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© Miss Esther Harbour
IoE Number:
365503
Location:
NOS 33-42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 33-42 BRUNSWICK TERRACE
HOVE, BRIGHTON AND HOVE, EAST SUSSEX
Photographer:
Miss Esther Harbour
Date Photographed:
01 August 2004
Date listed:
24 March 1950
Date of last amendment:
24 March 1950
Grade
I
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HOVE
TQ2904SE BRUNSWICK TERRACE
579-1/23/25 Nos.33-42 (Consecutive)
24/03/50 and attached railings
GV I
Terrace of dwellings, now flats and hotel. 1824-8, glazing
bars renewed and terrace restored late C20. Architects Amon
Wilds and C.A.Busby. Stucco over brick, roof concealed behind
parapet balustrade. 4 storeys over basement, 3-window frontage
to each unit. Rusticated ground floor, continuous cast-iron
balcony to first floor, giant pilasters with Corinthian
capitals carrying entablature, pilasters carrying eaves
cornice above. Third floor 6-pane sash windows, second floor
12-pane sash windows, first floor 18-pane and ground floor
12-pane; entrances approached by short flights of steps with
cast-iron railings returned to street frontage; fanlights and
2x5 panel doors. Left return of 6 bays onto Holland Road;
parapet balustrade continued over 3 blind windows and 3
full-height bow fronts with sash windows and 1980's
flat-roofed enclosed pilaster porch to No.42 (the Alexandra
Hotel). Right return onto Lansdowne Place with portico
entrance to No.33. Prince Metternich, the Austrian chancellor,
resided at No.42 from September 1848 to April 1849; this visit
is comemmorated by a plaque on the building.