Description

HOVE

TQ2804SE THIRD AVENUE 579-1/21/123 (West side) No.4

GV II

Villa now flats. c1880, subdivided with alterations to attic space mid C20. Yellow stock bricks, moulded bricks and terracotta dressings, concrete tiled roof. Double fronted with 2-storey projection on South front. 3 storeys over basement with attic, 2:1:4 bays, full-height canted bay right, single-storey projection left, all sash windows without glazing bars except in attic, 2 gabled dormers with decorative frieze below cills flanking C20 dormer, C20 metal glazing bars, single vertical glazing bars to second floor windows resting on decorative string, first floor window openings with arched heads filled with sunflower motif, carried on marble shafts with foliate capitals, decorative panels forming string, very ornate recessed porch: pointed arch opening with decorative inset to soffit, foliate capitals, frieze of unglazed and now faded blue and white tiles with cherubs and foliage, sgraffito panels on reveal walls with figures in Aesthetic Movement costume - one panel is inscribed "Come unto these yellow sands", C20 panelled door; approached by a flight of steps carried on a flying arch over the area of the basement, brick walls returned to building. Left return (south front) canted bay surmounted by 6-bay open loggia with red terracotta columns and foliate capitals - some of the columns heavily eroded at time of Survey, crenellated parapet. Garden front with single-storey wooden loggia approached by a flight of steps. Interior: varnished turned newel stair, remains of tessellated pavement to hall. Original doors with panelled reveals and quatrefoil decoration in overdoor panels. Moulded compartment ceiling to former dining room with frieze of blue and white tiles in window bay, some original chimney pieces remaining, notably in the former drawing room and main bedroom, built-in glass fronted cupboard with circular pattern glazing bars surviving in drawing room; plaster cornice of sinuous vegetation with flowers to ground floor, rossettes to first. It has been suggested that the house was occupied by the Archbishop of York as a summer residence, though it is first mentioned in the street directories for 1881 as Kingsworthy House, a school for ladies run by Miss Scott. An unusually ornate facade showing the influence of the Aestheic Movement, with many original features still surviving.

Listing NGR: TQ2891304480

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