131, Kings Road is a Grade II* listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.
131, Kings Road
- WRENN ID
- ancient-turret-tarn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 131, Kings Road, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 2HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 041
- Coordinates
- 50.82196, -0.15124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 131, King's Road is a terraced house built between 1828 and 1830, with alterations to the ground floor around 1900. It was designed by Amon Henry Wilds for the Duke and Duchess of St Albans. The house is constructed of stucco with a visible slate roof.
The exterior presents a five-storey-over-basement façade, with a three-window arrangement facing King’s Road and a five-window arrangement facing Regency Square. A circa-1900 round-arched entrance is located on the left side of the King's Road elevation; it features partly fluted engaged columns on raised bases supporting a round arch with a Gibbs surround, double panelled doors, a dentil cornice, and a fanlight. Above the entrance is a small decorative scrolled pediment and a panel lettered ‘ST ALBANS’. The ground floor of both the King's Road and Regency Square elevations has been altered to form a restaurant, with slim cast-iron columns containing foliage and fluting, supporting elliptical and flattened elliptical arches, a fascia, a modillion cornice, and cast-iron railings above to form a first-floor balcony. The upper floors of the King's Road elevation have flat-arched windows. A three-window segmental bay is located on the right, with a single window to the left. The first-floor windows have an architrave and a floating cornice, the second floor has an architrave only, and a storey band is present. The third floor has an architrave only. A dentil cornice runs along the top of the building, and the attic storey has windows within round-arched architraves, with shell ornament filling the tympanum. A cornice and blocking course complete the facade. The Regency Square elevation features a full-height segmental bay on the right, with a three-window arrangement, and two blank windows on each floor to the left. The ground floor of this bay is rusticated, and a balcony is present on the first floor. Side stacks are a feature of the roofline.
The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
131, Kings Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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