52, 52A AND 52B, RICHMOND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263077
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: 52, 52A AND 52B, RICHMOND ROAD
Statutory Address:: 52, 52A AND 52B, RICHMOND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263077
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: 52, 52A AND 52B, RICHMOND ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 52, 52A AND 52B, RICHMOND ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 52, 52A AND 52B, RICHMOND ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: West Sussex
District:: Worthing (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 14565 02872

Details

RICHMOND ROAD 1. 5406 No 52, 52A and 52B TQ 1402 NE 3/27 II G.V.

House. 1843, by Charles Hide (1810-1876) architect and town surveyor of Worthing. Whitewashed stone rubble, cement render and pebbledash, old tiled roofs. Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys with attics. Entrance front has 2 4-centred windows at west, one 3 light mullioned and transomed battlemented bay window at east. 2 first floor 2 light casements, one central 2 light casement, one gabled 2 light casement. Central 4-centred arched door with above jettied first floor part timber part painted plaster to imitate studwork bay projection with barge boarded gable. Prominent external chimney breast, corbelled out at first floor 2 twisted stacks. West returned gable has ground floor rectangular bay window, first floor jettied upper gable with painted stud work and elaborate barge boarded gable. Roof hipped at east with battlemented parapet and twisted stacks. 2 storeys wing at canted angle at east has ground floor cross window, first floor 3-light casement, jettied east gable, barge boards. Garden front (north) has returned gable wing at west, large ground floor bay windows. Pebble dashed, slate roofed, 2 storey service wing at rear (No 52A). INTERIOR: 'L' plan ground floor hall with dog-leg staircase with Gothic newels and classical iron balusters. Walls scored for stucco lining, now painted. Doorcases with rusticated surrounds, plaster labels and heads, 3 panel doors with 2 upper 4-centred arches and lower quatrefoil panel tracery. Front door same details with 2 leaded side-lights. Panelled and ribbed ground floor and first floor landing ceiling. Labelled and rusticated opening on half landing. 2 reception rooms of hall with Gothic plaster ceilings, with frieze and cornices, panelled window embrasures. Fireplaces missing throughout. Details in service wing suggest build of same date as house (c1840). An ambitious villa antedating the main development of Worthing, remarkably in a Tudor-Gothic style, picturesquely contrasting with the neighbouring neoclassical villas. Called Gothic Lodge and Tudor Court at various periods. See H Smail Worthing Map Story (1949) p 129 and Edward Snewin and H Smail Glimpses of Old Worthing (1945) p 87; Builder XXXIV, 1876, p 645.

Listing NGR: TQ1456502872

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Legacy System number:: 433289
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Smail, H, Worthing Map Story, (1949), 129
Snewin, E, Smail, H, Glimpses of Old Worthing, (1945), 87
'The Builder' in The Builder, , Vol. 34, (1876), 645

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.