No 14 Including Front Area Garden Walls

HOVE

TQ2905SW EATON GARDENS 579-1/15/42 (East side) 07/12/89 No.14 including front area garden walls

GV II

Villa, now nursing home. 1880s, built by William Willett. Yellow stock bricks, lavish use of moulded and incised bricks for cornices, lintels, aprons and string courses, rendered basement, hipped slate roofs, also hipped roof to central projecting bay, paired brick stacks with moulded caps rising on returns. Plan: double-fronted. 2 storeys plus attic over basement, 3:1:3 bays, full-height canted bays flanking central bay rising through attic, segmental-headed window openings, sash windows without glazing bars, cills on shaped brackets, paired windows to central bay in attic and on ground floor above round arched opening carried on rusticated piers with foliate capitals, original lamp set in fanlight above recessed door with sidelights, both with original painted leading, half-glazed inner double doors, approached by shallow flight of steps with low wall returned to piers. Brick wall and piers fronting road, moulded stone caps, cast-iron railings missing. Forms part of a good group with Nos 3 and 8 Eaton Gardens (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ2906205245