Nos 2-36 and Attached Railings and Walls
NOS 2-36 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, 2-36, CROMWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205345
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 2-36 and Attached Railings and Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 2-36 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, 2-36, CROMWELL ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205345
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 2-36 and Attached Railings and Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 2-36 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, 2-36, CROMWELL ROAD
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:
- NOS 2-36 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALLS, 2-36, CROMWELL ROAD
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 29295 05331
Details
HOVE
TQ2905SW CROMWELL ROAD 579-1/15/38 Nos.2-36 (Consecutive) and attached railings and walls
GV II
Includes: No.76 THE DRIVE. Dwellings comprising 2 terraces and 6 semi-detached villas. 1880-83, minor alterations particularly to dormer windows 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 basements, hipped concrete and slate roofs, some bitumen covered, tall stacks with ornamental coping. Plan: single fronted houses in terrace, double fronted villas; the group divided in the middle by The Drive. 3 storeys plus attic over basement, full-height canted bays, segmental-headed window openings, sash windows without glazing bars, cills carried on shaped brackets, round-arch head openings on rusticated piers with foliate capitals, 6-panel doors with fanlights and sidelights. Blind boxes survive to many windows and most door surrounds have the original coloured glass. Nos 1-12 (terrace) all with altered attic storeys, No.12 with contemporary cast-iron balconies inserted at first floor level late C20 with French casement windows. Nos 13-24 form 6 pairs of semi-detached villas; the pair Nos 17-18, the latter is larger that others with a 3-bay stepped back return and evidence of contemporary painted glass in windows; Nos 19-20, the former is known as No.76 The Drive and has a large penthouse addition, 2-and-a-half-bay frontage returned onto Cromwell Road, original dormer surviving. Nos 23 & 24 have one original dormer. The terrace Nos 25-36 has original dormers at Nos 30, 31, 32. Solid brick walls with moulded coping returned from entrances along street frontage with gatepiers. A fine group of Willett buildings.
Listing NGR: TQ2929505331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365516
- 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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