52 and 54, The Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. Villa. 8 related planning applications.
52 and 54, The Drive
- WRENN ID
- salt-corbel-ridge
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- 52 and 54, The Drive, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN3 3PD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 050
- Coordinates
- 50.8306, -0.16729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of semi-detached villas, now converted into flats, dating from the 1880s and designed by William Willett. The houses are built of yellow stock brick, with extensive decorative brickwork used for cornices, string courses, aprons, and lintels. The basement is rendered, and the roof is a 20th-century mansard style with bay windows, dormers, and brick ridge and end stacks forming a continuous wall with windows between.
The buildings are three storeys high plus an attic, and feature full-height canted bays in the centre, with windows above porches on either side. All windows are sash windows with glazing bars set within segmental arches. Cills are supported by shaped brackets. The open rectangular porches have entablatures resting on part-banded columns. The front door to number 52 has a 20th-century canted glazed projection, while the door to number 54 is a six-panel design. Railings are present on the sides of the porches. The buildings are listed for their contribution to the group value of the area.
Local climate
52 and 54, 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 — 30 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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