41, FIRST AVENUE (See details for further address information)

HOVE

TQ2904NW QUEEN'S PLACE 579-1/18/99 (North side) Nos.2-6 (Consecutive)

GV II

Includes: No.41 FIRST AVENUE. Mews, now garages with dwellings above. 1879, altered C20. Yellow stock bricks, moulded bricks for quoins and other detailing, shallow pitch hipped slate roofs, overhanging eaves, carried on shaped brackets at east and west ends, tall panelled brick stacks with moulded caps surviving on west front, variety of other stacks. North range of mews with west end fronting Second Avenue and east end fronting First Avenue; the First Avenue elevation is the more complete. One-and-a-half storeys, segmental-headed attic window cutting through eaves flanked by 2 casement windows, one bay of the 3-bay segmental-headed blind arcade survives, the 2 bays to left obscured by fascia of Ladbroke's with inserted betting shop. Pair of rusticated gatepiers with ball finials adjoining to left. East end with similar attic window, otherwise unlit, heads of arcade visible above fascia for Hugh's of Hove, ground floor gutted with car showrooms. Pair of rusticated gatepiers adjoining to right. Elevation to mews with mixed fenestration, variety of garage doors. No.1 is known as No.41 First Avenue (West side). The mews are shown on the 1875 OS map. Forms part of a good group with Nos 7-12 (consec) Queen's Place (qv). (Hove Borough Council Building Records).

Listing NGR: TQ2927004631