OS grid reference
TQ 312 040
Coordinates
50.82126, -0.13797
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 and 1A, along with the attached railings, are a house built around 1825, likely designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The exterior features painted mathematical tiles and a slate mansard roof, with a late 19th-century cast-iron shop front.

The main elevation faces Old Steine and consists of four storeys with dormers above a basement. It has a two-window range with a three-window range return. The shop front at the corner is framed in a Gothic Revival style, with tracery spandrels on all bays except the entrance. The return features rusticated piers topped with waterleaf capitals. There are flat-arched entrances on both the corner and the return. The principal elevation is designed as a nearly full-height and full-width segmental bay. All windows are flat arched, with floor-to-ceiling first-floor windows that open onto a shallow balcony, which is enclosed by cast-iron railings featuring an anthemion and heart motif. The third-floor windows have projecting sills, and there are storey bands between the first and second floors that align with the sills of the second-floor windows, continuing across the return. The roof parapet is balustraded only on the main elevation. On the return, two third-floor windows are blocked, while the third is filled with a late 19th or early 20th-century canted bay. Many of the sashes retain their original design: 6 x 6 on the first floor, 3 x 6 on the second, and 3 x 3 on the third; the return has 6-pane top sashes on the first-floor windows only. There are stacks on the return and party walls.

The interior has not been inspected. Numbers 1 and 1A, along with Numbers 2-7 Castle Square, form a group.

Local climate

Numbers 1 and 1a 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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