Nos 18 And 18A Including Walls And Railings

HOVE

TQ2905SW EATON ROAD 579-1/15/44 (South side) 07/12/89 Nos.18 AND 18A including walls and railings

GV II

Includes: No.63 TISBURY ROAD. Pair of dwellings, now flats. Late 1880s, built by William Willett. Yellow stock bricks with lavish use of moulded and incised bricks for cornice, strings, lintels and quoins, hipped slate roofs, tall chimneys with moulded caps flanking central bay on north elevation. Plan: corner site, returned to south (the principal elevation) as No.18A Eaton Road and No.63 Tisbury Road (west side). North front: 3 storeys plus attic over basement, with 2-storey range end bay right, irregular fenestration to 4:1 bay facade, segmental-headed window openings, cills carried on shaped brackets, all original sash windows without glazing bars except for C20 windows inserted centre of second floor and on ground floor in end bay right, entrance second bay left, round-arched opening of moulded and painted brick carried on square piers with incised decoration to shafts and ornate capitals, fanlight with original lamp, original panelled door with sidelights and half-glazed inner double doors. Left return onto Norton Road 1:3:1:3 bays with full-height canted bays and gabled dormers, entrance to No.18A fourth bay right through original round-arched opening of moulded brick with panelled door and tessellated pavement, entrance to No.63 Tisbury Road end bay left with detailing similar to that of No.18 Eaton Road. Walls returned from entrances along road frontage as dwarf walls with original cast-iron railings between square piers with moulded caps. Interiors not seen; believed to contain original features similar to those in No.16 Eaton Road (qv). Forms part of a good group of substantial houses on the Willett estate with Nos 14 and 16 Eaton Road (qv) adjoining.

Listing NGR: TQ2901305011