More information : (TQ 332037 - OS 1:2500 1969)
902 SUSSEX SQUARE
Nos 1 & 2.
No 3 (Chester Court).
Nos 4 to 30 (consec).
No 31 (Prince's Mansions).
Nos 32 to 34 (consec).
Nos 34 & 35 (The Leas).
No 36.
No 37 (Sussex Court).
No 38.
Nos 39 & 40 (Sussex Mansions).
Nos 41 to 50 (consec).
TQ 3303 NW 21/1 13.10.52.
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The whole square. Facades 1825 to 1828. Architects Amon Wilds and
Charles Augustus Busby. Some of the interiors not completed till
1850. Thomas Cubitt built 16 of the houses. Four storeys (with a
5th added in some cases) and basement with area. Three windows
each. The majority of the houses are stuccoed, but some only on
ground floor with yellow brick above. Ground floor rusticated.
Every 3rd house has Corinthian pilasters from 1st to 2nd
floors. Cornice above, then plain pilasters, further cornice and
parapet to roof. Pediment over central house No25. The other houses
are plain. All have stringcourse above 1st floor windows, cornices
above 2nd and 3rd floor, parapet and iron balconies on 1st floor,
some with hoods added later. Some houses have windows set in moulded
surrounds,and a balustrade to parapet in front of 3rd floor windows
(which is occasonally cut away). Glazing bars missing in nearly
all cases on 1st and 2nd floors, and in many cases in the upper
windows also. Most houses have porches with Doric columns (one
Ionic) and triglyph frieze. Rectanguglar fanlights. Photographs
in the NMR.
Sussex Square is part of the Kemp Town lay-out, the whole of which
constitutes a most important group. See KEMP TOWN. (1)
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