TOWER HOUSE

TOWER HOUSE, 265 AND 267, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381677
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TOWER HOUSE, 265 AND 267, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381677
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER HOUSE, 265 AND 267, LONDON 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:: TOWER HOUSE, 265 AND 267, LONDON ROAD

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 30110 06924

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3006 LONDON ROAD 577-1/12/393 (West side) Nos.265 AND 267 Tower House

II

Detached house. Dated 1902 on the gable of the central dormer, and on the conservatory. Built for John James Savage, a London jeweller. Red brick, render, tile-hanging, cast-iron, roof of tiles. EXTERIOR: 3 and 4 storeys, 6 windows. The house is set out to London Road as 2 symmetrical gabled wings with a recessed centre, and a 4-storey tower to the left. Arcaded porch of 3 bays to centre; entrance under central, elliptical arch with fanlight and keystone; bracketed balcony with wooden balustrade over arcade; the wings have brick quoins and each has a 2-storey, 6-sided bay with plaster ornament to the spandrels, lead ogee roof, and casement windows with top-lights; modillion cornice to gables, whose faces are decorated with strapwork and have a flat-arched window with pediment over; flat-arched dormer with elliptical pediment to centre. Single-storey conservatory to south, semicircular in plan with gables facing east and south. 4-storey tower to south with flat-arched French windows to ground floor, shallow canted oriel to first floor with rendered spandrel and ogee lead roof, keyed oculi to second floor on east, south and west fronts, cornice, segmental-arched tripartite windows to east, south and west fronts on 4th floor, modillion cornice, wooden balustrade and, finally, octagonal lantern with ogee roof and finial. Single-storey, gabled and tile-hung wing west of tower, extended in late C20. The rear elevation consists principally of 2 gabled wings, the gables corniced and tile-hung, with canted tile-hung oriel to left and 6-bay cast-iron round-arched verandah and balcony to right, with decorative piers, openwork spandrels and foliage panels to the balustrade. Some C20 additions to north front. INTERIOR: the vestibule has 2 doors with architraves and elaborate overdoors. The south-east room on the ground floor has an elliptical-arched fireplace alcove with pilasters, panelled reveals and head keystone, and a 3-bay arcade to south with Doric columns, decorative frieze and cornice; the south-west room on the ground floor has a panelled dado and south end framed by pilasters and architrave for former fireplace; shallow curved bay to west, and decorative frieze and cornice. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3011006924

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Sources

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Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

Legal

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