Numbers 1 and 2 and 3 and Attached Railings and Walls and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Terraced houses. 5 related planning applications.

Numbers 1 and 2 and 3 and Attached Railings and Walls and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
plain-merlon-evening
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 houses
Address
Numbers 1 and 2 and 3 and Attached Railings and Walls and Gate Piers, Richmond Terrace, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 9SA
OS grid reference
TQ 315 049
Coordinates
50.82918, -0.13335
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1, 2, and 3 Richmond Terrace are terraced houses built around 1825, likely designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustine Busby. They feature a combination of stucco and yellow brick set in Flemish bond, with a roof obscured by a parapet.

The exterior consists of three storeys over a basement. Number 1 has seven windows and is double-fronted, while Numbers 2 and 3 each have four windows. The ground floor is rusticated, with steps leading up to a flat-arched entrance framed by pilasters adorned with incised ornament and an entablature. The entrance to Number 3 retains a dentil cornice. The doorcase includes sidelights and an overlight, with Number 1 featuring a panelled door of original design, while the doors to Numbers 2 and 3 are now partly glazed. Numbers 2 and 3 also have additional rusticated lintels with keystones within the porch.

The houses have full-height segmental bays, with two bays for Number 1 and one each for Numbers 2 and 3. All windows are flat-arched, with those on the first and second floors featuring stucco architraves. The first-floor windows have cornices, and Number 1 has a broad central window on the first floor that is set forward, with a similar window on the second floor that is set back. The ground-floor windows and sidelights of Number 1 are decorated with late 19th or early 20th-century engraved glass for the Phoenix Brewery, featuring Egyptian decoration and phoenixes. A moulded stucco cornice and parapet complete the design.

The interior has not been inspected. The balustrade is supported on segmental arches at the ground floor windows and continues to the steps. There are low garden walls along the street, between round-topped piers with decorative rings. The cast-iron railings, which feature scrolled brackets and spearhead finials, were originally present at the steps and walls but are now missing from the steps and the walls of Number 1.

Local climate

Numbers 1 and 2 and 3 and Attached Railings and Walls and Gate Piers 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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