Description

HOVE

TQ2904NW CHURCH ROAD
579-1/18/30 (North side)
04/02/81 Nos.21-31 (Odd)
Palmeira Avenue Mansions (21-23) AND
Palmeira Mansions (25-31)
(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 alterations to attic storey. Architect H.J.Lanchester,
builder Jabez Reynolds Senior. Italianate style.
Stucco over brick, shallow pitch slate roofs. Terrace, the end
bay left, No.33 (qv), is listed separately; entrance to No.21
on right return in Palmeira Avenue.
4 storeys plus attic over basement, central 2-tier gable
front, 3-window frontage to each unit; end bay right canted,
each 3-window unit 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 over 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 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; Doric porches with
rusticated columns, half-glazed doors with ornamental metal
grills and fanlights.

Listing NGR: TQ2942404665

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96195949

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)