Number 23 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. 1 related planning application.

Number 23 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
open-obsidian-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 October 1952
Type
Terraced house
Address
Number 23 and Attached Railings, Old Steine, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1EL
OS grid reference
TQ 313 039
Coordinates
50.8206, -0.1364
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a three-storey terraced house, likely dating to around 1825 and possibly designed by Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The ground floor is stuccoed, while the upper floors are stock brick in a header bond pattern. The house has stucco dressings and a gambrel roof covered in slate.

The exterior features a three-window range. The basement and second floors are treated as a full-width segmental bay, the top of which is enclosed by a balustrade, forming a porch for the attic storey. Steps lead to a flat-arched entrance set within the left party wall, framed by Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. The ground floor is treated with chamfered rustication, incorporating two windows to the side of the entrance. All windows are flat-arched; those on the first and second floors have architraves, with the first-floor windows additionally featuring an entablature. There is a sill band to the second floor and a dentil cornice at the top of the bay. Part of the entablature to the attic is missing. A first-floor balcony is present with cast-iron railings. Stack chimneys are set into the party walls.

The interior remains uninspected. Iron railings run along the stairs and area, the latter interrupted by a round-arched entry in the right-hand quadrant of the bay. The house forms part of a group with numbers 20-31.

Local climate

Number 23 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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