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Caburn Road, Hove
BN3 6EF
Part of the Southdown Estate. The road was laid out by George Burstow for J E Butt & Sons1. 1ESRO DO/C/6/1351 (17 September 1895)
Caister's Close, Hove
BN3 6GQ
Cul-de-sac off Upper Drive  
Caledonian Road
BN2 3EY, 3HX
One of several streets with Scottish names built in the 1860s between Lewes Road and Upper Lewes Road. Queen Victoria's attachment to the Highlands made such names popular. Two-storey terraces, consecutively numbered. Pa1865—
California Cottages Former name of Melbourne Street. Small houses, building in 1856. Fo1856–Fo1859
Cambden Terrace Misspelling of Camden Terrace (???). [1826]
Camber Close, Whitehawk
BN2 5LZ
Provides (rear) access to properties in Findon Road and Whitehawk Way. Numbered 3 August 19831. 1ESRO DB/D/27/445
Cambridge Grove, Hove
BN3 3ED, 3EZ

Willett Estate CA (excluding depot and works).
Former mews, which included the film studio of Williamson Kinematograph Company from 1902 until 1910, when the premises were taken over by the Natural Colour Kinematograph Company, whose Kinemacolor system was the world's first commercially introduced colour film system. The name Kinemacolor was still painted on the back wall, overlooking the railway track; this unique piece of architectural heritage from the early cinema days has been unforgivably obliterated under pointless graffiti.
Cambridge Grove is one of the locations in An Interesting Story (1904).
Pi1915—
Cambridge Mews, Hove
BN3 3EZ
Gated development between Cambridge Grove and the railway tracks comprising four terraces each of five houses at right angles to the access road.
Cambridge Road, Hove
BN3 3DE, 3DF

Brunswick Town CA.
Two houses building in 18511.
      St Patrick's Church was designed by H E Kendall and opened in 1858 as St James's Church. It was rededicated to St Patrick and St James in 1865 and then to St Patrick alone in 1868, with minor additions in the 1870s. The church is Grade II listed and includes a WW1 triptych2.
Fo1862—
1Census1851
2ESRO MES35568
Cambridge Street Between Albion Hill and Richmond Street.
Badly damaged on the east side and at the north-west corner by bombing during the Second World War, the road was lost in the slum clearance and development of the high-rise social housing flats in Grove Hill: Normanhurst stands on the line of the former street.
Fo1848–Ke1958
Camden Street, Portslade Formerly retail and trades, now industrial units. Census1881; Pa1890—
Camden Terrace, Brighton
BN1 3LR

West Hill CA.
From 51 Trafalgar Street to 73 Gloucester Lane.
      (Also spelt Cambden). Pedestrian only. Small houses. Renumbered 3 April 18841.
Fo1850—
1ESRO DB/D/27/178
Camden Terrace, Portslade
BN41 1AW, 1DU
In Shoreham Road. 1881; Pa1890–To1898
Camelford Street
BN2 1TQ, 1WQ

East Cliff CA.
Mostly built late 18th century, formerly York Street (1799), re-named before 1851. Number of properties in 1822: 36. Numbering is sequential from the south-west corner. returning on the east side.
      8-19 are late 18th century. Grade II listed1.
The White Horse       22 is late 18th century. Grade II listed2.
      ph 30-31, Camelford Arms [right] dates from the early 1830s as the White Horse at 31. In 1868 it was listed at 30½ (landlord: Thomas Reed) and 31 was the Bull Tavern (landlord: John Weir); by 1871 Reed changed the name back and was still at 30½ but 31 had a new landlord (Thomas Jones) was now called the Original White Horse. Reed' White Horse was numbered 30 in 1874 (30½ and 31 were merged?—as the 1960s picture implies) but a new landlord (John Packham) was in place in 1875.
      32 was altered in 18905.
      33-35 are late 18th century. Grade II listed3.
      36 (Eastern Lodge), dating from the early 19th century, was the residence from 1881 until his death of social reformer George Holyoake from 1886 to his death in 1906. Cooperative Society plaque. Grade II listed4
Ba1822—
1HE 1380042
2HE 1380043
3HE 1380044
4HE 1380045
5ESRO DB/D/8/3216 (6 Mar 1890)
Campbell Road, Preston
BN1 4OD
Terraced street, built early 1870s. Named, like the adjacent Argyle Road and the nearby Lorne Road, after John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne and heir to the dukedom of Argyll. Pa1881—
Canfield Close
BN2 4DJ
Steeply sloping cul-de-sac. Bungalows. Built 1956-1959. Numbered 2 December 19591. Ke1960—
1ESRO DB/D/27/360
Canfield Road
BN2 4DN
Steeply sloping road of two-storey terraced housing in blocks of four. Laid out in 1924. Ke1932—
Canning Street
BN2 0EF

College CA.
One of several streets near Brighton College named after prime ministers. This was the first street laid out off Sutherland Road north of the college and was initially called Canning Terrace, after Rt Hon George Canning MP, who lived in Brighton. Renumbered 15 November 18821. There is a tile-in-iron-frame street name on no 53. Pa1867—
1ESRO DB/D/27/257
Cannon Cottages At 34 Cannon Street.
      Cul-de-sac of small houses.
Pa1867–Pi1929
Cannon Court At 10 Great Russell Street.
      Cul-de-sac of small tenements.
Pa1872–Pi1928
Cannon Lane Renumbered 21 September 19161. Trades, latterly motor-related. It was cleared in 1963/64 in the Churchill Square development. Pa1872–Ke1966
1ESRO DB/D/27/234, DB/D/46/842
Cannon Place
BN1 2FB

Regency Square CA.
Built close to the West Battery and completed around 1825, it is still notionally numbered sequentially from the south-east corner. A skeleton was discovered at the southern end during excavations for the western sewer in August 1840.
      27-28 were built c1820. They are Grade II listed1.
      30 was built c1820. It is Grade II listed with 1 St Margaret's Placce2.
      31-32 are Grade II listed3.
      31 Royal Newburgh Assembly Rooms were opened by bookseller and librarian Charles Wright (Wright & Sons) c1833 and designed by Amon Wilds & C A Busby.
Ba1822—
1HE 1380046
2HE 1380047
3HE 1380048
Cannon Place Mews Former name of Cannon Lane. [1826]
Cannon Row At 11 Great Russell Street.
      Cul-de-sac of small tenements.
Pa1872–Pa1893
Cannon Street Formerly known as Suffolk Street, the cottages &c on the west side were built 1810s. Numbering was sequential from the north-east corner. It was lost in the Churchill Square development.
      ph 4 was the Hope Inn, which opened by 1824 and closed in 1958.
      ph 30 was The Flowing Tide, which had been The King & Queen from 1839 to 1848, apparently became the Tide Flowing Inn from 1871 to 1884 and, with its final name thereafter closed in 1931.
      34 was St Margaret's Mission Hall.
      ph 41 was the Fire Brigade Arms, owned by Tamplins, which opened in 1874 and closed on 28 July 1936.
Ta1854–Ke1960
Cannon Terrace Numbered in Russell Square by 1872. Ta1854–Pa1871
Canterbury Drive
BN2 3FY, 3FZ, 3GD, 3GF
Part of the Sylvan Hall Estate: Elm Lodge, Rowan House, The Lindens. Ke1954—
Carden Avenue Estate, Patcham Comprising Carden Close, Carden Crescent, Galliers Close, Haywards Road, Morecambe Road, Portfield Avenue, Singleton Road and Tangmere Road. Numbered 25 July 19351. The estate was commenced in the 1930s and mainly built in the late 1940s. Some (many? most?) of the roads were constructed of concrete slabs laid by German prisoners-of-war.
      Alderman Sir Herbert Carden (1867-1941) was a solicitor and socialist local politician (see also 30 Old Steine).
1ESRO DB/D/27/13
Carden Avenue, Withdean/Patcham/Hollingbury
BN1 5LA, 5LE, 5LG, 5LH, 5LH, 5NA, 5NE
Numbered 9 March 19391. Partial renumbered 18 November 19472. Supplementary numbering 4 February 19653. Cremated human remains were found in a prehistoric bowl barrow at a site close to the northern edge of the Asda car park in 19214.
      2 'Burpham' was built in 1928 for W Page.
      14, 16, 22, 24, 26, 34, 40 were designed by J Gordon Allen 1922-26.
      42 'The Cottage' was built for Herbert Carden by architect J Gordon Allen in 1926 and altered in 1927 for A S Pearson by W E A Elliott Ltd.
      County Oak Medical Centre.
      Carden Primary School. See County Oak Avenue.
      ph 189 was The Snipe Inn, designed by Denman & Son for Kemp Town Brewery in 1937/38. It closed in 2009 and is now a mini-supermarket.
Ke1932—
1ESRO DB/D/27/53
2ESRO DB/D/27/276
3ESRO DB/D/27/422
Carden Close, Patcham
BN1 8TP
Renumbered 25 July 19351. Ke1934—
1ESRO DB/D/27/13
Carden Crescent, Patcham
BN1 8TQ
Part numbered 25 July 19351. Ke1934—
1ESRO DB/D/27/13
Carden Hill, Patcham
BN1 8AA, 8AB, 8AH, 8DA, 8DB, 8DD
Numbered 27 September 1951 and 12 September 19631.
      County Oak Medical Centre.
Ke1949—
1ESRO DB/D/27/403
2ESRO DB/D/27/230
Carden Park, Patcham Recreation ground off Carden Hill.
Carisbrooke Road
BN2 3EF
Small two-storey terraced houses, nearly all built in 1904 by George Burstow. One of several roads named after places in the Isle of Wight (see also Totland Road, Ryde Road, Sandown Road).
      47-53. This land was conveyanced from Champion to Jay in 19051, who had four houses built, designed by John Blackman2.
Pi1905—
1ESRO ACC5310/108
2ESRO DB/D/7/5879
Carlisle Road, Hove
BN3 4FP, 4FQ, 4FR, 4FS
Built 1890s. Charles Stewart Parnell MP (1846-1891) lived in a house on the corner with Kingsway. Plaque on
      Dorset Court: see 211-213 Kingsway.
      Pillar Box at north-east corner bears the VR royal cipher.
Pi1896—
Carlton Court At 8 Circus Street.
      A narrow (six foor wide) alley of three-storey terraced houses, demolished in 1933.
Ke1845–Ke1933
map
Carlton Grove Off Circus Street.
      Small houses/tenements.
Ta1854–Fo1864
map
Carlton Hill Area of steep streets leading up from Grand Parade to the north of Edward Street. Named after Carlton House, a London royal residence. Renowned as the worst Brighton slums between the wars, much of the area was subject to the Brighton Corporation Compulsory Puchase Order 19311. Properties were demolished and residents re-housed at Whitehawk, Moulescoomb and elsewhere. 1ESRO DB/A/1/16
Carlton Hill (CA) Conservation area, designated 2008; 1.64ha, 4.05 acres Character statement
map
Carlton Hill
BN2 0DA, 0GW, 0GX, 0HA, 0HF

Carlton Hill CA (70, 70a, St John the Evangelist, Edward Riley Memorial Hall)
Construction began 1810, wehn it was called Carlton Street. Number of properties in 1822: 78. The name changed to Carlton Hill in 1871. The section west of John Street is now Kingsbury Street. In a courtyard behind the School of Art on the corner with Grand Parade was a Catholic Apostolic Church that opened in 1865 and closed in 1954, being demolished 10 years later. It was partially renumbered 4 February 18971; numbering is sequential from the north-west corner, returning along the south side. No fewer than 29 addresses were pubs or beerhouses at one time or another. All the original buildings on the north side have been removed or replaced.

