Description

HOVE

TQ2904NW
579-1/18/28
04/02/81

CHURCH ROAD
(North side)
Nos.7-19 (Odd)
Rochester Mansions (7), Palmeira
Mansions (9-15) and Palmeira Ave
Mans. (17-19)
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH ROAD
No.7
Rochester Mansions)
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH ROAD
Nos.9-15 AND 25-31 (Odd)
Palmeira Mansions)
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH ROAD
Nos.17-23 (Odd)
Palmeira Avenue Mansions)

GV
II

Terrace of dwellings, now flats and offices. 1883-4, mid-late
C20 additions to attic storey. Architect H.J.Lanchester,
builder Jabez Reynolds Senior. Italianate style.
Exposed cement render over brick Nos 7-11, Nos 13-19 painted,
shallow pitch slate roofs.
Terrace: entrance to No.19 on left return in Palmeira Avenue,
entrance to No.7 on right return in Rochester Gardens.
4 storeys plus attic over basement, central 2-tier gable
front, 3-window frontage to each unit. Outer bays canted with
entrances on returns, each 3-window frontage breaks forward
slightly, linked by string courses. Sash windows without
glazing bars, C20 fenestration to attic storey, apart from
gable front, some blind boxes surviving; inserted dormers in
attic.
Central 2-tier gabled centrepiece surmounted by segmental
pediment with heraldic achievement in tympanum (presumed to be
that of Sir Isaac Goldsmid, Baron Palmeira) set above
round-headed opening, 3 round-headed windows below flanked by
aedicules resting on heavy moulded eaves cornice carried on
paired shaped brackets with ornamental frieze, camber-headed
windows in square-headed openings to third floor, second floor
square-headed windows each with entablature carried on console
brackets, scroll pediment centre, cills resting on shaped
brackets.
First floor round-headed windows linked by continuous
entablature with keystones, pediment to central window,
continuous cast-iron balustrade carried on rendered console
brackets, rusticated ground floor; flat-roofed Doric porches
with rusticated columns, half-glazed doors with ornamental
grills and fanlights.

Listing NGR: TQ2949504650

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96195951

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)