Palmeira Yard, 75 Holland Road | |
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Location | 75 Holland Road, Hove, Brighton and Hove BN3 1JN, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 50°49′39″N 0°09′41″W / 50.8276°N 0.1613°W |
Built | 1893 |
Built for | Brighton & Hove Co-operative Supply Association |
Architect | Thomas Lainson |
Architectural style(s) | French Second Empire |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | 75 Holland Road |
Designated | 31 May 1974 |
Reference no. | 1187561 |
Location within Brighton and Hove |
75 Holland Road in Hove, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove, is now in residential use as loft-style apartments called Palmeira Yard, but was originally a repository belonging to the Brighton & Hove Co-operative Supply Association, the main cooperative business organisation in the area. Elaborately designed in 1893 in the French Second Empire style by local architect Thomas Lainson of the firm Lainson & Sons, the storage building had built-in stables and was lavishly decorated with terracotta. After a period of ownership by haulage and removals company Pickfords, who used the building for furniture storage, a local architecture firm carried out the conversion into mixed-use live-work units between 2004 and 2006. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.