6, Third Avenue
6, Third Avenue, Hove, BN3 2PD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187594
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 6, Third Avenue
- Statutory Address:
- 6, Third Avenue, Hove, BN3 2PD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187594
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 6, Third Avenue
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, Third Avenue, Hove, BN3 2PD
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:
- 6, Third Avenue, Hove, BN3 2PD
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 28916 04503
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 October 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ2804SE
579-1/21/124
HOVE
THIRD AVENUE (west side)
No.6
(Formerly listed as No.6, English Language Centre)
GV
II
Villa, language school at time of survey. Early 1880s, dormers rebuilt mid C20. Yellow bricks with moulded brick enrichments, some sandstone dressings, hipped slate roof. Double fronted with entrance range adjoining to left (south).
Three storeys over basement plus attic, 1:3:1:3 bays, two full-height canted bays linked by two storey cast-iron balcony, entrance set back first left, sash windows without glazing bars except for three flat-roofed dormers and French casements windows centre to three bay round-arched cast-iron balcony with enriched spandrels. Left return (south): two tier stone aedicule framing two windows, much eroded at time of survey. Entrance set back in flat-roofed enclosed porch with balustrade approached along south side by tessellated pavement and flight of six marble steps, round-arch opening with enriched spandrels, paired console brackets hung with garlands above foliate capitals carried on rusticated shafts, similar to porch of No 2 (qv).
Interior part inspected: turned baluster stair, semi-rococo style panelling to front room left with scroll heads to panels.
Listing NGR: TQ2891604503
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365641
- 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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