Description

HOVE

TQ2905SW EATON GARDENS 579-1/15/41 (East side) 07/12/89 No.8 including walls and gate (Formerly Listed as: EATON GARDENS (East side) No.8 walls fronting road and gate)

GV II

Villa, subsequently divided into flats. 1880s. Built by William Willet. Yellow stock bricks, lavish use of moulded and incised brick for cornices, lintels, aprons and string courses, rendered basement, hipped slate roofs, also hipped to central bay, flat-roofed billiard room wing, tall stacks rising on returns with moulded coping. Plan: double-fronted with billiard room on north front. 2 storeys plus attic over basement, 3:1:3 bays, single-storey 2:3 bay wing left; full-height canted bays flanking entrance bay, all sash windows without glazing bars in segmental-headed openings, shaped blind boxes to all windows except in wing which has astragal leading; cills on shaped brackets, paired windows to 3-storey central bay flanked by detached flat-roofed dormers with tripartite sash windows, paired windows to first floor central bay above round arched opening carried on rusticated piers with ornate capitals (all painted), original 6-panel door, sidelights with fanlight containing original lamp, approached by shallow flight of steps with tessellated pavement, low wall with handrail returned to piers. Billiard room wing to north with parapet and moulded cornice, canted bay right, blind window opening end bay left. Interior not seen, may contain features of interest. Brick wall and square piers, both with moulded stone coping, fronting road, cast-iron railings missing but single hung gate survives at northern end. A handsome villa and one of the best on the Willett estate.

Listing NGR: TQ2904305150

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569850

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)