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

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)