Description

HOVE

TQ2804SE KINGSWAY 579-1/21/67 (North side) 10/09/71 Nos 2-5 (Consecutive) St Catherine's Terrace and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of dwellings, now including hotel. 1852-3, late C19 and early-mid C20 alterations. Render over brick, hipped slate roofs concealed behind parapet, roughcast stacks. Plan: single-fronted, 5 units, the western 2 now one plus extension forming a hotel. 3 storeys over basement, originally 1 full-height canted bay, sash windows without glazing bars except for first floor with French casement windows and individual canopied balcony with cast-iron columns and balusters carried on ornamental cast-iron brackets, pilaster porch approached by short flight of steps carried on flying buttress over area, cast-iron railings with ornamental heads returned from entrance along street frontage. However subsequent alterations mean that no single unit is as built; 4 canopies survive and remains of a fifth, some blind boxes remain, C20 doors. Returned to left (west): 3 bays, deeply moulded cornice, sash windows without glazing bars and blocked pilaster porch, entrance to hotel via late C19-early C20 addition. Railings returned along west front to No 1 Albany Villas (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ2879704421

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  For the Record