List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN WALL AND GARDEN PORCH
List Entry Number: 1381029
Location
NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GARDEN WALL AND GARDEN PORCH, 1, TILBURY PLACE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: The City of Brighton and Hove
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 20-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment: 26-Aug-1999
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 481372
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SE TILBURY PLACE
577-1/41/902 (East side)
20/08/71 No.1
and attached railings, garden wall
and garden porch
(Formerly Listed as:
TILBURY PLACE
No.1
The Tarner Home)
GV II
House, now hostel. c1815. For merchant Edwin Tarner. Painted
brick in Flemish bond. Roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: main elevation to garden has a 4-window range. 3
storeys over basement. Return elevation to Tilbury Place,
through which one enters, has a 3-window range. Verandah to
ground floor of main elevation facing garden has cast-iron
railings and stanchions in a net pattern; metal concave roof
in poor repair with some roof panels gone. Opening onto
verandah are 2 flat-arched, tripartite, floor-to-ceiling
windows; one flat-arched window between. First- and
second-floor windows are flat-arched with projecting sills and
lintels of gauged brick; window sizes vary, with those on the
end being aligned and the same size; narrower windows between
are slightly off alignment. Parapet with coping. 2 flat-arched
dormers with top 3-pane sashes of original design; lower
sashes obscured by parapet.
To the right of the block is a single-storey, slate roofed
structure containing kitchen facilities and porch; to rear
wings of C20 date for services. Camber-arched, single-storey
porte-cochere leads from main hallway to garden; walls of
flint; set into north face of this 2 dolphins in cement which
may have been added when the structure was bequeathed to
Brighton Corporation in 1933 to become a charitable home for
the severely ill.
Return elevation has a flat-arched entrance with overlight of
decorative glazing bars and a 6-panelled door with ornamental
studding; set under porch supported on cast-iron colonnettes
with barge boards and low side walls. Porch extends to
basement entrance and area. Stairs to entrances and area have
cast-iron railings in net pattern. Basement window is
camber-arched. All windows above are flat arched with lintels
of gauged brick and projecting sills. Stacks to end walls.
INTERIOR: much altered except for centre stair which has a dog
leg plan, curtail step, balusters and wreathed handrail.
Included in this designation is the high flint garden wall
with brick lacing course and quoin strips which runs along
Carlton Hill to return along Tilbury Place; of special note is
the rustic porch which projects from this wall into the
south-east corner of the garden.
This house forms a group with St John the Evangelist Church,
Carlton Hill (qv), and Nos 2-5 (consecutive) Tilbury Place
(qv).
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 30B).
Listing NGR: TQ3167104385
Selected Sources
Books and journalsCarder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 30B
Map
National Grid Reference: TQ 31671 04385
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