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Grand Avenue Mansions is a block of mansion flats in Hove, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Blurb. It is in a conservation area and is a locally listed building.

History
Plans were submitted to the council on 17 January 1883 and were certified three days later. London-based builder John T. Chappell built the flats, which were completed later that year. His other works in Hove included nearly half the housing stock on the West Brighton estate, the original Hove Town Hall the town's first hospital and an extension to the Goldstone Pumping Station.

Kathleen, Lady Harmsworth (née Berton), widow of Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet, lived at number 3 for 34 years until her death in 1968. Also resident at Grand Avenue Mansions in the 1960s was Milner Holland, lawyer and author of a report into housing conditions in London. Nina Winder Reid, an artist known for her seascape paintings, was born in a flat in the block in 1891.

Saunders Alexius Abbott, an army officer in the British East India Company, died at 2 Grand Avenue Mansions, Hove in 1894.

Middleton (1979) pp57–58

Heritage
Grand Avenue Mansions is part of The Avenues conservation area, one of 34 conservation areas in Brighton and Hove