Description

HOVE

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

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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

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