Brunswick Place Sea Song

Print description

A view out to sea from Brunswick Place in Hove, with its elegant bow-fronted Regency houses curving gently down toward the coast. This scene captures one of the most iconic and graceful streetscapes in Brighton and Hove — full of rhythm, light, and quiet grandeur.

Print details

I created this print from my original ink drawings to which I apply colour digitally. Printed on fine art paper using archival inks. I issue the formats A0, A1 & A2,A3 and A4  as limited editions of 100 where I individually sign and number each print.

Brunswick Place History

Brunswick Place was completed by 1828 as part of the larger Brunswick Estate, designed by architect Charles Augustin Busby. These houses were built to make the most of the sea views, with their signature bow fronts and elegant facades.

Originally, a grand ballroom was planned for the lower section of Brunswick Place — 50 feet long, with a soaring arched ceiling. That idea was eventually dropped in favour of building houses, though some of the classical grandeur remains in the design. Upper Brunswick Place, north of Western Road, came later — with construction beginning in the 1850s and filling out over the next decade.

The people who lived here were very much a Hove mix — retired officers, clergymen, widows with means, and a few titled names in the directory.

Architectural Print

English Heritage listed in 1950 nos. 9 to 69 as level II. Below I have simplified the description of the listing, which otherwise can be too technical:

Terrace of dwellings. c 1840-1855, though some have mid C20 alterations to attics.

The facades are finished with stucco over brick, the roofs with slate.

The hill falls down to sea, creating a view that is very much iconic and representative of the Brighton and Hove streetscape.

The houses are 4 storeys high with the addition of attic and  basement, only Nos. 9 to 13 have deep bow-fronts, The rest have  curved bays with three windows.  Some attic windows are inserted between pilasters in parapets, others with baluster parapets.

The large cornice is moulded with a dentil block design. The windows have moulded surrounds. There are beautiful cast-iron balustrades to the balconies at first floor and the stucco on the façade is rusticated at ground floor with pilaster doorcases.

Most doors have half-glazed panels with leaded lights and the lower ground front patios are guarded with cast-iron railings and bottle balustrading.