Description

HOVE

TQ2804SE THIRD AVENUE
579-1/21/122 (West side)
No.2
including walls and gatepiers

GV II

Villa, now flats. c1880, attic altered mid C20.
Yellow stock bricks, moulded brick detailing and enrichments,
bitumen covered slate roof, overhanging eaves with bracket
cornice, ridge tiles, 2 tall brick stacks rising on returns.
Plan: double-fronted with single-storey garden room on south
front.
3 storeys over basement plus attic, 3:1:3 bays; full-height
canted bays flanking central entrance bay, sashes without
glazing bars, projecting cills carried on brackets, dogtooth
strings, flat-roofed C20 attic dormers, second storey a few
windows with single vertical glazing bar to sash windows,
first floor glazed loggia above porch, 3 bays with 2 bay
returns, original etched glass, coloured glass in upperlights,
strong ovolo moulded cornice with anthemion and palmette
design, ornamental panel to brick plinth forming the parapet
of the porch.
Brickwork porch similar to No.6 (qv), garlanded pairs of
volutes to frieze, foliate capitals on rusticated shafts,
round-arch opening with ornamented spandrels, half-glazed
panelled door approached by flight of marble steps, low wall
with twisted cast-iron handrail, tessellated pavement.
To left single-storey, one-bay, flat-roofed wing returned to
south front with canted bay. Main elevation: pointed arch-head
opening with tympanum of moulded bricks with floral design
forming hoodmould to 2 single-light sash windows.
Interior not inspected; since this range faces south it is
believed to be a garden or breakfast room.
Wall and gatepiers fronting road, brick, gatepiers with
pyramid caps. The property is first mentioned in the street
directories for 1881.

Listing NGR: TQ2890904457

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504897

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)