NORTH SIDE west to east
The section west of John Street was renamed Kingswood Street in 1938; it is included here as it was before that time.
—Here is Circus Street.
      ph1 was a beerhouse by 1874 and became the Carlton Arms, It closed in 1910.
—Here was Carlton Row.
—Here was an archweay leading to Carlton Mews.
—Here was Carlton Court.
      †Woburn Place flats were numbered 24 January 19353and soon became Milner Flats.
      ph1 was the George IV by 1822 and closed in 1905.
—Here was Nelson Row.
—Here was Nelson Place.
—Here was Nelson Street.
—Here is John Street.
      Carlton Hill [Primary] School [23].
—Here is Carlton Street.
      ph29-30 was The Sack of Shavings, which opened c1890 and closed in 1928.
      ph32 was the Alma Tavern, which opened c1856 and closed in 1927. It was owned by the Smithers brewery family from 1868 to 1901 and then the Amber Ale Brewery.
—Here is Richmond Hill.
—Here is Tilbury Place.
      Church of St John the Evangelist, designed and built by the local firm of Cheesman and Son as the third commission of Rev Henry Wagner, was Anglican between 1840 and 1980; the facade was altered in 1957 (the monogram of L A Mackintosh is part of the design). It was re-consecrated as the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in March 1986 when that congregation moved from Windsor Lodge in High Street and is Grade II listed2.
      Edward Riley Memorial Hall was a Diocesan Centre for the Deaf, opened in 1938. In 2015 it became the Carlton Hill centre for autism and since c2020 has been an events venue called Trinity Hall.
—Here is St John's Place.>
      ph47 was The Victory Inn from 1885 to 1905.
—Here is Lennox Street.
—Here is Marine View.
      ph 52 was the Devonshire Arms, designed by Denman & Son in 1928/29 for Kemp Town Brewery. It closed c2016.
      53, Carlton Mount apartment block.
—Here is Upper Park Place.

SOUTH SIDE (east to west)
—Here is Mount Pleasant.
—Here was Grosvenor Street.
      ph60 was a beerhouse from 1859, became The Rising Sun from 1880 and closed in 1921.
      ph 61 was a beerhouse called The Good Intent from 1839. It became The Morning Star c1854 and closed in 1895.
—Here is Blaker Street.
—Here is White Street.
—Here is Mighell Street.
      ph80 was The Italian Arms, from 1890 to 1951.
—Here was Boss's Gardens.
      ph84 was The John Bull Tavern, from 1854 to c1940.
—Here is John Street.
—Here is Nelson Row.
      ph90 was The Foresters Arms, from 1892 to 1960.
—Here was Henry Street.
      ph92 was The Carlton Tavern, a beerhouse from c1854, then with this name from the 1880s to 1916.
—Here is William Street.
      ph94 was The Brewers Arms, from c1854 to 1884.
      ph95 was The Star Tavern, from c1874 to 1926.
      †91 was a shop on the corner of William Street that survived surrounding demolition until the early 1960s.
Ba1822— (as Carlton Street)
map
1ESRO DB/D/27/230
2HE 1380049
3ESRO DB/D/27/16
Carlton Mews Through an archway off Carlton Hill. map
Carlton Place Formerly the terrace on Grand Parade north of Carlton Hill.

      †Royal Circus and Amphitheatre was opened here in August 1808 by T Kendall & Co. It included a coffee house but was not popular and closed in 1812. It gave its name to various Circus-named street adjacent.
Marchant-Sicklemore map 1809-1815
Carlton Place
BN2 0GZ
Originally running from Carlton Hill to Park Road Terrace, the 10 houses on the west side were removed in 1936. The east side of rendered two- and three-storey terraced houses stood until the late 1950s. All that remains is a short stub of a cul-de-sac leading to the Chesterfield Court flats. Marchant-Sicklemore map 1809; Census1851; Ta1854–Pa1871
Carlton Row From 125 Sussex Street to 13 Carlton Street.
      Number of properties in 1822: 40.
Ba1822–Ke1933
map
Carlton Street At 54 Grand Parade.
      The former name of Carlton Hill until 1871. Dates from c1810. Previously known as Guildford Terrace.
      Carlton Street School 1851.
      Dorset Cottage 1851.
Ta1854–Pa1871
Carlton Street Between Carlton Hill and Sussex Street.
      Previously known as Guildford Terrace from c1854, now Kingswood Street.
      Carlton Street School 1851.
      Dorset Cottage 1851.
      Garden Cottage 1851.
      Saracen's Head (travellers' lodging house). 1851.
Census1841
Ke1845—
Carlton Terrace, Portslade
BN41 1UR, 1XF, 1XW
  Census1881; Pa1890—
Carlyle Avenue
BN2 4DR
Laid out in 1924, complete by c1930. Inter-war years social housing. Ke1932—
Carlyle Street
BN2 9XU, 9XW
One of several streets named after Victorian philosophers and reformers (cf, Bentham Road, Cobden Road). Thomas Carlyle (1795 1881), historian and man of letters. Under construction and numbered 20 April 18811.
      4 (old numbering) was conveyanced from Stevens, Stevens & Friend to Belchambers in 1880.
Pa1881—
1ESRO DB/D/27/222
Carol Close, Patcham
BN1 8QG
Numbered 1 June 19611. L-shaped cul-de-sac of detached bungalows. Ke1964—
1ESRO DB/D/27/395
Castle Square
BN1 1EG

Valley Gardens CA.
Castle Inn, opened 1755, was on the east side when Steine Lane formed the south side of the square. Number of properties in 1822: 12. the road into The Steine was widened in 18259.
      1, 1A, probably designed by Wilds & Busby, are Grade II listed1.
      2,3 are Grade II listed2.
      4 is Grade II listed3.
      ph 5 is currently a wine bar and is Grade II listed4.
      6 are Grade II listed5.
      ph 7-8 Royal Pavilion Tavern is Grade II listed
      8-14 Pavilion Buildings form part of Castle Square.
      60 opened on 20 January 1933 as Electric House, the offices and showroom of Brighton Corporation's electricity supply service (later the South Eastern Electricity Board, Seeboard). The town's coat of arms are incorporated on the first-floor façade. Offices on the second floor were leased to Barclays Bank8. It became the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1989 but was vacated in November 2021.
      A railway booking office was here7.
Co1799—
1HE 1380050
2HE 1380051
3HE 1380052
4HE 1380053
5HE 1380054
6HE 1380055
7Erredge (1862) 225
8ESRO ACC 7600/22
8Brighton Gazette 24 Feb 1825:3
Castle Street
BN1 2HD

Regency Square CA.
Built 1820s.
      33, 34 are Grade II listed1.
      ph42, Castle Inn was here by 1820 and may have dated from the late 18th century. It closed in 1921. The replacement building, now flats, was the Brighton and Hove branch of the Royal Air Force Association.
Census1841; Ke1845—
1HE 1380056
Catherine Vale, Woodingdean
BN2 6TZ
Catherine Vale was a right-wing Conservative councillor in Brighton for Queen's Park ward and later Moulsecoomb ward.  
Cattle Hill Misspelling of Castle Hill? However, there is no record of either.  
The Causeway Cul-de-sac off Queensway.  
Cavalry Barracks, Preston See Lewes Road.
Cavendish Mews
BN3 1AZ

Brunswick Town CA.
Off Ivy Place.
Cavendish Place
BN1 2HR, 2HS

Regency Square CA.
(Also called Cavendish Place West). Number of properties in 1822: 4. Mostly built c1829.
      1-2, Burleigh Court is Grade II listed1.
      3 is Grade II listed2. It was sold at auction in June 1874 for £2,5006.
      4 is Grade II listed5.
      6 was the residence 1862-1872 of the Irish actor and dramatist Dion Boucicault (1820-1890). Brighton Corporation plaque.
      8-9, The Curzon Hotel is by A H Wilds, built in 1829 and is Grade II listed4; the cast-iron gate piers are on the local B&H list.
      12 Novelist Horace Smith lived here. Brighton Corporation plaque.
      14 is Grade II listed 3.
Ba1822—
1HE 1380057
2HE 1380058
3HE 1380244
4HE 1380242
5HE 1380059
6Brighton Gazette, 25 June 1874:7a
Cavendish Place North From 25 Cheapside to Peel Street.
It was renamed Queen Street and lost by 1900 when the railway yards were extended eastward. Small houses.
PO1846–Fo1850
Cavendish Street
BN2 1RN

East Cliff CA.
Originally ran from St James's Street to Edward Street but now ends at Ardingly Street. Formerly known as Cumberland Street2. Number of properties in 1822: 64. Only two residences now remain.
      †?? Celia Bashford, victim in the first Brighton trunk murder in 1831 (see North Steine Row), was living here at the time with her sister.
      ph5, Britannia Inn was here by 1822. It was owned by Vallance & Catt from 1837. It closed c1926.
      †10 is where wheelwright William Wilton slit his wife's throat with a kitchen knife and smashed her head with a hammer on 9 July 1887.
      †23-25 collapsed just before 5:30am on 2 April 19231.
      ph37 was The Red House from 1854 to 1926.
Ba1822—
1Western Daily Press, 3 April 1923: 8.
2Marchant-Sicklemore map 1809
Cedars Gardens, Withdean
BN1 6YD, 6YS
Laid out on the southern half of the two-acre grounds of Miramichi in London Road by 1932, with Miramichi standing on the north side of the new road. The house and the adjacent former East Sussex County House Association for the Aged home were replaced by The Cedars sheltered housing development. The Miramichi lodge still bisects the entrance to Cedars Gardens. Identified as Cedars Avenue on the OS 1938 revision. Numbered 27 July 19391. Ke1932—
1ESRO DB/D/27/57
Cemetery Terrace In Lewes Road, opposite the cemetery. Fo1856–Pa1869
Centurion Place Opposite St Nicholas Church.
      Small private houses, built in 1833 by Cornelius Shrivell (d1837), who took the name from a biblical reference (Acts 10) about the devout Roman centurion Cornelius and the first conversion of gentiles to Christian belief2. They were renumbered as part of Church Street c1854.
      3 had an ice house 18541.
      4 had an ice house 1840-18441.
Census1851; Fo1856–Pa1871
1R G Martin: 'Ice Houses and the Commercial Ice Trade in Brighton' in Sussex Industrial History no 14: 21
2James Gray Collection
Centurion Road
BN1 3LN

West Hill CA.
The earliest properties were close to the former parish church and were constructed in the 1850s. They were renumbered 20 April 18811 and part renumbered 24 September 19312. Properties at the southern end were compoulsorily purchased by Brighton Corporation in 19646 and houses numbered up to 41 (odds) and 70 (evens) were demolished to make way for St Paul's Church of England Primary School, relocated from Little Russell Street to St Nicholas Road.
      ph11 was St Nicholas Shades c1874, renamed the Claverton Arms by 1880 and closed 1940.
      ph29-31 was the Black Lion [below], on the corner of New Dorset Street, opened in 1885 and closed in 1940.
      †35. A sheep pen was built here as late as 18925.
      †37. A cowshed was built here as late as 18713.
      55-69 are on the site of a former market garden, mainly glasshouses. This was replaced by a workshop, cleared in 1979.
      82, St Nicholas Court was St Nicholas Working Men's Club. The foundation stone was laid in June 1881 and the construction was by Lynn & Sons at a cost of £7904. The two principal rooms were each 25ft long and 14ft wide. From c1922 it was St Nicholas Drill Hall but was again St Nicholas Church Hall by the late 1930s. By 1930 it was Brighton Rifles and Royal Sussex Cyclists' Association Club. After World War II it was briefly an auction house, as evidenced by the painted sign. From 1948 until c1966 it was Brighton Film Studios. Now flats.
The Black Lion
Image: Black Lion [Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust]
Fo1848—
1ESRO DB/D/27/194
2ESRO DB/D/27/146
3ESRO DB/D/7/1079
4The Builder, 1881-06-18:779
5ESRO DB/D/7/2796
6ESRO DB/A/1/908
Centurion Terrace Continuation of Centurion Road.
      Small houses.
Fo1864–Fo1872
Chadborn Close, Whitehawk
BN2 5DH
Bristol Estate
      Seven- and three-storey blocks of social housing.
Ke1958—
Chailey Avenue, Rottingdean
BN2 7GH
Numbered 30 July 19481.
      53 was designed by Morgan Carn Partnership and built c2008.
Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/285
Chailey Road , North Moulsecoomb
BN1 9JE, 9JF
Built in the late 1920s. Most streets in the north of the area are named after Sussex villages. Pi1928—
Chain Pier Esplanade Incorporated in Madeira Drive by 1882. PO1846–Pa1881
Chalfont Drive, Hove
BN3 6QR
Ke1969
Chalk Lane Early name for Pankhurst Avenue, before housing development. OS1873-1875
Chalk Pit Island Top of Regent Hill. [1826] Ta1854 only
Chalkland Rise, Woodingdean
BN2 6RH, 6RJ
Named and numbered 29 May 1954, 1 June 1954, 25 March 1955 and 28 February 19571. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/320
Chalky Road, Mile Oak
BN41 2WF, 2WS
      Portslade Aldridge Community Academy was formerly Portslade Secondary Modern School for Girls. Ke1966—
Challoners
BN2 7DD
An ancient manor in the parish of Rottingdean. Thomas Challoner acquired Manor Farm and the house, now the oldest in Rottingdean, in 1456. All but the cellars were rebuilt in the 16th century and the facade dates from around 1805. The property was owned by the Beard family for almost three centuries.1 1Carder
Challoners Close, Rottingdean
BN2 7DG
See previous entry for derivation. Numbered 13 May 19571. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/349
Challoners Cottages, Rottingdean
BN2 7DU
See previous entry for derivation.
Challoners Mews, Rottingdean
BN2 7D&

