Albemarle Mansions including piers and walls returned along road frontage
Albemarle Mansions, 1-3, Kingsway, Hove
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187564
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Albemarle Mansions including piers and walls returned along road frontage
- Statutory Address:
- Albemarle Mansions, 1-3, Kingsway, Hove
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- Date:
- 2005-10-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/14864/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187564
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Albemarle Mansions including piers and walls returned along road frontage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Albemarle Mansions, 1-3, Kingsway, Hove
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:
- Albemarle Mansions, 1-3, Kingsway, Hove
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 28629 04400
Details
TQ2804SE
579-1/21/62
HOVE
KINGSWAY (south side)
Nos 1-3 (Cons) Albemarle Mansions including piers and walls returned along road frontage
GV
II
Block of apartments. c1870. Render over brick, roofs concealed behind parapet. L-plan: abutting Victoria Terrace (qv) west, returned to Medina Terrace (qv) to south, entrance on north elevation. Three storeys plus basement, north front: 3:2 bays, full-height canted bay left, sash windows without glazing bars; pierced parapet similar to that of Medina Terrace (qv), dentil moulded cornice, moulded string, first floor window round-headed with pediments to second, fourth and fifth bays, ground floor with large keystone to camber-headed window openings; flat roofed porch with C20 wrought-iron balustrade occupying first and second bays right, arched opening carried on piers with three bay loggia on left return, subsequently infilled, fanlight and panelled door. Two identical statues of a knight, about one metre high, have been added to the loggia.
Left return: east front, 1:3:3 bays with two full-height canted bays, rusticated ground floor. Cast-iron window box guards on cills of ground floor windows. Very similar to the facade of Medina Terrace (qv) abutting to south, but one storey lower.
Walls and piers: a continuation of those fronting Medina Terrace (qv) and returned to entrance of Albemarle Mansions. Rendered brick and terracotta. Rusticated piers with shallow pyramid caps, wall with moulded coping and balustrade of interlocking circles.
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TQ2862904400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365558
- 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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