Number 20 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
Number 20 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- dim-passage-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- Number 20 and Attached Railings, Middle Street, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 308 040
- Coordinates
- 50.82165, -0.14319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 20 is a terraced house located on Middle Street in Brighton, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of yellow brick laid in Flemish bond, with dressings that are likely made of gauged brick but are currently painted over with stucco. The roof is obscured by a parapet.
The house has three storeys and features a three-window range. It includes a prostyle Roman Doric porch and a round-arched entrance with a fanlight and panelled reveals. All the windows are flat-arched, and there is a full-height segmental bay on the left side with two windows on each floor. Only the second-floor windows and the right-hand window on the first floor retain their original shape and sashes. The building is topped with a modillion cornice and a blocking cornice, and it has side stacks. A plaque on the house commemorates that William Friese-Greene conducted his original cinematographic experiments here.
The interior has not been inspected. The property also features cast-iron area railings with spearhead and urn finials.
Local climate
Number 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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