Rottingdean CA.
Former agricultural buildings forming an L shape, dating from before 1839, not converted to residential use. On the local B&H list.  
Chalvington Close, Coldean
BN1 9GQ
Off Coldean Lane.
      A bronze age settlement was excavated here in 19971.
      Varley Park is a complex of halls of residence for the University of Brighton.
1Sussex Archaeological Collections vol 135:7-58, 1997
Champions Row, Hove
BN3 6AZ
Eight pairs of four-storey semi-detached houses on Wilbury Avenue.
Chanctonbury Road, Hove
BN3 6EL
Part of the Southdown Estate. Road laid out by George Burstow for J E Butt & Sons, planning application dated 17 September 18951. Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hill fort on the tree-topped Chanctonbury Hill in West Sussex.
      18 was the last residence of cinema pioneer George Albert Smith (1864-1959) until his death. Borough of Hove plaque.
Pi1897—
1ESRO DO/C/6/1351
Channel View Road, Wick Estate, Woodingdean
BN2 6DR, 6DS
The first houses were built here in 1929. Several of the early houses were built by A C Tomsett, who himself lived here1. Numbered 29 April 19482. Ke1947—
1Image
2 ESRO DB/D/27/283
Chantry Road, Hove Road laid out by George Burstow for John Ede Butt & Sons, planning application dated 18 November 19021. The location is unclear but probably an early name during planning for one of the roads south of Old Shoreham Road between Holland Road and Montefiore Road. Chantry Hill is in West Sussex. ESRO DO/C/6/2362
Chapel Mews, Hove
BN3 1AR

Brunswick Town CA.
Adjacent to St Andrew's Chapel in Waterloo Street. Census1871; Pa1892—
Chapel Place, Portslade
BN41 1DR
Takes its name from a Baptist Chapel formerly on the south-west corner with North Street. Now industrial.
      †Gothic Cottage. 1881.
Pa1890—
Chapel Street
BN1 1RQ, 1 SN
Number of properties in 1822: 27. Numbering is sequential from the north-east corner.
      20-23 and 25-26 appear to be faced with mathematical tiles.
      ph36 was the Royal George, which opened c1858 and became the Royal Oak Tap about a decade later but was gone by the mid 1890s.
Ba1822—
Chapel Terrace.
BN2 1HU

East Cliff CA.
Two cast-iron (gas) lampposts next to St George's Church are Grade II listed1 Pa1871—
1HE 1380245
Chapel Terrace Mews.
BN2 1HB

East Cliff CA.
Private road.
Charles Close, Hove
BN3 6WP
One of several adjacent roads in post war development off King George VI Avenue named after royalty: Charles, Prince of Wales (b.1948)—probably one of the first streets in the country to be named after him. Ke1958—
Charles Street
BN2 1TG

East Cliff CA.
Built in the 1780s; 19 houses by 1795; number of properties in 1822: 16. Numbering is sequential from the north-east corner, returning on the west side. The name commemorates the restoration monarch, Charles II, who made a famous escape from the beach nearby; the Charles Street Tap—at the southern end, on Marine Parade—was formerly called The Great Escape.
      ph1-2 (numbering is doubtful as 1, 2 and 2-3 are listed at various times) was The Ship in Distress from c1830 and became The Schooner Tavern by 1869. It was gone by the mid-1890s.
      ph 5 was The Eagle Tavern by 1854. It closed by 1926.
      8 is a flint-fronted cottage.
      9-12 Grade II listed1.
      11 is faced with mathematical tiles.
      20-23 Grade II listed2.
      21-27 are faced with mathematical tiles.
Co1799—
1HE 1380246
2HE 1380247
Charlotte Mews
BN2 1EF
Small gated development off St George's Road formed from the end of Millfield Cottages.  
Charlotte Street
BN2 1AG

East Cliff CA.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818) was the wife of George III.
      7 is Grade II listed1.
      16-17 are Grade II listed3.
      18-24 are Grade II listed4.
      The early electric light standard in front of 16-17, made by and marked BLEECO (Brighton Lighting and Electrical Engineering Company—see St Martin's Place)—is Grade II listed2.
      23-24 have painted mathematical tiles on the upper storeys.
Ba1822—
1HE 1380248
2HE 1380250
3HE 1380249
4HE 1380251
Chartfield, Hove
BN3 7RD
Cul-de-sac off Woodland Drive.  
Chartfield Way, Hove
BN3 7RB
Two detached houses on Woodland Drive.  
Chates Farm Court
BN2 9JS
Takes its name from the Chate family's dairy operation that began in 1858 on this 27-acre site, then owned by Edward Tilbury, and continued until as recently as 1934. A roadway from the dairy in Richmond Street emerged onto Albion Hill through an archway.
      34A Richmond Street is all that remains of the farm buildings.
 
Chatsworth Square  
Chatham Place
BN1, 3TN, 3TN

West Hill CA (south/east side).
B2122
      ph 1 is The Shakespeare's Head, which has been here since 1854.
      18 (??), now blocked from view at ground level from the Seven Dials junction, bore the name Selbourne House until repainted in 2013.
Ta1854—
Cheapside
BN1 4GD, 4GZ
At least 14 properties were beerhouses or pubs at some time. Numbering was sequential from the south-east corner, returning along the north side. It was mainly retail but almost all properties have now been removed or replaced and are industrial or commercial.
SOUTH SIDE (east to west)
—Here is London Road.
      †Senior Girls entrance to Margaret Hardy County Secondary School (see York Place) was here. Now replaced by the extension of Brighton Metropolitan College.
—Here is Pelham Street.
Red Cross Street was here.
—Here is White Cross Street.
      ph17 was The Cross Keys, owned by Tamplins, opened by 1832, upgraded by Clayton & Black in 1936 and closed in 1961.
Wood Street was here.
      ph18 was The Brighton Arms beer shop in 1854 and closed c1926.
      ph24 opened as The Navigator's Arms in 1839, became The North Star by 1843 and The Railway Arms from 1854. It closed in 1956.
      ph25 was The Engineers Inn from 1854 to 1884.
      30 is Ironworks.
—Here is Blackman Street.
—Here is Station Street.
NORTH SIDE (west to east)
Cavendish Place North, renamed Queen Street was here.
      ph30 (former numbering) was The Locomotive Inn/Tavern from 1871 to c1901.
      ph34 was The Orange Tree from 1881 to c1901.
—Here is Fleet Street.
—Here is Kingscote Way.
      ph42 was The Queen's Head, which Tamplin opened in 1854. It was remodelled by Clayton & Black in 1935 and demolished in the 1970s.
—Here is New England Street.
      43 and 30 Belmont Street were rebuilt in 1934, designed by E W Long1.
—Here is what remains of Belmont Street.
      ph43 was a beerhouse called The Belmont Arms from 1854 until 1926.
—Here is St Peter's Place which now leads to Providence Place , which formally came out here.
—Here is London Road.
Census1841; Br1845—
1ESRO DB/D/7/9537 (14 Dec 1933)
Chelsea Cottages, Portslade [1881]
Chelston Avenue, Hove
BN3 5SR
Cul-de-sac of semi-detached houses, with turning circle at southern end. Ke1932—
Cheltenham Place
BN1 4AB

North Laine CA.
Formerly part of the Atlingworth manor. John Harvey Ollney of Cheltenham owned land here in the 1810s-1830s1. Br1845—
1ACC 2409/2/899-906
Chelwood Close, Hollingbury
BN1 8FN
Cul-de-sac, built on the site of an ancient field system2. It was numbered 27 September 19511. Chelwood Gate and Chelwood Common are between Horsted Keynes and Wych Cross in East Sussex. Ke1949—
1ESRO DB/D/27/403

2ESRO MES23816
Chesham Place, Kemp Town
BN2 1FB

East Cliff CA.
Started c1855. Formerly known as Lyall Place. 'Other houses building' in Pa1871.
      1-6 are Grade II listed1.
      7-11 are Grade II listed2.
      12-21 are Grade II listed3.
Fo1856—
1HE 1380252
1HE 1380253
1HE 1380254
Chesham Road, Kemp Town
BN2 1NB

East Cliff CA.
(B2118) Built between 1855 and 1865—until which latter year it was called Bristol Road East—but 'other houses building' in Pa1871.
      ph1 was the Rose and Crown from 1864 to 1938.
      21 deed dated 27 September 18881.
      39 was a National School, also known as St Mark's School, when it opened in 1856. It was later a nautical training establishment, now converted to residential use.
Fo1864—
1ESRO amsgg/AMS6621/3/22
Chesham Street, Kemp Town
BN2 1NA, 1NG

East Cliff CA.
'Houses unoccupied' in 1881.
      9 Prince Pyotr Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist philosopher lived here 1910-1917. City of Brighton & Hove blue plaque.
Pa1881—
Chester Terrace
BN1 6GB, 6GD

Preston Park CA.
One property listed 'and other houses building' in Pa1883-1886. Renumbered 7 March 19011.
      43 was a childhood residence of Anson Dyer, England's leading animator between the wars.
      47 was the residence and first Brighton workshop of Alfred Darling, engineer and pioneer film equipment manufacturer in 1894 until he moved the workshop to 25 Ditchling Rise and his residence to 83 Ditchling Rise.
Pa1883—
1ESRO DB/D/27/90
Chesterfield Court At 48 Chesterfield Street.
      Small tenements.
Census1861; Ta1854–Pa1892
Chesterfield Street From 50 Edward Street to 65 Carlton Hill.
      A narrow street of poor housing built soon after 1800 and one of four such streets demolished in the mid 1890s for the construction of White Street and Blaker Street. There was a National School on the west side (1851) and St John's Ragged Schools (1871).
      Lodging houses for tramps. Four of them.
Ba1822–Pa1895
Chichester Close, Kemp Town
BN2 1FL

East Cliff CA.
Chichester Close, Hangleton
BN3 8ET
Cul-de-sac of mostly two-storey semi-detached houses off Hangleton Way.
Chichester Drive East, Saltdean
BN2 8LB, 8LD, 8LP, 8LU, 8LW
Named and numbered 1 September 1955; supplementary numbering 23 June 19661.
      30, 32, 34, 36 were designed by E William Palmer in 1934 in moderne style.
Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/324
Chichester Drive West, Saltdean
BN2 8SF, 8SH
Named and numbered 1 September 19551. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/146
Chichester Place
BN2 1FE, 1FF

East Cliff CA (except Cubitt Terrace).
Kemp Town CA (Cubitt Terrace, 1-5 consecutive).
Renumbered 8 August 18841. Ta1854:mdash;
1ESRO DB/D/27/195
Chichester Street Former name of Kingsbury Street until 1871. Br1845–Pa1841; Census1851
Chichester Terrace
BN2 1FG, 1FN

Kemp Town CA.
Built 1824-1855, designed by Wilds and Busby (??) for Thomas Read Kemp and built by Thomas Cubitt.
      Chichester House and 1-14 are Grade I listed1.
      Chichester House stood alone when first built in 1832 and opened as an academy for young gentlemen and is said to have been the model for Dr Blimber's Academy in Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son. It was the residence of novelist D L Murray from 1938 to 1944.
      1, Rendel Court is named after Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel of Hatchlands, who lived at 2-3 Clarendon Terrace.
      5 was the residence of composer Richard Addinsell from 1960 until his death. Plaque.
      9 was a residence of the 1st Marquess of Abergavenny (1889-1898)2.
      10-11 were an officers' convalescent home during WW1.
      11 was the first house in the terrace to be built by Thomas Cubitt, who stayed here during a visit to Brighton in 1843. It was the residence of Charles Robert Scrase Dickins (1895-1901)3.
      12 was built and initially owned by Henry Edward Kendall Jr.
      13 was built by William Hallett for Major-General Sir Frederick Ashworth, first chair of the Kemp Town Committee. Foreign secretary Lord Aberdeen stayed here in the winter of 1845-1846.
      14 was bought as a shell by 6th Duke of Devonshire in 1828, to which he added the adjoining 1 Lewes Crescent in 1829 and remained here until 1858. It was the residence in the 1870s and 1880s of Oswald Mosley 4th Baronet, and his son Oswald Mosley, 5th Bt. It then became the residence from 1896 to 1924 of Louise, the Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (1867-1931), daughter of Edward VII, who stayed here on a number of occasions; Edward VII convalesced here in 1908. Plaque to the Princess Royal.
Chichester Terrace is seen in Penny Points to Paradise (1950).
Br1845—
1HE 1380256
2Ke1905 et passim
3ESRO DB/D/27/320
Chichester Terrace Mews Back of Chichester Terrace. To1898–Pi1929
Chiddingly Close, Whitehawk
BN2 5GE
Two- and three-storey terraced social housing.  
Child's Yard Probably between Boyce's Street and Duke Street. Census1861
Chiltington Close, Saltdean
BN2 8HD
Numbered 1 April 1965; supplementary numbering 8 February 19721 Ke1969—
1ESRO DB/D/27/427
Chiltington Way, Saltdean
BN2 8HB
Numbered 1 April 1965; supplementary numbering 24 February 1966, 8 February 1972 and 9 August 19731. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/427
Chorley Avenue, Saltdean
BN2 8AQ
Numbered 5 October 19611. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/390
Chorley Road, Saltdean Listed as being numbered 15 August 19611 but no other evidence of its existence has been found. 1ESRO DB/D/27/391
Chrisdory Road, Mile Oak
BN41 2WQ
Semi-detached bungalows, some with a hint of moderne style. Ke1947—
Church Hill, Brighton Former name for what is now Dyke Road between Upper North Street and Seven Dials. The Workhouse was here. Br1846–; Census1851
Church Hill, Patcham
BN1 8YE, 8YU

