51 AND 53, THE DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187585
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: 51 AND 53, THE DRIVE
Statutory Address:: 51 AND 53, THE DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187585
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: 51 AND 53, THE DRIVE
Statutory Address 1:: 51 AND 53, THE DRIVE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 51 AND 53, THE DRIVE

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 29104 05037

Details

HOVE

TQ2905SW THE DRIVE 579-1/15/108 (West side) Nos.51 AND 53

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses, now subdivided into flats. Early 1880's, some alteration mid-late C20. Built by William Willett. Yellow stock bricks, lavish use of moulded and incised bricks for cornices, aprons, string courses and lintels. Rendered basement, bitumen covered hipped slate roofs. Corner site plan, principal elevation No.53 double-fronted facing onto The Drive, returned to Eaton Road with No.51. Main elevation: 2 storeys plus attic over basement, 1:3:1:3 bays, full-height canted bays, sashes without glazing bars in segmental-headed openings, cills carried on shaped brackets, hipped roof entrance bay projecting into attic storey, gabled dormers with returns rebuilt with glazed panels, round-arched entrance with ornate capitals carried on slender shafts in arris, recessed panel door with inserted lights, fanlight and sidelights renewed. Left return: 2:1:1 bays, similar fenestration, full-height canted bay right, hipped entrance bay projecting into attic storey with applied pilasters, stairway windows in bay to left cutting moulded string, entrance similar to that of No.53 approached by steep flight of steps. Forms part of group of Willett estate houses in The Drive. (Hove Street Directory: 1884-).

Listing NGR: TQ2910105036

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Legacy System number:: 365620
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hove Street Directory, (1884)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.