8-14 King's Gardens (Terrace)
8-14 KING'S GARDENS (TERRACE), KINGSWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187568
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 8-14 King's Gardens (Terrace)
- Statutory Address:
- 8-14 KING'S GARDENS (TERRACE), KINGSWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187568
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 8-14 King's Gardens (Terrace)
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8-14 KING'S GARDENS (TERRACE), KINGSWAY
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:
- 8-14 KING'S GARDENS (TERRACE), KINGSWAY
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:
- TQ2888304413
Details
TQ2804SE
579-1/21/70
HOVE
KINGSWAY
(North side)
(Consecutive)
Nos 8-14 (Consecutive) King's
Gardens (terrace)
GV
II
Terrace of houses, now divided into flats. c1880, mid-late C20
alterations to attic storey. Built by J.T.Chapell.
Yellow stock bricks, moulded and incised brick dressings,
mansard slate roofs, part bitumen-covered, overhanging eaves
on terracotta brackets, brick stacks with moulded coping.
Plan: terrace, entrance to No.8 (Royal Court) is on the right
return fronting Third Avenue.
4 storeys plus attic over basement, 1:2:1:1:2:1:2:1:2:1 bays,
end bays break forward slightly, each unit with a 3-window
canted bay rising through 3-storeys, the entrance beside it.
3-light attic dormers with volutes flanked by balustraded
parapet, some with inserted dormers above, moulded brick
cornice, mixed fenestration to third floor, mostly French
casements to first and second floors, sash windows without
glazing bars to ground floor. First floor continuous balcony
carried partly on ornamental terracotta brackets, cast-iron
panels forming dado to wooden pilaster loggia with trelliswork
round-arched arcade to No.14, Nos 11-8 with C20 glazed infil;
the balcony carries the cast-iron balustrade to the second
floor. The first floor balcony also rests on Tuscan porches
approached by flights of steps with cast-iron railings. Three
paired porches and one single, that to No.8 is now blocked
with a C20 window, as are the entrances to Nos 14 & 13; the
others have sidelights, fanlights and half-glazed doors with
the original stained glass.
No.8 was the home of Arthur Sassoon who frequently entertained
Edward VII there. Walls and piers: bottle balustrade returned
right to Third Avenue and left to Fourth Avenue.
Listing NGR: TQ2888304413
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365569
- 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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