Rochester Mansions, Palmeira Mansions and Palmeira Avenue Mansions
PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS, 17-19, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- 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
- Statutory Address:
- PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS, 17-19, CHURCH ROAD
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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:
- PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS, 17-19, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- PALMEIRA MANSIONS, 9-15, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- ROCHESTER MANSIONS, 7, CHURCH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365506
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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