Numbers 7 to 11 and Attached Walls, Piers and Railings

Numbers 7 to 11 and the attached walls, piers, and railings are a group of mid-19th century terraced houses, now converted into flats, located in Brighton. The houses are constructed of stucco scored to resemble ashlar, with slate roofs except for number 10, which has a tile roof.

The houses are three storeys and an attic over a basement, each with three windows. The design incorporates straight joins between numbers 7 and 8, and 9 and 10, but with a step down created by breaking the join at number 11, which is positioned on a corner. The elevation is treated as a full-height, nearly full-width canted bay. Full-height quoin strips run along the party walls, interrupted by mouldings. A flat-arched entrance, recessed into the bay and accessed by a short flight of steps, is set within a prostyle porch of Tuscan columns and entablature; a left-hand column is attached to the front of the bay, and banded, chamfered rustication covers the ground floor wall inside the porch. Number 11 appears to have been built without a porch. Two flat-arched windows flank each entrance, featuring quadrant corners, projecting sills on console brackets, and quoined lintels.

A continuous entablature serves as the front fascia for a first-floor balcony enclosed by cast-iron scroll and trellis railings, likely dating from around 1860 or later. The first-floor windows have stilted, segmental heads with architraves tied together by a springing band. Second-floor windows are flat-arched, with projecting sills on console brackets; the centre window of the second floor is set within a shallow aedicule. The cornice of this aedicule extends across the facade, marking the beginning of the attic storey, which has round-arched windows with architraves and a springing band. A continuous entablature with a bracketed dentil cornice crowns the building.

The return of number 11 originally featured a blocked window range mirroring the front’s centre window, with a ground-floor entrance set within a banded, chamfered rusticated aedicule, now filled with a window. A range of 20th-century windows to the left of this range show little regard for the original design. The interior has not been inspected.

Walls, piers, and railings are present to the entrances and areas. While built in the Victorian period, the design of these houses is in keeping with the Regency character of Kemp Town, although they are not considered a “Regency Revival”. Numbers 7 to 11 form a group with numbers 1 to 6 and 12 to 21 Chesham Place.