Description

HOVE

TQ2804SE MEDINA VILLAS
579-1/21/95 (East side)
Nos.42 AND 43
including walls and piers fronting
road

II

Semi-detached villa. c1852, refenestrated late C19. Probably
by F.D.Bannister. Jacobethan style.
Red brick with diaper pattern, painted quoins distinguish
wings and window openings, painted plinth, slate roof with
cross gables, coped verges, external stacks with tall clusters
of 6 ornamental chimney pots on brick plinths with quoins.
Probably H-plan; semi-detached villa with entrances on returns
of slightly projecting wings.
2 storeys over basement plus attic, 1:2:1 bays, attic
casements with one horizontal glazing bar, others sash windows
without glazing bars, shaped gables with finials and kneelers
to wings, more ornamental gables with finials to two 2-light
attic dormers rising from eaves, 2-light windows gable ends,
2-storey canted bays with ornamental frieze and decorative
string of quatrefoils, some rebuilding to roofline of right
hand bay (No.43), central mullions with hoodmoulds forming 2
narrow windows to central bays on both storeys; centre range
two 2-light with central mullion linked by continuous
hoodmould.
Left return (No.42): full-height projecting gable wing right,
entrance centre, external stack right, 2-light window in gable
end, 3-light below and single storey canted bay on ground
floor; entrance to left via porch with shaped gable and
finial, cambered head opening, recessed door, 2-light window
above, small 2-light window in shaped gabled dormer with
finial; large external stack right, tall chimneypots removed.
Similar right return (No.43) but gable of porch and finial to
east gable missing.
Low wall fronting road, brick with moulded coping, octagonal
gatepiers and moulded coping, central pier at junction with
wall returned to building.
F.D.Bannister, the architect responsible for much of Upper
Cliftonville, as this area was known, was resident at No 42 in
1856.
(Middleton J: A History of Hove: 1979-).

Listing NGR: TQ2870504466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482767

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