Kings House
Kings House, 8, Queens Gardens, Hove, BN3 2QU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205528
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Kings House
- Statutory Address:
- Kings House, 8, Queens Gardens, Hove, BN3 2QU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205528
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Kings House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Kings House, 8, Queens Gardens, Hove, BN3 2QU
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:
- Kings House, 8, Queens Gardens, Hove, BN3 2QU
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 29094 04389
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
TQ2904SW
579-1/22/54
HOVE
QUEENS GARDENS
No 8, Kings House
(Formerly listed as The South Eastern Electricity Board, GRAND AVENUE, previously listed as: KINGSWAY, The South Eastern Electricity Board))
31/05/74
GV
II
Hotel and dwellings, at time of survey used as offices. 1871-1874, restored 1981 with large addition. Designed by James Knowles, builder J.T.Chappell, extended by Fitzroy Robinson Miller Bourne & Partners for Seeboard.
Yellow stock bricks, quoins, asbestos slate roofs with pyramid roofs to corner towers, overhanging eaves with moulded cornice, tall brick stacks with moulded caps. Italianate style.
L-plan facing south, south front: Seven storey tower left, six storey right, central block of five storeys, 3:15:3 bays; small pediment with heraldic achievement in tympanum covering the central, slightly projecting, three bays, C20 plastic sash windows without glazing bars, round-headed windows to upper stage of tower, three lowest storeys canted bays, segmental heads to ground floor and second floor windows, continous metal balconies on shaped brackets to first and second floors. Former entrance (now disused) in ninth bay right, panelled door. Left return (west) of 3:3:3 bays with six storey tower, fenestration similar to that of main elevation except for tripartite windows in centre bay; abutting C20 addition. Entrance via C20 addition. When first erected the building contained Mr Prince's Hotel in the western part, with the entrance on the site of the present rebuilt S.E.E.B. entrance, and dwellings and a club in the remainder.
David Reuben Sassoon lived at No.7 and entertained the Shah of Persia there in 1889. Over the years Prince's Hotel expanded to include the whole block and down to the Second World War it was one of the finest hotels in Hove. In 1948 it was purchased by the S.E.E.B. who used it as their headquarters until 1994.
Listing NGR: TQ2909404389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365535
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Middleton, J, Hove in Old Picture Postcards, (1983)
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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