Patcham CA.
Houses dating from the late 18th century onwards. Part of this and of Old London Road were formerly called Spring Street. (See also Vale Avenue.) Renumbered 25 October 19282.
      4,4a, 5 date from the mid 16th century. Grade II listed3.
      10 is a detached house that may predate the 18th century. Grade II listed4.
      13-21 and 22-22A are early 19th century, restored 1964. Grade II listed5.
      23 Bo-Peep and 24 Skayles are probably 18th century. Grade II listed6.
      28-29 were four cottages, converted into two. Grade II listed7.
      33-36 date originally from the early 19th century. Grade II listed12.
      All Saints Church, the Patcham parish church, dates partly from the 12th and 13th centuries. A wall painting of the Day of Judgment above the chancel is thought to be the oldest such in the country. There is a monument to Richard Shelley, an ancestor of the poet. Other monuments commemorate William Roe and his son William Thomas Roe (WTR), who successively owned Withdean manor, the latter's son William Dering Adair Roe (1816-1838), WTR's son-in-law Sir Challoner Ogle, his son Sir Chaloner Roe Majendie Ogle (1843-1861) and Benjamin Tillstone. The organ is dedicated to the memory of George V, who had stayed at Craigwell House, Bognor, from which it was brought, during his convalescence in 1929. In the churchyard, extended in 1949, is a war memorial and the grave of Daniel Scales, a smuggler who was shot dead by excisemen on 7 November 1796. The church is Grade II* listed8, the tombs and the walls Grade II9.
      Dovecot in the grounds of Patcham Court Farmhouse is Grade II listed10.
      Walls between the entrance to the churchyard and the village barn are Grade II listed1.
      Walls to Patcham Court farmhouse and the dovecot are Grade II listed11.
See also The Village Barn.
Pa1890—
1HE 1380382
2ESRO DB/D/27/68
3HE 1380257
4HE 1380258
5HE 1380259, 1380260
6HE 1380261
7HE 1380262
8HE 1380264
9HE 1380265
10HE 1380383
11HE 1380384
12HE 1380263
Church Place, Kemp Town
BN2 5JN, 5JU

Kemp Town CA.
Adjacent to St Mark's Church in Eastern Road.
      Numbered 21 August 19561.
Br1845—; Census1851
1ESRO DB/D/27/341
Church Road, Hove
BN3 2AB, 2AD, 2AE, 2AF, 2BA, 2BB, 2BD, 2BE, 2BF, 2BP, 2BU, 2BW, 2DJ, 2DL, 2FA

Brunswick Town CA (1-49 odd).
Cliftonville CA (110-146 even, 121-139 odd).
Old Hove CA (167-201 odd, 148-216 even, St Andrews Church and Hall).
The Avenues CA (2-108 even, 51-119 odd, including Planet House but excluding Hove Town Hall).
The Hove parish church of St Andrew's provides the name. The section between Norton Road and George Street was known as Church Street in the 1880s. Pa1873 lists no 3 'and houses and shops building' but lists 28 properties in Church Street. The road was widened in 1880 and posts at the east end were removed on 16 May 1901.

NORTH SIDE east to west
—Here is Holland Road.
—Here is Rochester Gardens.
      Palmeira Mansions was build for and by Jabez Reynolds in 1883-1884 to designs by H J Lanchester.
      7, Rochester Mansions, Palmeira Mansions and Palmeira Avenue Mansions are Grade II listed3.
      Walls in front of 7-19 were built c1884, restored 1991 and are Grade II listed1.
      9-15, Palmeira Mansions are Grade II listed3.
—Here is Palmeira Avenue.
      21-23, Palmeira Avenue Mansions and 25-31, Palmeira Mansions are Grade II listed4.
      33, Palmeira Mansions is Grade II* listed5.
—Here is Salisbury Road.
      Walls in front of 21-33 were built c1884, restored 1991 and are Grade II listed2.
      35 was the London & South West Bank, for which a new ground-floor frontage was designed by A C Udny in 19086. The address is incorporated in the elaborate decoration over the entrance in Salisbury Road.
—Here is Selbourne Road.
      52. The Hove Free Library was here.
—Here is Wilbury Road.
—Here is The Drive.
—Here is Tisbury Road.
      †Hove Town Hall, originally known as Brunswick Town Hall, had a memorial stone laid on 22 May 1880 by James Warnes Howlett, chairman of the Hove Commissioners. Two shields on either side of the entrance bore the arms of Sir Julian Goldsmid and Vere Fane Benett-Stanford. It opened in 1882 to a design by Alfred Waterhouse and built by J T Chappell. It included a police station with cells on the west side, a post office in the south-east corner and a garden on the north-east side. It was destroyed by fire on 9 January 1966. Brooker Hall in New Church Road became the temporary civic headquarters. It was replaced by a new building with its entrance in Norton Road in 1974.
Hove Town Hall Hove Town Hall
Images: The Builder, 23 April 1881
—Here is Norton Road.
      105-119 are a group of houses, offices and shops built c1870. Grade II listed7.
—Here is Hova Villas.
—Here is Ventnor Villas.
—Here is George Street.
      St Andrew's Church was designed in Norman style by George Basevi and built in 1833-1836, reconstructing a medieval church. It is Grade II* listed11. The lychgate was added in 1953. Sir George Everest is buried here.
      †Gas Works were opened by Brighton & Hove General Gas Company, in competition with the Brighton Gas Light and Coke Company at Black Rock, in 1832, designed by the company engineer John Grafton. John Constable painted a picture of Colliers Unloading on Hove Beach, looking towards Shoreham, Brighton (1824-1826), which is on display in the Royal Pavilion; the coal was for this site. Production ceased and the four gas holders were used to store gas from the Portslade Gas Works in Aldrington Basin until they too were taken out of use between the late 1980s and 1994. The site is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket and car park.
      Gas Cottage and Gas House. 1881.
      Tesco is on the site of Brighton & Hove Gas Works, built in 1832 and used as only a storage facility from 1871, when the Portslade gas works opened, until September 1994.
—Here is Miles Walk.
—Here is Connaught Road.
—Here is Sackville Road.

SOUTH SIDE east to west
—Here is Western Road.
      Floral Clock. See St John's Place.
      Church of St John the Baptist was designed by Edward and W G Habershon on land donated by Sir Isaac Goldsmid, opening in 1852. The north-east tower and spire were added c.1870 and are the highest in the city. The church is Grade II listed10.
—Here is First Avenue.
—Here is Second Avenue.
—Here is Grand Avenue.
      54-56 Albert Mansions
      56 was converted from a house to a shop in 187712.
—Here is Third Avenue.
—Here is Fourth Avenue.
      94-108 are a group of houses, offices and shops built c1870. Grade II listed6.
      110 Albion Inn was part of the manor of Hove Villa and Hove Ecclesia. It was surrendered to Jacob Wood by Matthew Martin in September 1810 and later came into the possession of George Gallard, who sold the premises in May 1871 for £1,577 to Richard Carey Weekes gent of Hurstpierpoint to pay debts owed to William John Williams of Brighton. Weekes still had the property in 18838.
—Here is Albany Villas.
—Here is Medina Villas.
—Here is Osborne Villas.
—Here is Seafield Road.
—Here is St Aubyns.
      156 (formerly numbered 144) was the chemist's and photographic shop of pioneer film-maker James Williamson from 1886 until September 1898 when he moved to 55 Western Road, Hove. Cinema 100 plaque.
—Here is St Aubyns.
—Here is Vallance Road.
      182 Hove Public Library was built after the council adopted the Public Libraries Act 1855 in November 1890. A news room opened in 1891, the lending library (with 3,489 volumes) in October 1892 and the reference library (1,226 volumes) in January 1894, soon after which electric lighting was installed. Grade II listed9.
      188-216 were known as Lewers Terrace.
—Here is HoveStreet.
      †Horse trough was on the western side of the junction with Hove Street.
Pa1873—
1HE 1204914
2HE 1280966
3HE 1187548
4HE 1187549
5HE 1204933
6ESRO DO/C/6/3128
7HE 1205279
8ESRO AMS5681/72
9HE 1398670
10HE 1187551
11HE 1205303
12ESRO DO/C/6/179 (Feb 1877)
Church Road, Portslade
BN41 1LA, 1LB, 1LU
      Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Denis, a Roman Catholic church close to St Andrew's, was designed by Fr Benedict Williamson and opened on 28 July 1912, funded by Mrs Catherine Broderick (see 15 Denmark Villas). A presbytery and school were added the following year but the school was refused recognition on several occasions until finally allowed in 1956. Meanwhile it was used as a community hall and in 1914 as a shelter for Flemish and Jewish refugees from the Low Countries1. The church was closed and demolished in 1992.
Portslade Fire Station       80 was formerly Portlade Fire Station [right], as indicated in terracotta over the fire engine door. Built in 1909.
      St Andrew's Church was designed by Brighton architect Edmund Scott for Rev F G Holbrooke, the Vicar of Portslade, to serve the Copperas Gap community at a cost of £1,541. It opened in 1864. From 1871 to 1874 the curate was Fr Richard William Enraght. One of the few Sussex churches never to have pew-rents. Part of the church was converted into a community centre for South Portslade, which opened on 18 June 2004. Most of the churchyard has been built over as part of the car park for Tesco and as a football pitch for St Andrew's CofE Primary School in Belfast Street.
      St Mary's Convent of the Sisters of Poor Servants was built as a manor house on a six-acre site in 1807. The lordship of the manor of Portslade was bought on 12 February 1904 by Miss Kathleen Concepta Nelson (d1947) on behalf of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, a Catholic order of nuns from St Mary's Convent at Roehampton, of which she had been a postulant and is buried in the private cemetery here. The sisters created a convent and convent school for young girls and added a laundry in 1911 to add work for the girls in addition to farm labouring. The manor house was sold the Emmaus charity in March 19972.
Pa1890—
1ESRO amsh/AMS5600/1
2ESRO DB/D/27/283
Church Road Place Twitten off First Avenue.  
Church Street, Brighton
BN1 1RB, 1RL, 1UE, 1UJ, 1US, 1UW, 3LF, 3LJ

Clifton Hill CA (40, 45-56 consecutive, 60, St Nicholas Church and grounds)
NorthLaine CA (rest garden, 2-11, 20-36, 66-70- 100-114 all consecutive).
Valley Gardens CA (North Gate House, Museum, Dome, Corn Exchange, 1 PH, 115-120).
West Hill CA (61-64 consecutively).
One of the oldest streets in Brighton, taking its name from the former parish church of St Nicholas, although it had initially been called North Back Side, soon changed to Spring Walk. It was given its present name by the Town Commissioners in 1792. Number of properties in 1794: 3415, in 1822: 758. Numbering is sequential from the south-east corner, returning along the north side.

