Adelaide Crescent

Adelaide Crescent
The east side of the crescent
LocationAdelaide Crescent, Hove, Brighton and Hove, England
Coordinates50°49′29″N 0°09′50″W / 50.8247°N 0.1640°W / 50.8247; -0.1640
Built
  • 1831 (1831)–1860 (Crescent)
  • 1873 (Mansions)
Built forSir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet
ArchitectDecimus Burton
Architectural style(s)Regency/Italianate/Renaissance Revival
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name
  • 1–19 Adelaide Crescent and attached walls and railings
  • 20–38 Adelaide Crescent and attached walls and railings
  • Walls, ramps and stairways on south front of Adelaide Crescent
Designated
  • 24 March 1950
  • 5 May 1969
Reference no.
  • 1298665
  • 1187537
  • 1187539
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name
  • 1–4 Adelaide Mansions
  • Retaining wall to south side of gardens
  • Ten lamp posts
Designated2 November 1992
Reference no.
  • 1205849
  • 1298666
  • 1187538
Adelaide Crescent is located in Brighton & Hove
Adelaide Crescent
Location within Brighton and Hove

Adelaide Crescent is a mid-19th-century residential development in Hove, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Conceived as an ambitious attempt to rival the large, high-class Kemp Town estate east of Brighton, the crescent was not built to its original plan because time and money were insufficient. Nevertheless, together with its northerly neighbour Palmeira Square (with which it is continuous), it forms one of Hove's most important architectural set-pieces. Building work started in 1830 to the design of Decimus Burton. The adjacent land was originally occupied by "the world's largest conservatory", the Anthaeum; its collapse stopped construction of the crescent, which did not resume until the 1850s. The original design was modified and the crescent was eventually finished in the mid-1860s. Together with the Kemp Town and Brunswick Town estates, the crescent is one of the foremost pre-Victorian residential developments in the Brighton area: it has been claimed that "outside Bath, [they] have no superior in England".[1] The buildings in the main part of Adelaide Crescent are Grade II* listed. Some of the associated buildings at the sea-facing south end are listed at the lower Grade II.

  1. ^ Dale 1967, p. 20.