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ROCHESTER MANSIONS, PALMEIRA MANSIONS AND PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187548
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1981
List Entry Name:: ROCHESTER MANSIONS, PALMEIRA MANSIONS AND PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187548
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1981
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: ROCHESTER MANSIONS, PALMEIRA MANSIONS AND PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS
Statutory Address 1:
Statutory Address 2:: PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS, 17-19, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: PALMEIRA MANSIONS, 9-15, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address 4:: ROCHESTER MANSIONS, 7, CHURCH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Statutory Address:: PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS, 17-19, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:: PALMEIRA MANSIONS, 9-15, CHURCH ROAD
Statutory Address:: ROCHESTER MANSIONS, 7, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ2949504650

Details

HOVE

TQ2904NW 579-1/18/28 04/02/81

CHURCH ROAD (North side) Nos.7-19 (Odd) Rochester Mansions (7), Palmeira Mansions (9-15) and Palmeira Ave Mans. (17-19) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROAD No.7 Rochester Mansions) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROAD Nos.9-15 AND 25-31 (Odd) Palmeira Mansions) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROAD Nos.17-23 (Odd) Palmeira Avenue Mansions)

GV II

Terrace of dwellings, now flats and offices. 1883-4, mid-late C20 additions to attic storey. Architect H.J.Lanchester, builder Jabez Reynolds Senior. Italianate style. Exposed cement render over brick Nos 7-11, Nos 13-19 painted, shallow pitch slate roofs. Terrace: entrance to No.19 on left return in Palmeira Avenue, entrance to No.7 on right return in Rochester Gardens. 4 storeys plus attic over basement, central 2-tier gable front, 3-window frontage to each unit. Outer bays canted with entrances on returns, each 3-window frontage breaks forward slightly, linked by string courses. Sash windows without glazing bars, C20 fenestration to attic storey, apart from gable front, some blind boxes surviving; inserted dormers in attic. Central 2-tier gabled centrepiece surmounted by segmental pediment with heraldic achievement in tympanum (presumed to be that of Sir Isaac Goldsmid, Baron Palmeira) set above round-headed opening, 3 round-headed windows below flanked by aedicules resting on heavy moulded eaves cornice carried on paired shaped brackets with ornamental frieze, camber-headed windows in square-headed openings to third floor, second floor square-headed windows each with entablature carried on console brackets, scroll pediment centre, cills resting on shaped brackets. First floor round-headed windows linked by continuous entablature with keystones, pediment to central window, continuous cast-iron balustrade carried on rendered console brackets, rusticated ground floor; flat-roofed Doric porches with rusticated columns, half-glazed doors with ornamental grills and fanlights.

Listing NGR: TQ2949504650

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 365506
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.