30, New Road

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW NEW ROAD 577-1/40/570 (East side) No.30

GV II

Offices. Mid C19. Stucco. Roof parapeted. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement. 3-window range. Italianate style. All ground-floor openings are round arched and rebated. The entrance is set to the left; the 2 windows to the right have projecting sills above panelled spandrels. The ground floor is rendered as banded rustication, forming vermiculated voussoirs over the openings, the keystones of which, however, are plain. Entablature band between ground and first floors has a guilloche frieze and is topped by a plinth band just below the first-floor windows. All the upper floor windows are flat arched, and all have architraves; the architraves to the second-floor windows are eared and shouldered. Each first-floor window has a pediment supported by a pair of console brackets; pediment to centre window is triangular, those to the sides segmental. The second-floor sill band consists of a guilloche and cornice. The entablature which tops the elevation is variously moulded and has a bracketed projecting cornice. The quoin strips to the first and second floors, at the party and corner walls, are interrupted by the second-floor sill band. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included for group value: a robust stucco front.

Listing NGR: TQ3113704234