Marine Parade

Listed buildings

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990.  As a result, some of the content may not reflect recent research, changes and events.

b) LISTED BUILDINGS: There are many listed buildings in Marine Parade, but particularly impressive are the bow-fronted nos.18 (Olivier House), 41-45 and 102-104 (with giant, fluted Ionic pilasters), all designed by Wilds and Busby in the 1820s. They also probably designed nos.37, 50-51, 73, 78, 113-119, 124-127 and 137-141.

Other impressive houses include nos.48 (Chain Pier House, with delicate ironwork porch, home of Captain Samuel Brown, designer of the Chain Pier); 54-55 (wide bow, fluted Corinthian pilasters, verandah); 80-83 (wide bows, porches, pilasters with unusual chevron capitals); 84-89 (a composition once known as Marine Terrace, with a mews at the rear approached through a large archway off Bristol Road); 127-133a (Corinthian pilasters); and nos.142-143 (now Bristol Court flats, but built as the Bristol Hotel in 1835 by proprietor William Hallett and named after the first Marquess of Bristol, a local landowner; it was converted in 1935 and has delicate ironwork balconies).

Also listed are nos.17, 38-40, 52-53, 58, 62-64, 68 (Princess Charlotte's House), 69, 70 (LanesHotel in red brick and knapped flint), 74-77, 100-101, 111-112, 120-123 and 155-165. Nos.100-101 are the Royal Crescent Hotel, opened in 1857. The building was radically altered in 1848 with the addition of three storeys, but the original house was once the home of George Canning, Prime Minister of 1827.

Nos.12, 13, 14, 46 and 47 Marine Parade are included on the council's local list of buildings of special interest. {44,45,46,306}

Any numerical cross-references in the text above refer to resources in the Sources and Bibliography section of the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder