Courtenay Terrace Courtenay Towers and South East Wall
COURTENAY TERRACE, KINGSWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205884
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Courtenay Terrace Courtenay Towers and South East Wall
- Statutory Address:
- COURTENAY TERRACE, KINGSWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205884
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Courtenay Terrace Courtenay Towers and South East Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURTENAY TERRACE, KINGSWAY
- Statutory Address 2:
- COURTENAY TOWERS AND SOUTH EAST WALL, KINGSWAY
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:
- COURTENAY TERRACE, KINGSWAY
- Statutory Address:
- COURTENAY TOWERS AND SOUTH EAST WALL, KINGSWAY
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 28725 04385
Details
HOVE
TQ2804SE KINGSWAY 579-1/21/75 (South side) 10/09/71 Courtenay Terrace: Courtenay Towers and SE wall (Formerly Listed as: KINGSWAY Courtenay Side. Courtenay Towers)
GV II
Part of villa, now part of terrace. Mid C19 villa, divided 1933, parapet to tower rebuilt as crenellations C20. Stucco over brick, pilaster quoins to tower, roof concealed behind parapet, roughcast stacks. Plan: double-fronted. 3 storeys with 4-storey entrance tower, 1:1:1 bays, central entrance tower projecting forward; crenellated tower with cavetto moulded cornice and ornamental frieze, modillion cornice to second floor continued into left hand bay, right with bottle balustraded parapet, all sash windows with one vertical glazing bar in moulded surrounds with keystones and rounded corners to top, except for ground floor which has bracketed frieze and rusticated keystones to segmental-headed openings now filled with C20 casements left and obliterated by large C20 window right, paired Ionic pilasters to arch-head opening of recessed porch, closed by double hung cast-iron gates, panelled double doors with ornamental grill, fanlight above, approached by shallow flight of steps. Low rendered walls of square piers with recessed panels linked by walls with segmental recesses - an unusual, slightly art deco design, presumably dating from 1933. Garden wall to rear of coursed pebbles with cement hump-backed coping. The detailing is similar to that of Courtenayside (qv) abutting to west. This was originally the main part of Hove Lea, a villa shown on the 1875 OS map.
Listing NGR: TQ2872504385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365561
- 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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