Description

HOVE

TQ2905SW EATON ROAD
579-1/15/44 (South side)
07/12/89 Nos.18 AND 18A
including walls and railings

GV II

Includes: No.63 TISBURY ROAD.
Pair of dwellings, now flats. Late 1880s, built by William
Willett. Yellow stock bricks with lavish use of moulded and
incised bricks for cornice, strings, lintels and quoins,
hipped slate roofs, tall chimneys with moulded caps flanking
central bay on north elevation.
Plan: corner site, returned to south (the principal elevation)
as No.18A Eaton Road and No.63 Tisbury Road (west side).
North front: 3 storeys plus attic over basement, with 2-storey
range end bay right, irregular fenestration to 4:1 bay facade,
segmental-headed window openings, cills carried on shaped
brackets, all original sash windows without glazing bars
except for C20 windows inserted centre of second floor and on
ground floor in end bay right, entrance second bay left,
round-arched opening of moulded and painted brick carried on
square piers with incised decoration to shafts and ornate
capitals, fanlight with original lamp, original panelled door
with sidelights and half-glazed inner double doors.
Left return onto Norton Road 1:3:1:3 bays with full-height
canted bays and gabled dormers, entrance to No.18A fourth bay
right through original round-arched opening of moulded brick
with panelled door and tessellated pavement, entrance to No.63
Tisbury Road end bay left with detailing similar to that of
No.18 Eaton Road.
Walls returned from entrances along road frontage as dwarf
walls with original cast-iron railings between square piers
with moulded caps. Interiors not seen; believed to contain
original features similar to those in No.16 Eaton Road (qv).
Forms part of a good group of substantial houses on the
Willett estate with Nos 14 and 16 Eaton Road (qv) adjoining.

Listing NGR: TQ2901305011

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569830

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