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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504840

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)