White stucco terraces and 1930s mansion blocks face open lawns and a shingle beach lined with painted huts.
What Hove looks like
Hove's seafront runs as a long, largely unbroken line of white and cream stucco terraces. The buildings rise four to seven storeys, facing a strip of open lawn and a paved promenade. Adelaide Crescent curves in a continuous row of columned porches and iron balconies. , one street back, repeats the same stucco fronts around a private garden square. , a block of flats on the coast road, looks out across toward the water.
These terraces date from the 1820s to the 1880s, built in Regency and Victorian Italianate styles. Raised basement areas and pillared porches run along most of the frontages. , a neo-Georgian block from 1934, stands at the western end of Hove Lawns. Its seven storeys are faced in yellow gault brick over a rendered ground floor, set back behind iron railings.
East of Courtenay Gate, rises in red brick with stone dressings across several linked mansion blocks on Kingsway. Rows of painted wooden beach huts line the shingle below the promenade nearby, standing close together and facing the sea.
Albany Villas and the streets running inland from the front carry the same white stucco fronts, on a wider residential scale than the seafront terraces. Parking lines both sides of the road, wide enough for two rows of cars.
Shot in Hove
Channel 4's series The Siege dressed a terraced Georgian property on Palmeira Square as the Iranian Embassy's exterior for its dramatisation of the 1980 siege. ITV's series Grace has used an apartment at Kings Gardens, overlooking Hove Lawns, as the flat where detectives first meet the character Mark Warden. Grace has also used a house on Braemore Road as the exterior of Roy Grace's own home, with the seafront beach huts visible behind it.
The Siege
Palmeira Square
Played the Iranian Embassy, Knightsbridge, London, 1980
The production dressed a terraced Georgian property on Palmeira Square as the Iranian Embassy's exterior for its dramatisation of the 1980 siege. Filming took place in May 2026, using one of the square's own stucco terraces rather than the real embassy building in London. Street View
Grace
A house on Braemore Road stood in for the exterior of Roy Grace's own home in ITV's Grace, with the painted seafront beach huts visible behind it as the camera pans. The scene plays out from the street rather than inside any one building. Street View
St Leonards, built by the same circle of Regency developers along the coast from Hove, has matching white stucco terraces with bowed fronts and columned porches facing a seafront lawn. St Leonards' seafront road is narrower and its terraces sit slightly further back, so a tight frame on one terrace holds the match better than a wide shot across the whole front. Try searching white stucco seafront terrace now.
Hove's 1930s mansion blocks share the same flat rendered facades and curved balconies that line the street above Bondi Beach. Courtenay Gate, built in 1934, is the clearest example with a yellow brick front and iron balcony rails. Bondi's beach and the climate separate the two in any shot that includes the sand or strong sun, so a frame kept on the buildings and the road holds the match best. Try searching 1930s mansion block balconies now.
Palmeira Square and Adelaide Crescent repeat the same white stucco terraces around a private garden square that define Notting Hill's garden squares, each side built up in a continuous curve. Notting Hill's terraces usually front directly onto the street rather than an open seafront lawn, so a frame that holds the square's garden and excludes the horizon keeps the comparison convincing. Try searching white stucco terraces square now.
A wide lawn running behind a paved waterfront path gives Hove's seafront a similar open layout to the park and boardwalk along The Beaches in Toronto. The Beaches' wooden boardwalk and the lake itself are the clearest tells, so a shot held on the lawn and the buildings behind it works better than one that includes the shoreline. Try searching lawn behind a boardwalk now.
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