No 8 Including Walls and Gate
NO 8 INCLUDING WALLS AND GATE, 8, EATON GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280756
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- No 8 Including Walls and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- NO 8 INCLUDING WALLS AND GATE, 8, EATON GARDENS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280756
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- No 8 Including Walls and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 8 INCLUDING WALLS AND GATE, 8, EATON GARDENS
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:
- NO 8 INCLUDING WALLS AND GATE, 8, EATON GARDENS
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 29043 05150
Details
HOVE
TQ2905SW EATON GARDENS 579-1/15/41 (East side) 07/12/89 No.8 including walls and gate (Formerly Listed as: EATON GARDENS (East side) No.8 walls fronting road and gate)
GV II
Villa, subsequently divided into flats. 1880s. Built by William Willet. Yellow stock bricks, lavish use of moulded and incised brick for cornices, lintels, aprons and string courses, rendered basement, hipped slate roofs, also hipped to central bay, flat-roofed billiard room wing, tall stacks rising on returns with moulded coping. Plan: double-fronted with billiard room on north front. 2 storeys plus attic over basement, 3:1:3 bays, single-storey 2:3 bay wing left; full-height canted bays flanking entrance bay, all sash windows without glazing bars in segmental-headed openings, shaped blind boxes to all windows except in wing which has astragal leading; cills on shaped brackets, paired windows to 3-storey central bay flanked by detached flat-roofed dormers with tripartite sash windows, paired windows to first floor central bay above round arched opening carried on rusticated piers with ornate capitals (all painted), original 6-panel door, sidelights with fanlight containing original lamp, approached by shallow flight of steps with tessellated pavement, low wall with handrail returned to piers. Billiard room wing to north with parapet and moulded cornice, canted bay right, blind window opening end bay left. Interior not seen, may contain features of interest. Brick wall and square piers, both with moulded stone coping, fronting road, cast-iron railings missing but single hung gate survives at northern end. A handsome villa and one of the best on the Willett estate.
Listing NGR: TQ2904305150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365520
- 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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