Nos 42 and 43 Including Walls and Piers Fronting Road
NOS 42 AND 43 INCLUDING WALLS AND PIERS FRONTING ROAD, 42 AND 43, MEDINA VILLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187578
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 42 and 43 Including Walls and Piers Fronting Road
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 42 AND 43 INCLUDING WALLS AND PIERS FRONTING ROAD, 42 AND 43, MEDINA VILLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187578
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 42 and 43 Including Walls and Piers Fronting Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 42 AND 43 INCLUDING WALLS AND PIERS FRONTING ROAD, 42 AND 43, MEDINA VILLAS
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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:
- NOS 42 AND 43 INCLUDING WALLS AND PIERS FRONTING ROAD, 42 AND 43, MEDINA VILLAS
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 28705 04466
Details
HOVE
TQ2804SE MEDINA VILLAS 579-1/21/95 (East side) Nos.42 AND 43 including walls and piers fronting road
II
Semi-detached villa. c1852, refenestrated late C19. Probably by F.D.Bannister. Jacobethan style. Red brick with diaper pattern, painted quoins distinguish wings and window openings, painted plinth, slate roof with cross gables, coped verges, external stacks with tall clusters of 6 ornamental chimney pots on brick plinths with quoins. Probably H-plan; semi-detached villa with entrances on returns of slightly projecting wings. 2 storeys over basement plus attic, 1:2:1 bays, attic casements with one horizontal glazing bar, others sash windows without glazing bars, shaped gables with finials and kneelers to wings, more ornamental gables with finials to two 2-light attic dormers rising from eaves, 2-light windows gable ends, 2-storey canted bays with ornamental frieze and decorative string of quatrefoils, some rebuilding to roofline of right hand bay (No.43), central mullions with hoodmoulds forming 2 narrow windows to central bays on both storeys; centre range two 2-light with central mullion linked by continuous hoodmould. Left return (No.42): full-height projecting gable wing right, entrance centre, external stack right, 2-light window in gable end, 3-light below and single storey canted bay on ground floor; entrance to left via porch with shaped gable and finial, cambered head opening, recessed door, 2-light window above, small 2-light window in shaped gabled dormer with finial; large external stack right, tall chimneypots removed. Similar right return (No.43) but gable of porch and finial to east gable missing. Low wall fronting road, brick with moulded coping, octagonal gatepiers and moulded coping, central pier at junction with wall returned to building. F.D.Bannister, the architect responsible for much of Upper Cliftonville, as this area was known, was resident at No 42 in 1856. (Middleton J: A History of Hove: 1979-).
Listing NGR: TQ2870504466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Middleton, J, A History of Hove, (1979)
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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