75 Holland Road, Hove

Palmeira Yard, 75 Holland Road
The building from the southwest
Location75 Holland Road, Hove, Brighton and Hove BN3 1JN, United Kingdom
Coordinates50°49′39″N 0°09′41″W / 50.8276°N 0.1613°W / 50.8276; -0.1613
Built1893
Built forBrighton & Hove Co-operative Supply Association
ArchitectThomas Lainson
Architectural style(s)French Second Empire
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name75 Holland Road
Designated31 May 1974
Reference no.1187561
75 Holland Road, Hove is located in Brighton & Hove
75 Holland Road, Hove
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.