Two good quality semi-detached houses set over 3 storeys of c1903, with clear elements of the Arts and Crafts style.
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LLHA0272
Two good quality semi-detached houses set over 3 storeys of c1903, with clear elements of the Arts and Crafts style; interesting original features still remaining. They were designed by the notable local architectural partnership of Clayton and Black and number 4 was the home of Ernest Black, partner in the firm, until his death in 1917.
Red brick with pebbledash to first floors and above and clay-tiled roofs. Unusually for semi-detached houses each roof and façade is different. Of particular note are the unusual gutter supports on flank walls, paired entrance porches, large oak panelled front doors and boot scrapers. Both houses also contain some noteworthy stained glass windows, including a Sussex landscape, with number 4 having stained glass of particular interest in a large side south-facing bay window. Original boundary walls with ball cap piers.
ii. A good example of very well detailed domestic Arts and Crafts-influenced houses that are a good example of work by Clayton and Black architects.
v. Exhibit clear aesthetic interest as an example of artisan Arts and Crafts style influenced houses with carefully designed features to the roofs, windows and entrances in particular. The unusual deliberate variation across the pair gives them a picturesque quality.
i. Number 4 was the home Ernest Black from the time it was built until his death in 1917. The firm of Clayton and Black was responsible for designing and constructing an eclectic range of buildings in the growing towns of Brighton & Hove in the late-Victorian, Edwardian and inter-war years; they designed numbers 4 and 6 and likely also numbers 14 and 16 Windlesham Road.
ii. Outside of a conservation area, but make a positive contribution to the street scene and which stand out for their intactness and quality of detailing in a road of varied detached and semi-detached houses.
i. A comparatively rare example in the city of surviving high-quality, distinctive semi-detached houses in a style influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. Unusual for not being a matching pair.
ii. Retain the majority of design features externally and the front garden setting, including the boundary walls and pillars.
2023
