Stepping into the apartment, a long corridor greets you with space to hang coats. Ahead, the bedrooms sit to the rear of the building alongside two bathrooms, nicely tucked away from the main living areas residing up a few steps to the front of the building. Grand in scale with soaring ceilings and exquisite period features, the main reception room is an elegant space which invites both entertainment and relaxation. During summer, the floor to ceiling sashes can open allowing access to the three sweet balconies while allowing the cool coastal breeze to flow through. Elsewhere is space for formal dining and reclining on sumptuous furnishings by the fireplace sitting below and ornately decorative mantel and three built-in dressers offering shelves for books and ornaments.
Next door, the kitchen, while dated, is in fine fettle in a county kitchen style with integrated appliances and space for a kitchen table. It could be an idea to move the kitchen to the living room as an open plan space, allowing for a fourth bedroom in its place. Or alternatively knocking-through creating one large dual aspect room – certainly worth a thought as either modernisation could add value.
Moving through to the bedrooms, you pass two bathrooms; one with a bathtub and the other with a shower. Both have avocado suites and retro tiles, and both have plenty of potential for modernisation. Both double rooms have built-in cabinetry, high ceilings and a wealth of original period features. It could certainly be fun adding your own creative flair to this flat as the rooms offer so much in space, light and character. Bedroom three is a smaller room, yet the ceiling height adds to the feeling of space. Its tranquil position in the building will mean it is ideal as a nursery or a study for those working from home.
Vendor’s Comments:
“This property has been in the family for many years, where we have made many happy memories, both inside and outside in the garden enclosures and on the beach. Brunswick Town, and particularly the square, offers its residents the chance to live in a vibrant and welcoming community surrounded by beautiful architecture and with the city and all its delights to discover on foot. You are also right in the middle of both Brighton and Hove’s social centres, and next to the beach - you couldn’t find a better location to live in this city!”
Education:
Primary: Brunswick Primary School, Middle Street Primary School
Secondary: Hove Park, Blatchington Mill, Cardinal Newman RC
Private: Brighton College, Lancing College Prep.
Good to Know:
The brainchild of eminent 19th Century architect Charles Busby; the houses of Brunswick Town are Grade I Listed and are integral to Brighton and Hove’s unique identity as a cosmopolitan city of style and taste. Built as a ‘mini-town’, he hoped to replicate the distinguished Nash developments in London, ideal for the fashionable and wealthy who were flocking to live by the coast, hoping to rub shoulders with royalty. Indeed, the Prince Regent himself was rumoured to have been a guest in the impressive house on the corner of the square!
The beach and communal gardens are your playground, and you can eat your way around the globe on nearby Western and Church Roads. Transport links are excellent and during summer you can stroll along the prom to visit the city’s many theatres, museums and restaurants in the city centre.
