Princes Hotel 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. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Princes Hotel and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-oriel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1971
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Princes Hotel and Attached Railings, Grand Junction Road, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1PN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 312 038
- Coordinates
- 50.81961, -0.13828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Princes Hotel, originally built as terraced houses around 1840, is located on Grand Junction Road in Brighton. The building is constructed of stucco and features a roof that is obscured by a parapet. It stands four storeys tall with an attic over a basement and has a total of 13 windows.
The façade facing Grand Junction Road includes two segmental bays on either side of the entrance, with the curve of the eastern bay extending to create a fully curved front in Pool Valley. All windows are flat-arched and have moulded architraves, except for the attic storey, and the 4th, 8th, and 10th windows from the west are blank across all storeys. The flat-arched entrance on Grand Junction Road is adorned with Doric pilasters, although the entablature is now obscured. The entrance in Pool Valley is flanked by single-storey bay windows.
On the first floor, the windows are of piano nobile proportions and are complemented by a continuous bracketed balcony featuring a cast-iron balustrade. Each window has pediments alternating with floating cornices above. There is a storey band between the second and third floors, a dentil cornice, and a subsidiary cornice at the attic storey, topped by a parapet. The area is enclosed by cast-iron railings with halberd finials. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Princes Hotel 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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