Avola House
AVOLA HOUSE, 16, TARRANT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248461
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Avola House
- Statutory Address:
- AVOLA HOUSE, 16, TARRANT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248461
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Avola House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVOLA HOUSE, 16, TARRANT STREET
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:
- AVOLA HOUSE, 16, TARRANT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Arun (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arundel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 01696 07043
Details
1. 5401 TARRANT STREET (North Side) -------------- No 16 (Avola House) TQ 0107 1/61 26.3.49.
II
2. Late C18 [not marked on 1785 map]. Red brick. South elevation rendered. Hipped tile roof. Red and grey brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attics. Plain stringcourse at eaves level, with parapet masking roof. South elevation has 3 double-hung sash windows with glazing bars on 1st floor, and 2 on ground floor, flanking porch with ogival lead roof taken on 3-centred arch with wooden keystone to front, and straight entablatures to sides, supported by Tuscan columns and pilasters. Attic dormers have casements with glazing bars. East elevation has eaves cornice with cyma reversa modillions, 1 range of blocked windows, 2 double-hung sash windows with glazing bars on 1st floor, 1 triple-hung sash window with no glazing bars on ground floor, and 1 6-panelled door, partly glazed, in moulded frame with 5 brick steps (3 treads of Bognor Rock, 1 of limestone) arched over gutter. 1 planked cellar door with segmental head framed by semi-circular relieving arch of grey headers. Terraced garden to south, flanked by brick retaining wall with ramping top. Planked door in east wall, leading to vaulted cellar underneath terrace.
Listing NGR: TQ0169407043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430072
- 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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