No 8 Including Walls And Gate

This is a villa, likely dating to the 1880s, and later divided into flats. It was built by William Willet and is located on Eaton Gardens, Hove. The villa is constructed of yellow stock bricks, with decorative moulded and incised brickwork used for cornices, lintels, aprons, and string courses. The basement is rendered, and the roof is slate, with a hipped form over the central bay and a flat roof to the billiard room wing. Tall stacks with moulded coping rise on the returns.

The original plan features a double-fronted design with a billiard room added to the north front. The villa is two storeys plus an attic over a basement, with a 3:1:3 bay arrangement. The ground floor has sash windows without glazing bars in segmental-headed openings, with shaped blind boxes to all windows except those in the wing, which have astragal glazing. Cills rest on shaped brackets. The central bay has paired windows on the first floor, above a round arched opening carried on rusticated piers with ornate capitals, all painted. The original six-panel door, flanked by sidelights with a fanlight containing an original lamp, is accessed by a shallow flight of steps with tessellated pavement. A low wall with a handrail returns to piers.

The north-facing billiard room wing features a parapet and moulded cornice, a canted bay on the right, and a blind window opening in the end bay on the left. The interior has not been inspected, but may contain features of interest.

A brick wall with square piers and moulded stone coping runs along the front of the road, originally with cast-iron railings which are now missing. A single hung gate survives at the northern end. This is a handsome villa and considered one of the best examples on the Willett estate.