Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent is a Grade II* listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1969. A C19 Terraced houses. 4 related planning applications.

Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent

WRENN ID
cold-kitchen-mist
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1969
Type
Terraced houses
Address
Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 3HB
OS grid reference
TQ 316 053
Coordinates
50.83301, -0.1313
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent comprise a terrace of houses built in stages from 1849, designed by Amon Henry Wilds. They form the curved, three-storey range on Park Crescent. Numbers 24 and 26 are later additions, dating from 1983, built to replace houses destroyed by bombing in 1942, and they adhere to the original terrace’s design, included for group value. The construction is stucco, with slate roofs.

The exterior features three stories over a basement, with three windows per house. The standard design includes an entrance bay set slightly back from the adjacent house, with a flat-arched entrance featuring a moulded architrave, cornice, overlight, and a panelled door of original design. Quoins define the boundary between the entrance bay and the main facade. All windows are flat-arched, with moulded architraves, and the central window on the first floor is often blank. The sash windows are generally of original design, with 4/4 panes on the ground and first floors, and 2/2 panes on the second floor. Console brackets support the eaves, which incorporate a frieze of wreaths; deep eaves are present above, and both ridge and front stacks are visible. Cast-iron railings with spearhead finials front the area.

The garden front exhibits a main block of three stories, where the cornice and eaves transition into a three-story "tower" resembling those on Numbers 1-16 and 33-48. This tower features bracketed eaves, a wreathed cornice, and pedimented gables.

Notable variations on individual houses include Numbers 17-18, 20, 23, 27-28, and 32, which lack blocked central first-floor windows. Number 19 has a partially blocked central window on the second floor. Number 21 has glazed upper panels on its front door. Number 22 incorporates an oval window into its central first-floor window. Number 29 features glazed upper panels on its door, and its central first-floor window has been altered. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent 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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