Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3006 LONDON ROAD
577-1/12/393 (West side)
Nos.265 AND 267
Tower House

II

Detached house. Dated 1902 on the gable of the central dormer,
and on the conservatory. Built for John James Savage, a London
jeweller. Red brick, render, tile-hanging, cast-iron, roof of
tiles.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 4 storeys, 6 windows. The house is set out to
London Road as 2 symmetrical gabled wings with a recessed
centre, and a 4-storey tower to the left. Arcaded porch of 3
bays to centre; entrance under central, elliptical arch with
fanlight and keystone; bracketed balcony with wooden
balustrade over arcade; the wings have brick quoins and each
has a 2-storey, 6-sided bay with plaster ornament to the
spandrels, lead ogee roof, and casement windows with
top-lights; modillion cornice to gables, whose faces are
decorated with strapwork and have a flat-arched window with
pediment over; flat-arched dormer with elliptical pediment to
centre.
Single-storey conservatory to south, semicircular in plan with
gables facing east and south. 4-storey tower to south with
flat-arched French windows to ground floor, shallow canted
oriel to first floor with rendered spandrel and ogee lead
roof, keyed oculi to second floor on east, south and west
fronts, cornice, segmental-arched tripartite windows to east,
south and west fronts on 4th floor, modillion cornice, wooden
balustrade and, finally, octagonal lantern with ogee roof and
finial. Single-storey, gabled and tile-hung wing west of
tower, extended in late C20.
The rear elevation consists principally of 2 gabled wings, the
gables corniced and tile-hung, with canted tile-hung oriel to
left and 6-bay cast-iron round-arched verandah and balcony to
right, with decorative piers, openwork spandrels and foliage
panels to the balustrade. Some C20 additions to north front.
INTERIOR: the vestibule has 2 doors with architraves and
elaborate overdoors. The south-east room on the ground floor
has an elliptical-arched fireplace alcove with pilasters,
panelled reveals and head keystone, and a 3-bay arcade to
south with Doric columns, decorative frieze and cornice; the
south-west room on the ground floor has a panelled dado and
south end framed by pilasters and architrave for former
fireplace; shallow curved bay to west, and decorative frieze
and cornice.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3011006924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Tower House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q20128144

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)