Potential Transformation of Hove HMO into Family Home
In Hove, an owner—who acquired a property once run as an HMO since the 1970s—proposes a shift: the nine-bedroom house, built as a three‐storey, semi‐detached building on York Avenue, transforms into a single-family residence, its design knitting each facility close to its head.
The interior, reformed through a detailed revision, binds a large ground floor—hosting a reception room, a kitchen, a utility area, and a dining room—with upper floors that tightly group seven bedrooms, two family bathrooms, and an extra water closet into an integrated whole.
Preservation of original features stands firm: the brick façade, the sash windows, and the front patio remain adjacent to one another, each element linking directly to the architectural character of the area without undue separation.
A significant rear garden appears at the property’s edge, its spacious expanse conjoined with a private terrace and cycle storage so that outdoor space and indoor quality share immediate syntactic proximity.
The proposal, by sustaining a predominance of family dwellings in an area marked by tightly connected residential typologies, asserts a reordering of the housing stock without breaking the continuous chain of community style.
This conversion, a transformation that reassigns functions while retaining core features, signals a shift in the residential market—a redefinition that interlocks modern investment with established community form.
