73, The Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. House. 1 related planning application.
73, The Drive
- WRENN ID
- silent-courtyard-plover
- 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
- House
- Address
- 73, The Drive, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN3 3PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 052
- Coordinates
- 50.83197, -0.16773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a substantial house dating to 1888-1890, designed by H.B. Measures and built by William Willett. It is constructed in a Flemish style, using red brick with terracotta detailing. The building has a steeply pitched clay tile roof with a polygonal brick stack rising from the eaves in the centre of the façade, and other stacks on the returns. A tall, shaped gable with dragon finials rises on the right-hand side, featuring three windows opening onto a rebuilt two-storey canted bay balcony. There is a lower shaped gable to the left, supported by full-height pilasters.
The plan is single-fronted, with a symmetrical arrangement of bays. The fenestration is varied, with many-paned upper lights to the sash windows on the first floor. A small, flat-roofed dormer window sits centrally. A recessed central section features an arched-head window with many panes in the centre, with two windows below a pedimented pilaster porch. The porch shelters a segmental-headed entrance with a two-bay unlit opening above, and a panelled door on the right return.
Local climate
73, 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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