SOUTH SIDE east to west
—Here is Old Steine.
      Statue of George IV is by Sir Francis Chantrey. It was originally unveiled on 9 October 1828 in the central gardens where the war memorial now stands and was moved to its present site on 14 March 1922. It is Grade II listed5.
      North Gate and the gatehouse of the Royal Pavilion estate were originally built c1774 and reworked in 1832 by Joseph Good for William IV, possibly to a design by Nash, as recorded above the main gate. Grade II* listed4. The adjacent red granite drinking fountain was donated in 1859 by William Blaber (1818-1903), early in his term as chairman and managing director of the Brighton Hove and Preston Waterworks Company.
      Brighton Museum and Art Gallery are the Prince Regent's former stables, designed by William Porden, built 1804. Joseph Good added stables for William IV and Queen Adelaide in 1831. Approved by the council in 1871, Philip Lockwood, the Borough Surveyor, adapted the building to cultural purposes as the Free Library and Museum at a cost of around £10,000 (estimate £6,000)18, which opened in 1873. 'Mr Lockwood proposes to construct on the ground floor an entrance hall from Church Street, two library and committee rooms, and a central gallery of 115 ft x 30ft, to be used as a public reading-room or for art collections, or a picture gallery, with, on the east side of this gallery, a subscription reading-room and library, a reference library, and a lavatory, and, on the west side, three rooms suitable either for library or museum purposes. On the upper floor there will be seven more rooms, including a lecture and museum room, with cross galleries. Altogether they occupy an area of 10,500 superficial feet on the ground floor11. The council voted 18 to six in favour of the scheme and the susequent public vestry meeting to confirm the proposal was 'more influentially attended than any of a parochial character which had been held in Brighton for many years'14. The contractor was Cheesman & Co, the ironwork and heating apparatus by Reed Brothers, the carving by H R Pinker of London, decoration by Mr Dury of Warwick10. Cheesman & Co also won the contract to make and fix the book cases at a price of £23512.Further alterations were carried out in 1894 and 1901-02. It included Brighton Public Library until the building was refurbished and re-opened in 2002. (Unfortunately, the replacement Jubilee Library in Jubilee Street did not open until 2005, after six decades of delays.) It is Grade II* listed.1
      Corn Exchange and Dome Concert Hall was built by William Porden as a riding school for the Prince of Wales in 1803-1808 and extended in 1831 by Joseph Good for the Office of Works. It was purchased by the Borough in 1850. Conversion to a theatre was carried out by borough surveyor Philip Lockwood in 1864-67. The corn market moved into the former riding school in the west wing here from the King and Queen in Marlborough Place on 1 October 1868. The sculpture of Ceres (Roman goddess of agriculture) by Robert Atkinson was installed in the tympanum above the entrance in 1934 when the buildings was refurbished by Atkinson, who also converted the former supper room into the Pavilion Theatre (now the Studio Theatre) in New Road. Grade I listed2. The Corn Exchange Entrance Wing is separately Grade II listed13.
      Pillar box outside the Corn Exchange bears the VR royal cipher.
—Here is New Road.
      ph 2, Regent House
      ph 3 was the Regent Inn from 1846 to 1917. It is now an ironmonger's shop.
      ph 4, William the Fourth was here from soon after the start of the king's reign in 1830.
—Here is Bond Street.
Model Dwellings plan       5 is Grade II listed1.
—Here is Jew Street.
      Model Dwellings is a five-storey block of 15 flats, built c1852 by the Brighton Association for the Improvement of the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The architect and surveyor was Frederick D Banister. As the plan [right] shows, each flat had a living room, two bedrooms, a scullery, wc, dust shaft, coal store and cupboard, a sink and a meat safe.
      ph 16 was The Gardeners Arms from 1854 to 1893.
—Here is King Street.
      20, 21, 22 are Grade II listed3.
—Here is Portland Street.
      20, 21, 22
      ph26-30 were demolished in the 1990s and the site, with land behind in Portland Street, was left vacant until 2023.
      ph 31, Earth and Stars (part) was the Windsor Castle from 1854, became the Windsor Tavern in 1869 and closed c1926. It was then a shop until it was incorporated into Earth and Stars (see Windsor Street).
—Here is Windsor Street.
—Here is Queen's Road.
      ph37-38 was the Star Brewery, which opened in 1858 and closed by 1875. It became Parsons & Son's tarpaulin and tent factory (1880-1897)
—Here is Zion Gardens.
      45, St Nicholas Lodge is on the site of the Ear and Throat Hospital, which opened in 1898.
      Church of St Nicholas of Myra was the first Brighton parish church. Built in the mid-14th century, with the addition of a chantry in the 15th century. It survived an attack by the French in 1514, when the town was burnt, but was seriously damaged in violent storms in November 1703 and August 1705. It was extensively rebuilt to a design by Richard Cromwell Carpenter in 1853 and re-opened in April 1854.The tiles were by Minton. It is Grade II* listed19 and a number of tombs in the churchyard are also listed at Grade II: those of Nicholas Tettersell20, Martha Gunn21, Anna Maria Crouch22, Amon Wilds23, Sake Deen Mahomed24 and Phoebe Hessell25. The churchyard and the pair of bollards on the Dyke Road side are on the B&H local list.
—Here is Dyke Road.

NORTH SIDE west to east
—Here is St Nicholas Road.
      ph 46 was The Black Lion from c1854 to 1935. It is now residential.
—Here is Mount Zion Place.
      ph 48 was Sir Robert Peel from c1854 to 1938. It is now residential.
      †Centurion Place was a terrace opposite the church.
      54 was where the first Infinity Foods shop opened in 1971. It had previously been an undertaker's (1901-1905) and a confectioner's shop (1908) but mostly residential.
      †55 Chesterfield Court was off here.
—Here is Kew Street.
—Here is Crown Gardens.
      ph 61 was The Morning Star from 1854 until 1935. It retains a distinctive corner entrance, now enclosed.
—Here is Queen's Road.
      Brighthelm Centre Rest Garden may have been a burial ground in the early 1700s. After burials ceased in the 1850s, this became a public garden in 1884. The gravestones were moved to the side in 1949. The garden is on the B&H local list.
      76 was the drill hall for 1st Volunteer Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, designed by Scott & Cawthorn in 1890. It was later a Royal Mail sorting office and is now an antiques warehouse. Grade II listed6.
—Here is Spring Gardens.
—Here was Bread Street.
      †Providence Calvinistic Independent Chapel was built in 1805 by Calvinistic followers of the evangelical William Huntington SS (1745-1813)—the SS stood for Soul (or Sinner) Saved—fired up by the revolutionary fervour of the Napoleonic era. Huntingdon was buried at Lewes. Like the neighbouring Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene it was demolished in 1965 and the congregation moved to West Hill Road.
      ph79 was The Spring Tavern from 1871 to 1916.
      ph87 opened as The Brewers Arms by 1822, was owned by Tamplins and became the Canterbury Hall Tavern from 1861 to 1872, when it reverted to its former name. It closed c1929, just as the electricity works also closed [Image 1 below].
      87a was the first works of Thomas Harrington Ltd from 1897.
      ph92 was the Royal Princess from c1864 to 1916.
—Here is Tichbourne Street.
      ph93 was the Cliftonville Arms from c1854 to 1899.
—Here is Gardner Street.
—Here is Regent Street.
      †Central National School was built by Stroud & Mew and opened by the National Society for Promoting Religous Education in 1829. It was demolished in 1971, when a letter ordering a stay of demolition was held up by a postal strike. The undeveloped site remained as part of a bare-earth NCP car park [Image 2 below]until the Jubilee Library was built over 30 years later (see Jubilee Street).
      †107-108, although listed, were demolished in 1972.
—Here is Jubilee Street.
      ph 109, Waggon and Horses was built in 1848 as a gymnasium but became a pub in 1852 when Frederick Mohamed, son of Sake Deen Mahomed (see Black Lion Street), moved the gym to Paston Place. It was modified in 1934 by Thomas Garrett.
      ph 112, The Black Horse opened by 1854
      115-116 was originally the Trinity Independent Presbyterian Chapel, also known in its early years as Mr Faithfull's Chapel, was designed by Thomas Cooper and opened c1825. It closed in 1896 and was partly replaced c1925 by the present building, which was originally the offices and showroom of the Brighton, Hove & Worthing Gas Company. The Brighton coat-of-arms is embossed above the entrance. It later became the music library of Brighton Library, then its local studies library and is now a restaurant. Brighton's coat of arms is on a plaque over the entrance. On the B&H local list.
      Prince Regent Swimming Complex opened on 22 April 1981, having cost £2.5m. The North Road swimming baths were previously on the site.
—Here is Barrack Yard.
      118 County Court House was designed by T C Sorby with a bas relief sculpture of the royal coat-of-arms by Mansel Bailey above the side archway. The builder was J T Chappell, whose bid price was £5,3959. It opened in 1869 and was used as a court until 1967, when it became a council storehouse. Following renovation the courtroom at the rear re-opened in 2007 as a lecture theatre. It is Grade II listed7.
      119-122 (formerly 111-114) were designed by John Hill in 187116
      121-122 (formerly 113-114) were rebuilt for Attree & Kenyon to a design by Thomas Simpson in 187617.
—Here is Marlborough Place.

1The Brewers Arms  2Dome Car Park

Image 1: Along King Street to the Brewers Arms appears dominated by the chimney of the North Road electricity works, 1929 view [RS James Gray Collection, cropped]; 2: Dome car park [adapted from RS James Gray Collection]
Br1832—
1HE 1380014
2HE 1380298
3HE 1380387
4HE 1380400
5HE 1380397
6HE 1380394
7HE 480500
8Ba1822
9Building News, 27 Dec 1867:vii
10Building News, 12 Sep 1873:296
11The Builder, 6 May 1871:353
12Building News, 18 Oct 1872:316
13HE 1380399
14The Builder, 1 Jul 1871:513
15Charles Wright: Brighton Ambulator, 1818:33-34.
16ESRO DB/D/7/1115 (12 Dec 1871)
17ESRO DB/D/7/1396 (17 Oct 1876)
18The Builder, 27 May 1871:409
19HE 1380453
20HE 1380390
21HE 1380389
22HE 1380392
23HE 1380454
24HE 1380393
25HE 1380391
Church Street, Hove The section of Church Road between Norton Road and George Street in the 1870-80s.
      Albion Inn. 1881.
1881
Church Street, Portslade
BN41 1LT
[1881]
Churchill Square
BN1 2ES, 2TA, 2TB, 2TD, 2TE, 2TF
Although planned as early as 1935, and part of the site was even cleared in 1938, with more demolition following in 1957-58, this was Brighton's major post war development, a traffic free shopping precinct with office buildings above. Among buildings cleared were 18 pubs, two breweries and two schools. Building started in 1966, the first shop was occupied in 1967 and the whole multi-level square was opened by 1971. It cost £9m. On the central square was a 'sculpture' of The Spirit of Brighton—assuming Brighton to be angular, rough, brutal and repellant1. After becoming even more bleak during the early 1990s (Tesco's closed in 1992), it was redeveloped at a cost of £90m between January 1996 and September 1998. The office block was demolished and the shopping mall covered. Near the Western Road frontage are two structures commissioned by Standard Life Investments, leaseholders of the site, called the Twins, designed by Charlie Hooper and unveiled on 4 September 1998. Unknown to virtually all Brightonians, the vertical panels are meant to emit sounds recorded around Brighton, stored electronically inside the sculptures and triggered according to the relative position of sunlight falling on them1. Commemorates Sir Winston S Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister 1940-45 and 1951-55 (see also Brunswick Road and Barrowfield Drive). 1National Recording Project
for Sussex: The Brighton
Sculpture Trail. University of
Brighton and the Public Monuments
and Sculpture Association
Chuters Gardens At 18 West Street.
      Small houses immediately south of St Paul's Church that were lost in the Churchill Square development.
See also Lower Clarence Street.
Census1841
Circus Court At 5 Circus Street.
      Thirteen cottages and stables building.
Ba1822
map
image
Circus Grove Off Circus Street.
      Small houses
Ta1854–Pa1873
map
Circus Mews Through an archway off Circus Street. map
Circus Parade
BN1 4GW
Off New England Road.  
Circus Street
BN2 9AL, 9AS
The circus was in Carlton Place (now Grand Parade) from 1808 to 1812, which dates the development of this another adjacent streets. Number of properties in 1822: 19.
      6 Circus Court was off here.
Ba1822—
map
image
Cissbury Road, Hove
BN3 6EN
Part of the Southdown Estate. The road was laid out in 1895 by George Burstow for J E Butt & Sons1.
      E Cornwall & Son built 13 houses2; T H Scutt built 18 houses3 and R W Pollard built five on the east side4.
Pi1897—
1ESRO DO/C/6/1351 (17 Sep 1895)
2ESRO DO/C/6/1511 (8 Oct 1896), /2019 (22 Feb 1900)
3ESRO DO/C/6/1512 (13 Oct 1896), /1528 (7 Dec 1897), /1868 (16 Jan 1899)
4ESRO DO/C/6/1597 (1 Jun 1897)
City Road This appears to be the earliest name for Upper Bedford Street. Ba1822
Claremont Place From 26 Sussex Street (Morley Street) to 24 Richmond Street (Richmond Parade).
      A wall across Richmond Street between Claremont Place and Dinapore Terrace was built to stop runaway vehicles on the 1:5 incline. The road was lost in the development of the high-rise flats in Ashton Rise: Saxonbury stands on the line of the former street.
Fo1848–Ke1960; Census1851
Claremont Row From Sussex Street to Richmond Street..
      Small tenements.
      †Schools were the subject of an architctural competitions that attracted eight entries and was won by Banister Fletcher and J S Nightingale. The estimated cost was £4,315.1
      ph24 was The Forester & Shepherd from 1874 to 1898.
Census1871; Pa1871–Ke1960
1The Builder, 29 Jun 1872: 510
Claremont Street ' 'Houses now building' in Pa1867. The road was lost in the development of the high-rise flats in Ashton Rise: Courtlands stands on the line of the former street. Pa1867–Ke1960
Clarence Cottages   Census1861
Clarence Gardens
BN1 2EG

