6, Third Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. Villa, language school.

6, Third Avenue

WRENN ID
nether-sandstone-linden
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, language school
Address
6, Third Avenue, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN3 2PD
OS grid reference
TQ 289 045
Coordinates
50.82572, -0.17097
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 6 Third Avenue is a villa that was used as a language school at the time of the survey. It was built in the early 1880s, with the dormers being rebuilt in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed from yellow bricks with moulded brick details and some sandstone dressings, topped with a hipped slate roof. It is double fronted, with an entrance range adjoining to the left (south).

The villa has three storeys over a basement plus an attic, featuring a layout of 1:3:1:3 bays. There are two full-height canted bays that are connected by a two-storey cast-iron balcony. The entrance is set back to the first left, and the windows are sash style without glazing bars, except for three flat-roofed dormers. The centre features French casement windows leading to a three-bay round-arched cast-iron balcony with enriched spandrels.

On the left return (south side), there is a two-tier stone aedicule framing two windows, which was noted to be much eroded at the time of the survey. The entrance is set back in a flat-roofed enclosed porch with a balustrade, approached along the south side by a tessellated pavement and a flight of six marble steps. The entrance has a round-arch opening with enriched spandrels and paired console brackets adorned with garlands above foliate capitals carried on rusticated shafts, similar to the porch of No. 2.

The interior was partially inspected and includes a turned baluster stair and semi-rococo style panelling in the front room on the left, featuring scroll heads on the panels.

Local climate

6, Third Avenue 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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