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Latitude: 50.8307 / 50°49'50"N
Longitude: -0.1681 / 0°10'5"W
OS Eastings: 529107
OS Northings: 105060
OS Grid: TQ291050
Mapcode National: GBR JNX.SCZ
Mapcode Global: FRA B6JW.Y2H
Plus Code: 9C2XRRJJ+7Q
Entry Name: 55, the Drive
Listing Date: 2 November 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1187586
English Heritage Legacy ID: 365622
ID on this website: 101187586
Location: Hove, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN3
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Goldsmid
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Hove All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
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HOVE
TQ2905SW THE DRIVE
579-1/15/109 (West side)
No.55
GV II
Villa now subdivided into flats. 1890-1900. Built by William
Willett. Yellow stock bricks, stone or composition dressings,
hipped concrete tile roofs to canted bays, overhanging eaves
carried on console-shaped brackets to facade, brick stacks
rising as continuous walls on returns with moulded coping.
Plan: double fronted. 2 storeys over basement, 3:1:3 bays,
sash windows without glazing bars in segmental-headed
openings, moulded strings, full-height canted bays flanking
entrance bay, round arched entrance with decorative spandrels,
rusticated piers with garlanded capitals, recessed doorway
with stained glass to fanlights and sidelights, also in the 2
lights inserted in the original 6-panel door; approached by
flight of steps with tessellated pavement. Ornate cast-iron
window box guards survive to ground floor windows. Right
return: 2 tall stairway windows with stained glass.
Listing NGR: TQ2910105060
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