Palmeira Avenue Mansions Palmeira Mansions
21-31, CHURCH ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187549
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Palmeira Avenue Mansions Palmeira Mansions
- Statutory Address:
- 21-31, CHURCH ROAD
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- 2005-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/14749/30
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187549
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Palmeira Avenue Mansions Palmeira Mansions
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21-31, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS, 21-23, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- PALMEIRA MANSIONS, 25-31, 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:
- 21-31, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- PALMEIRA AVENUE MANSIONS, 21-23, CHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- PALMEIRA MANSIONS, 25-31, 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:
- TQ 29424 04665
Details
HOVE
TQ2904NW CHURCH ROAD 579-1/18/30 (North side) 04/02/81 Nos.21-31 (Odd) Palmeira Avenue Mansions (21-23) AND Palmeira Mansions (25-31) (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 alterations to attic storey. Architect H.J.Lanchester, builder Jabez Reynolds Senior. Italianate style. Stucco over brick, shallow pitch slate roofs. Terrace, the end bay left, No.33 (qv), is listed separately; entrance to No.21 on right return in Palmeira Avenue. 4 storeys plus attic over basement, central 2-tier gable front, 3-window frontage to each unit; end bay right canted, each 3-window unit 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 over 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 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; Doric porches with rusticated columns, half-glazed doors with ornamental metal grills and fanlights.
Listing NGR: TQ2942404665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365508
- 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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