2, St Georges Road

BRIGHTON

TQ3203NW ST GEORGE'S ROAD 577-1/48/792 (North side) 30/03/99 No.2

GV II

Terraced house. Early to mid C19, remodelled in 1908 for the Sussex Dairy Company to designs by M Mellor, identified as a surveyor, No.110 St James's Street, Brighton (qv). Pebbledash and purplish brick, dark red brick dressings; glazed terracotta shopfront. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement, stepping down on return. One-window range; 3- on left return. Corner entry through early C20 shopfront of glazed terracotta panels which are ornamented with floral and fretwork patterns. Another entry on the return is camber arched with overlight, dressings of soft red brick. Return in purplish brick, laid in English garden wall bond. To the left of entrance are 2 camber-arched windows, to the right one. To the first floor of main elevation rectangular bay with lean-to metal roof, corners treated as fluted Tuscan piers; sill band to second-floor double, 6 x 6 sash window. On the first and second floors of return are 2 early C20 signs in artificial stone, each treated as rectangular panel, which, on the first floor bears a cow in low relief flanked by 2 elliptical shields formed from banners. Each shield has Tudor rose in relief in the centre with the legend: on the left, "Established 1806," and on the right: "Rebuilt 190[?obscured]." Panel to second floor bears the legend: "Sussex Dairy Co. Ltd." Cornice and parapet in artificial stone. Stacks to end and party walls. This sign faces the Bristol Road Methodist Church, Montague Place (qv) and forms a group with it on the irregular square formed by the intersection of Bristol and St George's Roads with Montague Place.

Listing NGR: TQ3222603895