page_title: Wykeham Terrace, Brighton
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Wykeham Terrace, Brighton / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Centre bay at 7 and 8 Wykeham Terrace, Brighton, City of Brighton and Hove, England. A terrace of 12 houses in the Tudor-Gothic style, built in 1827 possibly by Amon Henry Wilds. Listed at Grade II by English Heritage (IoE Code 481458)
context_page_description: Wykeham Terrace is a row of 12 early 19th-century houses in central Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The Tudor-Gothic building, attributed to prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds, is built into the hillside below the churchyard of Brighton's ancient parish church. Uses since its completion in 1830 have included a home for former prostitutes and a base for the Territorial Army, but the terrace is now exclusively residential again. Its "charming" architecture is unusual in Brighton, whose 19th-century buildings are predominantly in the Regency style. English Heritage has listed the terrace at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
context_section_description: As a non-ecclesiastical Gothic-style building, Wykeham Terrace is almost unique in Brighton: the remnants of Gothic House in Western Road (now part of a shop), built by Amon Henry Wilds, and the Percy and Wagner Almshouses on Lewes Road, are the only other examples.  It has been called a "charming Gothic confection", and is generally considered "attractive" and "pleasant".  The curious styling is described as Tudor-Gothic (with "Tudor" reflecting the brief 19th-century revival of the original Tudor form), but Nikolaus Pevsner and Ian Nairn considered it Gothic above all, and the description "Regency-Gothic" has also been used in view of some Regency-style elements.
  The whole terrace is faced with grey-painted cement and stucco.  The mansard roof, with dormer windows, is laid with slate.  The long façade is symmetrical but uneven in height: the houses have either two or three storeys with a basement.  At the south and north ends, three-sided bays project forwards and are topped by pinnacles.  In the centre, forming part of numbers 7 and 8, a similar polygonal bay projects from the terrace to form its centrepiece.  Except on these bays, all windows are paired lancets with flat hood moulds, some of which retain their unusual diamond-pattern bars.  The central, five-sided bay is of three storeys, with a large pointed-arched lancet window at the top; a gable cuts into the decorative parapet above it, and buttresses on each side terminate in flat-topped projections.
caption: The five-sided centre bay is topped by a decorative parapet.
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