20, 21 and 22, Marlborough Place is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Building society premises. 7 related planning applications.
20, 21 and 22, Marlborough Place
- WRENN ID
- sharp-rubble-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Building society premises
- Address
- 20, 21 and 22, Marlborough Place, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 1UB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 313 044
- Coordinates
- 50.82499, -0.1369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, comprising numbers 20, 21, and 22 Marlborough Place, is a building society premises constructed in 1933 by John Leopold Denman for the Citizens Permanent Building Society. It is built of red brick in stretcher bond, with Portland stone dressings and a roof of pantiles.
The exterior presents a symmetrical facade of three storeys and an attic, arranged as a five-window range. Entrances are located in the outer bays, with three round-arched windows set between them, all faced in stone up to the arch's springing point. The entrances are in shallow porches with canted sides, panelled architraves, a moulded springing band, a ribbed blocking course, and a keystone featuring the building society's emblem. The windows are set within a concave-chamfered stone architrave, decorated at the springing and above with panels depicting the building trades in relief, carved by Joseph Cribb. They retain their original metal glazing bars, with one window brought forward as a small canted bay featuring sidelights and radiating glazing bars above. Deeper windows, likely leading to a staircase, are present in the outer bays of the first floor, featuring architraves and pediments supported on consoles, with recessed canted sides to the glazing. The second-floor windows are similar in style, with a sill band of recessed upright brickwork and projecting brick panels between. Original rainwater goods remain. A clock is housed within an ornate, bracketed wooden case positioned centrally above the first-floor windows. The building is topped with a stone cornice and a brick parapet with stone coping, swept up at the ends to fluted urns. Three hipped dormers are incorporated into the mansard roof, and side and ridge stacks are present.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
20, 21 and 22, Marlborough Place 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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