Princes Hotel And Attached Railings

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.