Eaton House Including Walls and Railings
EATON HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, EATON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187553
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Eaton House Including Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- EATON HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, EATON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187553
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Eaton House Including Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- EATON HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, EATON 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:
- EATON HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, EATON 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 28992 05014
Details
HOVE
TQ2805SE EATON ROAD 579-1/14/43 (South side) 07/12/89 No.16 Eaton House including walls and railings
GV II
Dwelling, now offices. Late 1880s. Built by William Willett. Yellow stock bricks with lavish use of moulded and incised bricks for cornice, strings, lintels and quoins, hipped slate roof, brick stacks with moulded caps. Double-pile plan, one bay conservatory ground floor left, extension at rear. 3 storeys with attic over basement, 3:1:3 bays; full-height canted outer bays, segmental-headed window openings with cills carried on shaped brackets, sash windows without glazing bars. Round-headed entrance with moulded brick, now painted, carried on piers with foliate capitals. Panelled door with stained glass fanlight, clear glass in place of former lamp, double inner doors with original glazing approached by flight of steps with tessellated pavement. Conservatory: brick wall abutting adjoining property to east, damaged cast-iron cresting to pitched roof, 4 small glass panels painted with birds on the facade, typical of the period, coloured glass to windows. Walls returned from entrance along street frontage; low boundary wall with original cast-iron railings between brick piers with moulded coping. Interior: fine collection of original fittings. Plasterwork friezes to ground floor rooms and stairs; black marble chimneypiece with shaped brackets ground floor right, painted wooden chimneypiece left, laurel-leaf-moulded architrave to arched doorway leading to conservatory; similar architrave at end of blocked through passage, upper portion filled with stained glass. Stained glass panel lighting stairway, ornate cast-iron balusters returned around similar newel post, varnished wooden handrail. Original coloured tesserae floor to hall and stairway; Lincrusta paper dado with sunflower motif in situ throughout, painted over with gloss paint. First floor simple marble pilaster chimneypieces, small angle chimneypiece with damaged grate to room by stairs. Stairs to attic with turned wooden balusters. Rear extensions not seen, probably including another conservatory on this the south front. The house retains most of its original fittings and, with Nos 14 and 18 adjoining, forms part of a good group of substantial residences on the Willett estate.
Listing NGR: TQ2899205014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365522
- 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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