53, 54 and 55, Ship Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. Terraced houses, shops, offices. 5 related planning applications.
53, 54 and 55, Ship Street
- WRENN ID
- pitched-porch-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1971
- Type
- Terraced houses, shops, offices
- Address
- 53, 54 and 55, Ship Street, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 041
- Coordinates
- 50.82238, -0.14147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of three early 19th-century terraced houses, now used as shops and offices, located on Ship Street in Brighton. The buildings are constructed with mathematical tile, stucco, and brick in Flemish bond, with gauged brick lintels. The roofs are tiled, with a hipped roof to number 53 and to numbers 54 and 55.
The exterior presents three storeys over a basement. Number 53 has a single-window range. Numbers 54 and 55, when considered together, have a two-window range facing Ship Street, a curved corner range with one window, and a two-window range facing Union Street. The facade of number 54 angles back and curves around the corner to Union Street, breaking the join with number 53. Each property has a 19th-century shop front at ground floor level; only the entablature remains on number 53. The shop fronts on numbers 54 and 55 incorporate a flat-arched entrance on the corner, with thin Tuscan pilasters framing the entrance and shop windows, and a further flat-arched entrance at the left party wall of number 54. Number 53 features a shallow segmental bay with tripartite windows to the first floor. The spandrels of this bay are faced with mathematical tile, capped by an entablature and covered by a semi-domical metal roof. The sash windows are of an original early 19th-century design, with 6x6 panes to the centre and 4x4 panes to the sides on the ground floor, and a 4x8 pane to the single second-floor window. All upper-floor windows have projecting sills. The corner window range has tripartite windows, with a 3x6 pane to the centre and 2x4 panes to the sides on the second floor. A first-floor segmental bay with tripartite windows is located adjacent to the party wall with number 10 Union Street, where the jambs of the side and centre windows are treated as Roman "fasces," with 6x6 panes to the centre and 2x2 panes to the sides. Blocked windows are visible on the Ship Street elevation. A continuous entablature and parapet tops all three buildings.
The interior was not inspected during the listing process.
Local climate
53, 54 and 55, Ship Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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