Description

HOVE

TQ2904NW THE DRIVE
579-1/18/107 (West side)
No.16
The Gables, including piers, walls
and railings

GV II

Villa. 1882, designed by A.Cresswell. Yellow stock bricks,
stone dressings, quoins, steeply pitched slate roofs with
cresting, ornamental bargeboards, stacks with moulded coping
on returns. Double-fronted. Two storeys plus attic over
basement, 3:1:3 bays, 2 storey canted outer bays beneath
steeply pitched gable ends, sash windows without glazing bars,
centre gabled dormer with bargeboards, windows with sidelights
in gable ends, moulded cornice to canted bays, flat lintels
with keystones to first floor windows, segmental-headed with
keystones to ground floor, flat-roofed porch with bottle
balustrade parapet, round-arched head opening with decorative
spandrels, shaped brackets above ornamented capitals to piers.
Half-glazed door with ornamental grill and sidelights,
approached by short flight of steps. Brick walls with piers
returned with cast-iron railings along street frontage. An
unusual if not unique design for the area, surviving
unaltered.

Listing NGR: TQ2906804786

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504796

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)