The Gables, Including Piers, Walls and Railings
THE GABLES, INCLUDING PIERS, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, THE DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209744
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables, Including Piers, Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, INCLUDING PIERS, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, THE DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209744
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables, Including Piers, Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLES, INCLUDING PIERS, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, THE DRIVE
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:
- THE GABLES, INCLUDING PIERS, WALLS AND RAILINGS, 16, 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 29068 04786
Details
HOVE
TQ2904NW THE DRIVE 579-1/18/107 (West side) No.16 The Gables, including piers, walls and railings
GV II
Villa. 1882, designed by A.Cresswell. Yellow stock bricks, stone dressings, quoins, steeply pitched slate roofs with cresting, ornamental bargeboards, stacks with moulded coping on returns. Double-fronted. Two storeys plus attic over basement, 3:1:3 bays, 2 storey canted outer bays beneath steeply pitched gable ends, sash windows without glazing bars, centre gabled dormer with bargeboards, windows with sidelights in gable ends, moulded cornice to canted bays, flat lintels with keystones to first floor windows, segmental-headed with keystones to ground floor, flat-roofed porch with bottle balustrade parapet, round-arched head opening with decorative spandrels, shaped brackets above ornamented capitals to piers. Half-glazed door with ornamental grill and sidelights, approached by short flight of steps. Brick walls with piers returned with cast-iron railings along street frontage. An unusual if not unique design for the area, surviving unaltered.
Listing NGR: TQ2906804786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365619
- 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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