57, The Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. Villa.
57, The Drive
- WRENN ID
- still-cobble-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Hove and Portslade MP: Peter Kyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1992
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 57, The Drive, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 050
- Coordinates
- 50.83087, -0.16802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 57 The Drive is a villa built in the 1880s by William Willett. It features yellow stock bricks and makes extensive use of moulded and incised bricks for decorative elements such as cornices, aprons, string courses, and lintels. The basement is rendered, and the roof is covered with plain tiles, including a 20th-century dormer and end stacks, creating continuous walls on the returns. The villa has a double-fronted design with two storeys plus an attic over a basement, arranged in a 3:1:3 bay configuration. Full-height bays flank a central bay, and the sash windows are set in segmental-headed openings with cills supported by shaped brackets. The entrance is round-arched and supported by rusticated piers with ornate capitals, leading to a recessed panelled door with a fanlight and sidelights, approached by a shallow flight of steps. This building is part of a group of Willett buildings in The Drive.
Local climate
57, The Drive receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 25 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings