Description

HOVE

TQ2905SW THE DRIVE 579-1/15/113 (West side) Nos.63 AND 65 including walls and gatepiers

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now divided into flats. 1880s, built by William Willett. Yellow stock bricks with lavish use of moulded and incised bricks for cornices, string courses, aprons and lintels, rendered basement, hipped slate roofs with hipped bay projecting into attic storey, gabled dormers. Plan: each dwelling with canted bay to right. 2 storeys plus attic over basement, 1:3:1:3 bays, full-height canted bays with gabled dormers in roof space above, hipped attic storey to entrance bay right, but not to entrance bay end left, sash windows without glazing bars in segmental-headed openings, cills carried on shaped brackets, round arched entrances with ornate capitals carried on rusticated piers, recessed panelled doors with fanlights and sidelights. Broad tessellated pavement to No 65 returned to gatepiers. Walls with gatepiers, brick, moulded coping, square piers with moulded caps, walls without their original railings. Part of a group of Willett estate buildings in The Drive.

Listing NGR: TQ2911105138

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)