3, Eaton Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1989. Villa.
3, Eaton Gardens
- WRENN ID
- idle-minaret-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Hove and Portslade MP: Peter Kyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1989
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 3, Eaton Gardens, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 051
- Coordinates
- 50.83132, -0.16974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 Eaton Gardens is a villa, now divided into flats, built in the 1880s by William Willett. The building features yellow stock bricks, incised bricks, and stone lintels, topped with a bitumen-covered hipped slate roof that has overhanging eaves supported by shaped brackets on the facade. A hipped roof crowns the central projecting bay, and there are tall paired stacks with moulded caps on the returns.
The villa is double-fronted and includes a conservatory on the north return. It has two storeys plus an attic over a basement, with a facade organized into three main bays, flanked by full-height canted bays on either side of the entrance bay. All window openings are square-headed, featuring chamfered and incised continuous lintels, with cills supported by shaped brackets. The sash windows lack glazing bars and have blind boxes, except for the central bay, which projects through the eaves. The building also has a strongly moulded cornice, paired windows, and flat-roofed attic windows with one vertical glazing bar.
The ground floor cornice is also moulded, and the entrance features a central round-arched opening with large ornate capitals on slender columns set in arris. The original panelled door is accompanied by sidelights and a fanlight, accessed by a shallow flight of steps. To the right is a coeval single-storey conservatory with a curved glass roof and many-paned leading. This villa forms part of a group with Nos. 8 and 14 Eaton Gardens.
Local climate
3, Eaton Gardens 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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