Regency Square CA.
Pedestrian.
      ph 1-2, Pull & Pump was opened by Tamplin in 1889 as The Castle [Inn] Shades and refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1937.
      Brighton Little Theatre was formerly Elim Clarence Baptist Chapel, built in 1830 and closed for worship in 1947.
[1826]
Clarence Mews From 35 Castle Square.
      Built 1820s.
1856
Clarence Mews, Kemp Town Opposite St Mark's Church, Eastern Raod.
      A petrol station and car wash now occupies the site.
Census1851; Fo1856–To1907
Clarence Place From 26 Sussex Street to 24 Richmond Street.
      Small tenements. Number of properties in 1822: 22.
Ba1822–To1906
Clarence Square
BN1 2ED

Regency Square CA (1-20 and 21-47 consecutive).
The north side was built in the early 1800s, the south side in the mid 1840s. Prince William (1765-1837), third son of George III, was created 1st Duke of Clarence and St Andrews in 1789 and was known by that title until he acceeded to the throne as William IV in 1830.
      19 was the residence of James Charnock Simpson in 1841 and newspaper proprietor Nathan Cohen in 1851.
      20 was the residence of builder George Lynn 1851-1871.
      40-45 were the backs of properties in Western Road1.
      ph 47, Prince of Wales was opened by Tamplin in 1843 and refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1943.
      The enclosure was bought by Brighton Borough Council from John Richard Abbey on 19 November 19522.
Br1845—
1Fo1852
2ESRO BH/G/2/249
Clarence Street, Brighton Built 1820s, it was lost in the Churchill Square development. See also Lower Clarence Street. Ba1826–Ke1973
Clarence Street, Portslade       Clarence Hotel/Inn. 1871-1881. Census1871
Clarence Yard
BN1 1EP, 1GT
At 19 Poplar Place. Ta1854—
Clarendon Place, Kemp Town
BN2 1JD

East Cliff CA.
Formerly College Street.
      8, Clarendon Lodge is Grade II listed1.
Fo1864—
1HE 1380401
Clarendon Place, Portslade
BN41 1BE, 1BF, 1DJ/td>
Formerly small terraces, then industrial but returning to residential.
      5, Quay View is a block of 104 apartments on the site of the Belgrave Day Centre. Comprising 50 one-bederoom, 39 two-bedroom, four three-bredrooom and 11 studio flats, it was built 2021-2023 as part of the Homes for Brighton & Hove joint project between the city council and Hyde Housing, a mixture of low-rent social and share ownership housing.
Census1871; Pa1890—
Clarendon Road, Hove
BN3 3WQ, 3WR, 3WS, 3WW, 3WZ
Terraced housing, built 1877-1878. The north side was demolished and replaced as the £2m Hove Municipal Borough Council's Conway Redevelopment Scheme: a row of 10-storey blocks, designed by Morgan Carn, and officially opened on 13 July 1967. They were reclad in 2016.
      Conway Court. Residential stage 1 of the scheme, designed by D J Howe and built by Rice & Son in 1965-1967, with 72 dwellings. The foundation stone was laid by Donald J Edwards, the mayor of Hove, on 2 April 1966.
      Clarendon House. Residential Stage 2 of the scheme, built by Rice & Son, with 57 dwellings.
      12, Goldstone House. Residential stage 3 of the scheme, built by Rice & Son in 1967-1969, with 57 dwellings.
      Ellen House. Residential stage 4 of the scheme, built by Rice & Son 1967-1969, with 57 dwellings.
      36, Livingstone House. Residential stage 5 of the scheme, built 1968-1970 by H J Paris with 54 dwellings.
Pa1877—
Clarendon Terrace
BN2 1FD

East Cliff CA
In Marine Parade.
      1-6 were built 1856-59 by the Cheesmans, possibly designed by George Cheesman Jr, and named in honour of Lord Clarendon, the Foreign Secretary (1853-1859). The developer was William Percival Boxall of Belle Vue Hall (see also Percival Terrace) on land bought from Thomas Cubitt. Grade II listed1.
      2-3 was a residence of Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel of Hatchlands from 1903 until his death in 1913.
Fo1856—
1HE 1380402
Clarendon Villas, Hove
BN3 3RA, 3RB, 3RD, 3RE
Extended to the east of Goldstone Villas before housing was fully developed in the area.
      8 Dickens' illustrator Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne, lived and died here.
      56 indenture dated April 1879 from George Gallard to John Buckler1.
      Clarendon Centre (Church of Christ the King, CCK) was originally a non-denominational mission opened in 1885. It has had its current name since 1961 but is used now as an administrative centre, services being held at the premises in New England Street.
1881
1ESRO amsgg/AMS6621/3/32
Clarendon Villas, Portslade   Pa1881—
Clarendon Villas Road, Hove 'Houses building' in Pa1882. Former name until 1889 of Bertram Road, which became Portland Road in 1894.
      Aldrington Hotel was the first building.
Pa1882–Pa1891
Clarke Avenue, Hove
BN3 8GA, 8GD, 8GG
  Ke1949—
Clarkson Place After 42 Essex Street, out of Lavender Street..
      Artisan houses.
Ke1846–Pa1871
Clayton Road
BN2 9PZ
Inter-war years pebbledash council housing development named after local Sussex villages (cf, Glynde Road). No properties listed in Pi1925. Pi1925—
Clayton Way, Hangleton
BN3 8GE
One of a group of adjoining roads named after Sussex villages. Ke1949—
Clermont Estate Developed by Alderman Daniel Friend, started in 1866. Clermont was a large house on the south side of Cumberland Road until the early 1880s. Comprises Clermont Road, Clermont Terrace, Cumberland Road and Lauriston Road.  
Clermont Road
BN1 6SG, 6SS

Preston Park CA.
Part of the Clermont estate. The bus shelter at the junction with London Road was extra large to accommodate passengers travelling on north from Preston Park railway station—no longer there and the stop is some distance from the junction but does have a seat.
      18, now a convenience store, was formerly a bakery and still has the ovens in the basement.
      19 was a clock-making and repair shop from 1893 until c2016.
      Preston Park Station. Opened as Preston station on 1 November 1869 and was renamed Preston Park in July 1879, four years prior to the creation of the public park in London Road. The cost of construction was split between the London Brighton & South Coast Railway and Daniel Friend, developer of the Clermont estate. The street-level building north of the entrance to the pedestrian tunnel was originally a post and telegraph office.
Pa1871—
Clermont Terrace, Preston
BN1 6SH, 6SJ, 6SU

Preston Park CA.
Part of the Clermont estate, developed by Daniel Friend, started in 1866.
      Cherrington House. 1881.
      Wall postbox outside 27 bears the VR royal cipher.
      Clermont United Reform Church, formerly a Congregational church, was designed by J G Gibbins. The foundation stone is dated 4 April 1877 and the church opened on 18 September 1877. The land was a gift from Daniel Friend and Alderman Henry Abbey (?).
Pa1871—
Clevedon Place Former name of Upper Sudeley Street. 'Other houses building' in Pa1871.
      4-6 was the Sussex County Hospital Nurses' Institution.
Pa1871–To1899
Cleveland Road
BN1 6FF, 6FG

Preston Park .
Cleveland Cottage and 'Other houses unoccupied' in Pa1892..
      ph 27a, Cleveland Arms was opened by Tamplin in 1843 and refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1943. It was added to the B&H Local list in 2015.
Pa1892—
Cliff, The, Black Rock
BN2 5RE, 5RF
Numbered 30 August 1938, renumbered 9 July 19511. Several houses on the north side front onto Roedean Road.
      40, White Lodge was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Victoria Sackville-West (1862-1936).
Pi1912—
1ESRO DB/D/27/45
Cliff Approach, Black Rock
BN2 5RB
Off Roedean Road.
      Numbered 11 February 19541.
      1 was built 2016
Ke1956—
ESRO DB/D/27/319
Cliff Butts Formerly the section of the seafront close to the present day Cannon Place.  
Cliff Road, Roedean
BN2 5RD
Numbered 18 July 19441. Pi1928—
1ESRO DB/D/27/65
CLIFTON Although not an area as such (except as part of the informal Clifton, Montpelier, Powis area), several streets north of Western Road have this name, which then recurs in the western part of Brighton and in Cliftonville, the development of the eastern part of Hove. The derivation is obscure. [The Clifton area in Bristol was 'Clistone' in Domesday Book, meaning hillside settlement, which would apply here too.]  
Clifton Gardens See Clifton Terrace.
Clifton Hill
BN1 3EN, 3HL, 3HQ

Clifton Hill CA.
Built mid 1840s along a 'carriage road to [West] Blatchington'. The former hospital car park, donated in 1937, was on the site of William Vine's mill (1810-1850). The north-western section, west of Vernon Gardens/Terrace, was renamed as Windlesham Avenue in 19071. The street was renumbered 3 November 19532; numbering is sequential from the north-east corner, returning along the south-west side.
      1-2 are surmounted by an Italianate tower and date from c1850. Grade II listed3.
      ph 6, Crescent Inn opened in 1846 and was a Tamplin house. It was refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1929.
—Here is Clifton Road.
      7 is Grade II listed4. The deeds are dated 29 March 18455
      10-11 were built c1840 and are Grade II listed6.
—Here is Clifton Mews.
—Here is Dyke Road.
      23, Coach House dates from 1852. It was built for Joseph Rogers Browne of Aberdeen Lodge (5 Powis Villas) and is a rare survival of its type. Designed to house two carriages and three horses, it was later a motor car repair shop and in 1937 became a storage facility for the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children. It is Grade II listed7 in 2005.
—Here is Powis Villas.
      24-25 were built c1840 and are Grade II listed8.
—Here is Powis Road.
—Here is St Michael's Place.
Clifton Hill is a location used in Wimbledon (2004).
Other buildings listed 1851: Crescent Cottage; Hope's Cottage; Innesfall Villa; Langley Villa; Lennox Cottage; Lone Cottage; Milford Cottage; Reed's Rest; Upton Villa
Fo1848—
1ESRO DB/D/27/134
2ESRO DB/D/27/315
3HE: 1380403
4HE: 1380404
5Steve Myall: 'Clifton Hill'. CMPCA online
6HE: 1380405
7HE: 1391344
8HE: 1380406
Clifton Mews
BN1 3HR

Clifton Hill CA.
Built on the site of the livery stables behind the Crescent Inn on the corner of Clifton Hill and Clifton Road. Now a gated residential development.
Clifton Place
BN1 3FN

Clifton Hill CA.
Built 1848-1853.
      13 Garden House is on the site of Garden House, a gothic villa built c1850 and demolished 1964. The former rectory of St Nicholas of Myra Church, the last owner was film actor Clive Brook (Clifford Clive Hardman Brook, 1887-1974).
Census1851; Fo1852—
Clifton Road
BN1 3HN, 3HP

