Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW SHIP STREET
577-1/64/836 (East side)
20/08/71 Nos.53, 54 AND 55

II

Terraced houses, now shops and offices. Early C19.
Mathematical tile, stucco, and brick in Flemish bond; gauged
brick lintels. Hipped roof of tile to No.53 and to Nos 54 and
55.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement. No.53 of one-window range.
Nos 54 and 55 taken together have a 2-window range to Ship
Street, a curved corner range of one window, and a 2-window
range to Union Street. The join between No.53 and No.54 is
broken, the front wall of the latter angles back and curves
around the corner to Union Street. There are C19 shop fronts
to the ground floor of all, only the entablature of which
remains to No.53. To Nos 54 and 55 the shop front incorporates
a flat-arched entrance on the corner. The entrance and shop
windows are framed by thin Tuscan pilasters. There is, in
addition, a flat-arched entrance at the left party wall of
No.54. No.53 has a shallow segmental bay with tripartite
windows to the first floor. All windows are flat arched. The
bay-window spandrels are faced with mathematical tile. The bay
is capped by an entablature and covered by a semi-domical
metal roof. Sashes of an original early C19 design: 6 x 6 to
centre and 4 x 4 to sides. The single, second-floor window has
4 x 8 sashes in an original early C19 design. All the
upper-floor windows in the group have projecting sills.
Tripartite windows to corner-window range, that to the second
floor with sashes of an early C19 design: 3 x 6 to centre and
2 x 4 to sides. There is a first-floor segmental bay with
tripartite windows in window range next to the party wall with
No.10 Union Street (qv). The jambs separating the side from
centre windows in this bay are treated as Roman "fasces"; the
sashes are of an early C19 design: 6 x 6 to centre and 2 x 2
to sides. Blocked windows to Ship Street elevation. There is a
continuous entablature and parapet topping all 3.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3100304184

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661074

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