Hove Club And Attached Wall And Railings

The Hove Club, now partly a casino, was built in 1897 to a design by Samuel Denman. Parts of the ground floor were re-ordered and the first floor converted for casino use in 1978, and other alterations occurred in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, including string courses, a panelled parapet, a clay tiled roof with a glazed skylight at the apex of the south range, and ornamental stacks in the gable ends. It is designed in a Jacobean style, with a parallel range set gable end onto the road (east), and an entrance on the north front via a loggia.

The east front has two storeys over a basement, divided into 1:1:2:1:1 bays. The second and fifth bays are framed by buttresses formed by chimney flues which are united in a small ornamental gable before rising through the gable ends as chimney stacks. The windows are stone arch-head mullion and transom windows with recessed sash windows, lacking glazing bars, and leaded lights at the upper sections of the ground-floor windows. The entrance is in the ground floor bay on the right end, featuring two-light arch-head openings within a three-bay loggia on the north front (now glazed), with a marble pavement and panelled double doors. The south front return has five bays with similar divided flues acting as buttresses rising to ornamental gables at eaves level. The fenestration is similar to the east front, but the central ground-floor window was altered in the late 20th century to provide a French window onto a late-20th-century balustraded balcony, approached by a flight of steps, with a small basement extension built underneath.

The gatepiers and walls are of brick with stone dressings and cast-iron railings, fronting the east end of the building and returning to the entrance. There are six gatepiers with ornamental caps in a Gothic style, and moulded plinths, supporting substantial cast-iron railings set in a low wall with moulded coping.

The interior features raised and fielded panelled doors and dados, with part-glazed doors in decorative, eared architraves. There are moulded pilasters with heavy corbels supporting cross beams with moulded soffits, and decorative low-relief plasterwork to cornice friezes and compartmental ceilings. Wood-block floors and fireplaces with bolection-moulded red marble architraves are also present. Art-nouveau style decorative-leaded lights with tinted glass are in windows and some doors. The open-well stair includes decorative-panelled metal balusters with a sun motif, moulded wooden newels and handrail and a panelled dado, along with a mullioned and transomed stair window with round-arched lights and decorative glazing.