Numbers 41-45 And Attached Railings

Terraced houses converted into flats, dating from around 1825 and designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The building is located on Marine Parade in Brighton.

The exterior is rendered in stucco with gambrel roofs of slate; those to numbers 41 and 45 have been "turnerised". The building comprises four storeys with dormers over a basement. The main elevation to Marine Parade has three windows to each property, with a two-window range to the left return and a five-window-range to the right. All entries have flat arches with overlights. Those to numbers 41-42 and 43-44 are paired and set beneath prostyle porches with fluted Doric columns, each with an entablature featuring a meander pattern in the frieze above numbers 41-42; the cornice of the other porch has been obscured by a backlit twentieth-century sign. The entry to number 45 is set within a shallow porch flanked by fluted Tuscan pilasters, and the wall to the right of this entry has been pierced by a round-headed window. The basements and ground floors of numbers 41-45 have banded rustication. First-floor balconies with cast-iron railings are present to each property; those to numbers 41-43 and 45 are supported by cast-iron brackets. Number 45 additionally has a balcony with cast-iron railings and brackets to the second floor. All windows in the main elevation are flat arched.

The facade of each property is treated as a full-height and nearly full-width segmental bay. Number 41 presents the most complex elevation, with elements repeated in numbers 42-45. The first and second floors of number 41 are united by a two-storey arcade with piers of giant Tuscan pilasters and entablature. The attic is treated as a single-storey arcade with pilasters, entablature and blocking course. This motif of arcade and giant order is repeated on numbers 42 and 43, though the attic storey plan is simpler, consisting only of a pilastrade and entablature. Number 44 follows the same general pattern, but only traces of Tuscan pilaster capitals remain, and instead of a continuous entablature there are four cornice blocks supported by modillion brackets marking each subdivision of the segmental bay. Number 45 entirely lacks the colossal order or arcade; its ground- and first-floor windows are the only ones in the row to have architraves, and it has a first-floor cornice supported by console brackets.

The left return elevation features a bay rising two storeys with entablatures at ground and first floors; the gambrel roof section is treated as a gable with an end stack. To the left of the two-storey bay is a lower wing with a canted bay to the ground floor. Two entries are present on the right return; that near the corner is round-arched and set beneath a Tuscan prostyle porch with glazing bars to the door and trapezoidal overlight forming a diamond-shaped pattern dating from the early twentieth century. To the right of this porch is a less formal entry set beneath a bracketed, semicircular canopy of late nineteenth or early twentieth-century date. Sill bands appear to the first and second floors, with fragments of a cornice to the second floor. All units have flat-arched dormers. Stacks are positioned to party walls.

The interior has not been inspected. Railings to stairs and area are attached to the listing.