Former Mews is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. Mews, dwellings.

Former Mews

WRENN ID
riven-merlon-sage
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
Mews, dwellings
Address
Former Mews, Second Avenue, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 291 046
Coordinates
50.82695, -0.16726
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former mews, now converted into dwellings over garages, was built between 1875 and 1879 by builder J. Ockenden. It features yellow stock bricks with moulded brick dressings and shallow pitch hipped slate roofs, along with overhanging boarded eaves. The structure has brick stacks with moulded caps, which survive on No. 1.

This U-shaped range of mews faces Second Avenue and is one-and-a-half storeys high. The north-west range (No. 1) has a central gable that projects slightly forward, featuring a segmental-headed window that cuts into an ornate frieze at the eaves cornice. To the left of the gable is a window end bay, and a moulded string runs along the outer bays, which have segmental heads of a blind arcade. The ground floor is almost entirely obscured by inserted garage showrooms with a fascia for Hugh's of Hove.

The south-west range is similar but has two windows on either side of its central gable, with the segmental heads of the ground floor arcade resting between them. This ground floor is also completely obscured by 20th-century garage showrooms with a fascia for Hugh's of Hove. The mews surrounds a stable yard and displays mixed fenestration, including some original sash windows without glazing bars and early garage doors.

Local climate

Former Mews 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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