Description

HOVE

TQ2905SW THE DRIVE 579-1/15/108 (West side) Nos.51 AND 53

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses, now subdivided into flats. Early 1880's, some alteration mid-late C20. Built by William Willett. Yellow stock bricks, lavish use of moulded and incised bricks for cornices, aprons, string courses and lintels. Rendered basement, bitumen covered hipped slate roofs. Corner site plan, principal elevation No.53 double-fronted facing onto The Drive, returned to Eaton Road with No.51. Main elevation: 2 storeys plus attic over basement, 1:3:1:3 bays, full-height canted bays, sashes without glazing bars in segmental-headed openings, cills carried on shaped brackets, hipped roof entrance bay projecting into attic storey, gabled dormers with returns rebuilt with glazed panels, round-arched entrance with ornate capitals carried on slender shafts in arris, recessed panel door with inserted lights, fanlight and sidelights renewed. Left return: 2:1:1 bays, similar fenestration, full-height canted bay right, hipped entrance bay projecting into attic storey with applied pilasters, stairway windows in bay to left cutting moulded string, entrance similar to that of No.53 approached by steep flight of steps. Forms part of group of Willett estate houses in The Drive. (Hove Street Directory: 1884-).

Listing NGR: TQ2910105036

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)