Clifton Hill CA.
Built mid 1840s. Originally running north to Buckingham Place, the section north of Dyke Road was renamed and renumbered as Compton Avenue 16 Jan 18901; renumbered 6 July 19052.
      1-4 are Grade II listed3.
      1 was a residence of Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes (1796-1869).
      7-8 are Grade II listed4.
      9-10 are Grade II listed5.
      8 was built c1830 Grade II listed6.
      17 was the residence of Sara Forbes Bonetta.
      18-25 were designed by Denman & Matthew c1907.
      26 is Grade II listed7.
      †Dials Congregational Church, on the corner of Dyke Road, was designed by local architect Thomas Simpson to seat about 1,000. The foundation stone was laid on 1 June 1870 and the church opened just over a year later. The eventual cost was estimates at around £8,000=£9,000. Its 130-foot tower was a prominent local landmark. It was sold in 1969 and demolished three years later. The Homelees sheltered housing occupies the site (see Dyke Road).
      Other houses listed 1851: Bilham Villa; Eagle Villa; Holland House; Sandford Lodge; Southdown Villa.
PO1846—; Census1851
1ESRO DB/D/27/212
2ESRO DB/D/27/128
3HE 1380407
4HE 1380408
5HE 1380409
6HE 1380407
7HE 1380410
Clifton Road North Former name of Clifton Street. Census1851
Clifton Street
BN1 3PG, 3PH

West Hill CA.
Formerly called Clifton Road North. It was renumbered in 1872.
      1-23 are Grade II listed1.
      5 was the residence of borough surveyor Philip Lockwood in 1858.
      32 (formerly 29).
Ta1854—
1HE 1380411
Clifton Street Passage
BN1 3PU

West Hill CA.
A twitten running behind the houses on the east side of Clifton Street with steps from Guildford Road to Terminus Road.
      house was designed by W W Eldrdige in 18711.
Ke1973—
1ESRO DB/D/7/1063 (28 Feb 1871)
Clifton Terrace
BN1 3HA, 3HB

Clifton Hill CA.
Completed in 1847. On the south side the private gardens for the residents are on the site of Clifton Windmill, which was moved in 1837 to Windmill Street. The boundary wall to Clifton Gardens is Grade II listed1. There is a tile-and-iron-frame name plate on the retaining wall in front of no 30.
      1-2 were built 1846 by G W Sawyer and Richard Edwards, local builders; the latter lived in no 1 for some years while building the rest of the terrace3.
      4 sold for £900 in April 19065.
      5 was the residence of Robin Maugham from 1976 to 1981.
      8 was the residence of John Leopold Denman.
      12 sold for £1,200 in April 19065.
      17 sold for £870 in April 19065. It was the residence of playwright and television personality Alan Melville from 1951 to 1973 (see also 28 Victoria Street).
      20 sold for £850 in April 19066. It was the residence from 1930 to 1937 of American-born playwright and novelist Edward Knoblock (1874-1945), who wrote Kismet.
      ph 25 opened by 1848 as the Clifton Arms and was converted to residential c1926. It is Grade II listed2.
      27-31 are Grade II listed6.
      32-34 are Grade II listed7.
Br1846—
1HE 1380415
2HE 1380412
3Steve Myall: 'Clifton Hill'. CMPCA online
5The Builder, 1906-04-28:478
image of 15
6HE 1380413
7HE 1380414
CLIFTONVILLE The suburban development south of Hove station, began in the 1850s. The name may come from a cottage that stood towards the southern end of the area, which may in turn mark its proximity to the coastal cliffs. Charles Fleet described how 'Cliftonville sprang into existence with the rapidity of a Trans-atlantic town. House after house, and villa after villa seemed to rise by magic.'1 The Illustrated Times reported on 'the new suburb of Brighton, filled with new little houses, very pretty and clean to look at, and awfully genteel little houses'2. After an independent existence, it was incorporated into Hove in 1874. 1Fleet (1858)
2The Illustrated Times, February 1859
Cliftonville CA Conservation area designated in 1969 and extended in 1985; 1.64ha, 4.05 acres. Stretches from Holy Trinity Church on Eaton Road to the seafront. Character statement
map
Cliftonville Station Former name (October 1865-July 1879) for Hove Station. Cliftonville railway spur line, linking Hove with the main London line, was opened July 1879.  
Cliveden Court
BN1 6UB
Private road serving flats off London Road.  
Clover Way, Portslade
BN41 2ET
Cul-de-sac of three two-storey semi-detached houses and two terraces of three houses off Henge Way with pedestrian access to Cornford Close and Downsview Road.
Clovers End, Hollingbury

BN1 8PJ
Cul-de-sac of three two-storey semi-detached houses off Old Boat Walk.
Clyde Road
BN1 4NN, 4NP
Two- and three-storey terraced housing. Mostly tree-lined.
      1-11 (odd) were built by Marshall in 18746.
      2-66 (even) and 53-59 (odd) were initially designed by C O Blaber in 1874-76 under several planning applications1, although 30-36, 40 and 66 appear to have been reassigned to other architects.
      13-17 (odd) were designed by Allen Anscombe in 18767.
      21, 23, 27, 29 were designed by H J Lanchester in 18753.
      33-49 (odd) were built by F Fuller5.
      51 was designed by H J Lanchester in 1879
      68-78 were designed by Samuel Denman in 18782.
Pa1877—
1ESRO DB/D/7/1204,1216, 1226, 1237, 1262, 1283, [1285, 1286,] 1324, 1336, 1337
2ESRO DB/D/7/1608 (2 Oct 1878)
3ESRO DB/D/7/1311 (2 Oct 1875), 1313 (4 Oct 1875)
4ESRO DB/D/7/1638 (10 Feb 1879)
5ESRO DB/D/7/1422 (19 Feb 1877), 1424 (27 Feb 1877)
6ESRO DB/D/7/1241 (24 Nov 1874)
7ESRO DB/D/7/1338 (28 Feb 1876)
Coalbrook Road Originally the approach to Kemp Town railway station, next to which were the offices of coal merchants, demolished in 1987 after years of decay. However, the road appears on an 1836 map as Colbrook Row, before the railway was built. Sometimes misspelt as Colebrook Road [qv]. Freshfield Way is parallel but further north.. Pa1881–Ke1973
Cobden Place Former name of the southern section of Prestonville Road. 'Houses in course of erection' in Ta1854. Ta1854–Pa1871
Cobden Road
BN2 9TJ, 9TL
One of several streets named after Victorian philosophers and reformers (cf, Bentham Road, Carlyle Street). Richard Cobden (1804-1865), advocate of free trade and member of parliament, was the son of a Sussex farmer. 'Arranged for building' in Fo1856. Consecutive numbering: northwards on the west side, returning on the east side.
      19 had a cowshed added in 18771.
      25-26 were built by Bowles in 18722.
      ph 45-46, The Cobden Arms was opened by Tamplin c1872 and, according to the date on the façade, rebult in 1884. It was refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1940.
      54-57 were built by John Dallimore in 18793.
      77 Slipper Baths were opened on the corner of Islingword Road by the mayor of Brighton, Sir Joseph Ewart, in April 1894. The building bears the date 1893 above the entrance. When the baths closed in 1976, the building became the Hanover Community Centre until 1982, then became a resource centre and was converted into flats in 1985-86.
Fo1856—
1ESRO DB/D/7/1412 (2 Jan 1877)
2ESRO DB/D/7/1132 (20 Apr 1872)
3ESRO DB/D/7/1729 (1 Sep 1879)
Cobham Place Off Dyke Road but the location is unknown. There is a reference to 25 Cobham Place in a bankruptcy case against the marvellously-named Pringle Shortreed in 18721. 1London Gazette
Cobton Drive, Hove
BN3 6WE, 6WF
Contraction of the name of the builder, Cook Brighton Ltd (of 160 Church Road)1. The road was laid out in 1955 and built up thereafter; no properties listed in Ke1956. Ke1956—
1A selection of Notes ...
including a History of
Hove Street Names...

Brighton & Hove Libraries, nd.
Codrington Place Named after Admiral Sir Edward Codrington. Numbered 6 October 19041 and renumbered 22 December 19102. Br1846–To1903
1ESRO DB/D/27/159
2ESRO DB/D/27/238
Coes Farm and cottages at foot of Race Hill A census location close to the southern end of (now) Freshfield Road. Census1861
Colbourne Avenue, Moulescoomb
BN2 4GE
James Colbourne was mayor of Brighton in 1905-06. Numbered 19221.
      St Andrew's Church. Designed by L K Hett, built 1932-34.
Ke1924—
1ESRO DB/D/27/260
Colbourne Road, Hove
BN3 1TA, 1TB
Under construction from 1909. Pi1909—
Colbrook Row An early name for Coalbrook Road. [1836-1841]
Coldean A sparcely populated agricultural area from the 18th century in Falmer parish. The Hiker's Rest PH (1937) was an early development. The Parkside estate was initially laid out in 1934 as a private development and completed in 1948. Brighton Borough Corporation bought the rest of the land in 1950 and used the Brighton Extension Act 1951 to add Coldean with most of Falmer and Stanmer from 1 April 1952. Map of Parkside Estate (1946)
Coldean Lane, Coldean
BN1 9GD, 9GE, 9GR, 9GS
      1-28 were proposed by C W Munday and designed by architects Thompson & Walker in 1935. The plan is here.
      Hiker's Rest PH was designed by John Leopold Denman and built in 1937. It closed c2015 and reopened in 2018 as The Ruby.
      St Mary Magdalene was converted in 1955 from a flint stone barn.
Ke1936—
Colebrook Cottages
BN1 5JH
A back development behind 9 and 11 Colebrook Road.  
Colebrook Road, Withdean
BN1 5JH
Colebrook was one of the forenames of Elizabeth Caroline Colebrook Gordon Curwen (née Cameron), who married into the family that owned the Withdean land. (There is also Colebrook Road off Albion Street in Southwick and see also Coalbrook Road.) Laid out by Lawrence Graham & Co before 19281, although development began before the First World War; numbered 23 May 19292.
      9 (Airdrie, then Eaves Cottage) was built for T W Bassett, originally designed in 1917 and amended in 1921, by William H Overton3.
Pi1928—
1ESRO DB/D/57/878-4
2ESRO DB/D/27/150
3ESRO DB/D/57/45-3 and DB/D/57/45-4
Colebrook Row At 42 Upper Bedford Street.
      Small houses.
Census1851–1861; Fo1856–Pa1867
Coleman Avenue, Hove
BN3 5NB, 5ND
Ke1931—
Coleman Street
BN2 9SQ
Numbering is consecutive on the north-west side from Southover Street, returning on the south-east side.
      19-33 were built by Bunting in 18701.
Fo1861—
1ESRO DB/D/7/1012 (4 Jul 1870); /1025 (13 Sep 1870)
Coleridge Street, Hove
BN3 5AA, 5AB, 5AD
In the Poets' Corner district, this street is named after poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). 'Houses building' in Pa1882; mainly developed in 1894, when consecutively numbered plots were given alternating house numbers. Most houses were designed by Thomas Lainson & Sons.
      23, now an office and residential block, is on the site of a Roman Catholic School (mixed), that closed c1950.
Pa1882—
Colgate Close, Whitehawk
BN2 5QP
Numbered 18 August 19831 1ESRO DB/D/27/445
College CA Conservation area, designated 1988; 7.53ha, 18.60 acres. The only one of the 34 Conservation Areas without a character statement. map
College Close, Portslade
BN41 2WT
Cul-de-sac of one pair of semi-detached houses off Chalky Road.
College Gardens
BN2 1HP

East Cliff CA.
From College Place to St George's Road. Fo1850—
College Mews
BN2 1JA

East Cliff CA.
College Place
BN2 1HN

East Cliff CA.
Originally called Bury Street.
      6, 7 and the lamppost outside are Grade II listed1.
      ph 12-13, The Ginger Dog opened as The Wellington Hotel by 1854 and acquired its present name by 2012.
      ph 29 was called the Lewes Arms when it opened by 1854 but the name had changed to College Arms by 1859. It is not listed in directories beyond 1862.
      ph 42 was The Dolphin from c1854 to 1913.
Fo1850—
1HE 1380416, 1380417
College Road, Kemp Town
BN2 1JA, 1JB

East Cliff CA.
Adjacent to Brighton College. Mainly built 1880s. [The main entrance to the college was built in its present position in 1886.] Numbered consecutively from the south-east corner, returning down the north-west side on 21 August 18781.
      1, the former post office (now Brighton College Bursary), opened in 1887. It is Grade II listed2.
      18-21 and three other houses were built by Griffiths in 1873 and 18773.
      19 was the residence of actress Patricia Hayes from 1946 to c1953.
Census1851; Ta1854—
1ESRO DB/D/27/250
2HE 1380418
3ESRO DB/D/7/1160 (14 May 1873); /1446 (24 Apr 1877)
College Street
BN1 1JG

East Cliff CA.
Initially called College Road when development was planned but renamed by the time building began around 1854. The section west of College Road was then called Lower College Street, when what is now Clarendon Place was called College Street. It was renumbered in 1878. Ta1854—
College Terrace Former name of the terrace at 22 St George's Road. Fo1850–Fo1862
College Terrace
BN2 0EE, 0EX

College CA (1-17 consecutive).
Initially called Gordon Terrace when laid out. Five-storey houses in red brick with terracotta balustrades around the basement areas. Confusingly there are two planning applications, the earlier1 in 1880 for 17 houses, the other in 1883 for 18 houses by J T Chappell2, which was built as 17 houses, no 10 counting as two.
      1 was the vicarage for St Matthew's Church in Sutherland Road, with an extension on the west side by J G Gibbins3..
      10 is double-fronted and was subject of a separate planning application by J T Chappell for A A Williams4.
Pa1882—
1ESRO DB/D/1915 (6 Oct 1880)
2ESRO DB/D/2253 (7 Jun 1883>
3ESRO DB/D/2416 (18 Mar 1886)
4ESRO DB/D/2293 (17 Jan 1884)
Compton Avenue
BN1 3PN, 3PP, 3PS, 3PT

West Hill CA.
Named from Compton Terrace and part of Clifton Road and numbered 16 January 18901.
      †All Saints Church was built 1848-1853 by George Cheesman and opened in 1853, a commission of the Vicar of Brighton Rev H M Wagner for architect R C Carpenter. Money for building the tower came from the residuary estate of George Baldwin Woodruff2. Having suffered bomb damage during World War II, it closed in 1957 and was demolished, replaced by
      Buckingham Lodge.
Compton Avenue is a location used in Heathen (2009).
Pa1891—
1ESRO DB/D/27/212
2ESRO PAR387/9/1/7
Compton Road
BN1 5AL, 5AN
Branson applied for Brighton Borough Council approval for four houses, to be designed/built by Loader & Long, on 16 September 18971 and 16 more on 16 December 18972. Plans to build 100 houses here and in adjacent Inwood Crescent were submitted on 21 February 1901 by London Brighton & South Coast Railway Company3 and nine more here on 3 April 19024. Renumbered 30 October 19025. Tiled street name plate survives on no 2.
      24-26, Downsview) was built on the site where a bomb dropped during WW2.
Pi1896—
1ESRO DB/D/7/4590
2ESRO DB/D/7/4637
3ESRO DB/D/7/5281
4ESRO DB/D/7/5469
5ESRO DB/D/27/97
Compton Terrace Still under construction 1881. Renumbered 21 June 18881; renamed as Compton Avenue 16 January 18902. Fo1856–Pa1890
1ESRO DB/D/27/211
2ESRO DB/D/27/212
Coney Hill Downland hill at Waterhall, populated by rabbits (coneys).  
Connaught Road, Hove
BN3 3BW

Old Hove CA.
      Brooker Hall. 1881, formerly Connaught Road Council Schools (the name is carved in terracotta over the doorway), was built in 1884 by John T Chappell, designed for Hove School Board by Thomas Simpson. The site cost £2,600 and the building £9,580. Extended c1920 and late 20th century. The school closed 1984. Grade II listed1.
      Cut is the obelisk-like sculpture at the southern end. It was designed by Ekkehard Altenburger in Kilkenny limestone on a commission from Karis Developments and unveiled by the mayor, Cllr Pat Drake, in 2004.
Census1881; Pa1885—
1HE 1393480
Connaught Street, Hove [1881]
Connaught Terrace, Hove
BN3 3YW
Pa1878—
Connell Drive, Woodingdean
BN2 6RT
Circular road, numbered 9 August 19681. No properties listed in Ke1969 Ke1969—
1ESRO DB/D/27/440
Conway Place, Cliftonville
BN3 3DW
Formerly called Hove Drove Place. Pa1877—
Conway Street, Hove
BN3, 3LA, 3LB, 3LW, 3LY
Pa1877—
Conway Terrace, Hove Part of Blatchington Road, (apparently) on the south side between Belfast Street and George Street, and renumbered as such by 1880. Pa1877–Pa1878
Cooksbridge Road
BN2 5HH
Numbered in two phases on 30 November 1983 and September 19841. 1ESRO DB/D/27/445
Coolham Drive, Whitehawk
BN2 5HU, 5QW
Numbered 6 January 1988 and part on 10 August 19881. 1ESRO DB/D/27/446
Coombe Road
BN2 4EA, 4EB, 4ED, 4EE, 4EQ
Part renumbered 21 February 19071.
Church of St Alban       †Church of St Alban [right in March 2013] was designed by Lacy W Ridge FRIBA, the Diocesan Surveyor, in red brick and opened in 1911. The last service was held on 25 June 2006, the church was officially declared redundant on 22 November 2006, demolished in 2013 and replaced by—
      37-45 (odd) are terraced houses, built 2014.
      Coombe Road Primary School opened in April 1912, with the addition of an infants department in 1915.
Pi1901—
1ESRO DB/D/27/155
Coombe Terrace
BN2 4AD
On the east side of Lewes Road, between Coombe Road and the bus garage.
      8 was a recruiting office during the First World War.
To1902—
Coombe Vale, Saltdean
BN2 8HL, 8HN
Numbered 7 May 19601. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/378
Coppard['s] Gap, Portslade See Copperas Gap. 1859-1881
Copperas Gap The name of the southern part of Portslade (Portslade-by-Sea) prior to the granting of urban district status in 1896. Copperas is a form of ferrous sulphate (green vitriole), used in the textile industry for dying and found in the green sand strata in this area. Also known as Coppard['s] Gap1. Pa1891–To1902
1PO1859: 1603
Copse Hill, Westdene
BN1 5GA
Named 5 April 19381; a clump of trees was preserved at the south-east end. Numbered 10 October 19392 and numders in Highbank deleted 6 January 19533. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/40
2ESRO DB/D/27/58
3ESRO DB/D/27/304
Corkscrew Road Early popular name for Withdean Road, even used as the caption on postcards.  
Cornford Close, Portlade Cul-de-sac off Langridge Drive, with pedestrian access to Clover Way and Downsview Road.  
Cornish Mews At 56 Exeter Street.  
Cornwall Gardens, Preston
BN1 6RH, 6RJ

Preston Park CA (1, 5-9 odd, Lydstep, Cinderford, West View, 1-12 Cornwall House, 2-18 even, Crispins, Brunswick).
Numbered 25 April 1935 and 23 May 19351; supplementary numbering 25 November 19652. To1906—
1ESRO DB/D/27/14
2ESRO DB/D/27/437
Coronation Street
BN2 3AQ
Mostly built 1903-04, after the coronation of Edward VII: eight houses designed by T H Scutt1, four by Clayton & Black2, and four more by Mitchell in 19263. To1906—
1ESRO DB/D/7/5620-21
2ESRO DB/D/7/5856
3ESRO DB/D/7/6934
Cottage Drove, Patcham   1881
Cottage Road Off Lewes Road. 1851
Cottage Square, Patcham.  
County Oak Avenue, Patcham
BN1 8DJ, 8LT
      Carden Primary School opened in 1948—the first new school to open in Britain after World War II. It was prefabricated and assembled on site, allowing for the post-war shortage of building materials. Because of its historic significance as the start of a new era of national reconstruction, it was filmed for Gaumont British newsreel in 19481 and Pathè News in 19492.
      County Oak Medical Centre. See Carden Hill.
      ph The County Oak opened in a pre-fab building, which was replaced by the current building, designed by Tiltman & Howard for Whitbread, which was built adjacently and opened in 1961.
Ke1949—
1Gaumont British newsreel on YouTube
1Pathè newsreel
Court Farm Cottages, Patcham See Vale Avenue. Ke1935–Ke1958
Court Farm Road, Ovingdean
BN2 7FL
Short road of interwar housing. Land from Rottingdean Court Farm was sold by the Nevill family to Mrs Dorothy Nevill and others on 25 October and 1 November 19221. Ke1947—
1ESRO ABE/18V includes a sketch plan of the farm by Joshua Morgan c1795
Court Farm Road, West Blatchington
BN3 7QR, 7QU, 7QW, 7QZ
The farm was at the junction with Holmes Avenue. Ke1938—
Court Ord Cottages, Rottingdean Built in 1898, they are now part of Meadow Close, Rottingdean, and on the B&H local list. Ke1947
Court Ord Road, Rottingdean
BN2 7FD
Beechlands estate. Numbered 24 April 19531. The south side provides rear entrances to Meadow Close, to which part of the road was renumbered 23 April 19712. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/379
2ESRO ACC8745/64
Courtenay Terrace, Hove
BN3 2WF, 2WG, 2WH, 2WJ

Cliftonville CA.
The terrace was built c1840 with additions in 1922. The name is probably associated with Hon Elizabeth Courtenay, daughter of 2nd Viscount Courtenay, wife of Lord Charles Somerset, who is commemorated in St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street. See also Kingsway.
      Courtenay Beach, the residence of Sir Ashley Rawson Cooper MP in 1926, is Grade II listed1.
      Courtenay House, the residence of Sir Ashley Rawson Cooper MP in1927, is Grade II listed1.
      Courtenay Gate is on the site of Mills Terrace. Designed by London architects Coleridge, Jennings & Soimenow, completed in 1934, comprising 32 flats on six floors and a penthouse above. It was initially owned by architect Maurice Bloom. The building was requisitioned during the Second World War.
      Courtenay Tye was the later residence of British actress and Hollywood film star Elizabeth Allan and is marked by a blue plaque. It had previously been owned from 1934 until his death by Dr Edmund Distin Maddick. It is Grade II listed1
      Little Courtenay was built c1899 and extensively modified in 1932 by P B Hunter. It was also owned by Dr Edmund Distin Maddick.3
Ta1854—
1HE 1280508
2HE 1187565; James Gray Collection image
3HE 1205902
Courtney Terrace, Station Road, Portslade   Pa1874–Pi1901; Census1881
Coventry Street
BN1 5PP, 5PQ
Goldsmid estate. Under construction 1883-84, built c1890 by Beves and Tooth1.
      44 was a fried fish shop (1904-05).
      46 has never been allocated. An entrance to Stanford Junior school is here.
      48 has an original shopfront.
      90 is on the site of Police Fire Station no 12 (Port Hall Road) from 1905.
Pa1883—
1ESRO ACC8745/64
Cow Hayes, Portslade   Census1881
Cowdens Close, Hangleton
BN3 8FB
Cowdens was a local field name. Ke1969—
Cowfold Road, Whitehawk
BN2 5EN, 5EP
Ke1937—
Cowley Drive, Woodingdean
BN2 6TD, 6TE, 6TG, 6TH

¶ Designated an Important Local Parade.
Named after Harry Cowley, a Brighton chimney sweep and social activist and campaigner. Numbered 19 April 1955, with supplementary numbering 5 September 1957 and 6 February 19581.
      ph 102, The Toby Inn was designed by John Leopold Denman and opened in 1960. It closed in 2007 and is now known as Toby Events.
Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/328
Cowley's Bottom Area between Harrington Farm and Lower Roedale Farm, north-east of Fiveways.  
Cowper Street, Hove
BN3 5BN 5BP
In the Poet's Corner district, named after poet and hymnodist William Cowper (1731-1800), who pronounced his name 'cooper'. 'Houses building' in 1882. Renumbered 1894.
      37 was once a post office.
Pa1882—
Crabtree Avenue, Hollingbury
BN1 8DE, 8DG, 8DH, 8DS
Renumbered 4 February 19641. Ke1949—
1ESRO DB/D/27/421
Cragg's Lane Name for Duke Street until at least 17791. 1Sicklemore Map of Brighthelmstone
Craignair Avenue, Patcham
BN1 8UG, 8UH
Part of the Ladies Mile Estate, named by developer George Ferguson after the village in Dumfries, Scotland near his birthplace. Named 27 April 19331. Ke1935—
1ESRO DB/D/27/30
Cranbourne Street
BN1 2RD
Built early 1830s on Kemp-owned land. G Lynn bought a piece of waste ground at the back of the street for £30 in 18331. It now turns through 90 degrees at its west end below Churchill Square.
The Cranbourne Arms       ph 9-10, Crown's opened by 1854 as The Lamb & Flag, although a PH may have been here as early as the 1790s.
      ph 11, Inn on the Square was opened by Tamplin c1848 as The Cranbourne Arms [right]. The name persisted until the late 20th century, when it changed to The Western [Front], then to ita current name in the 2010s.
Image: The Cranbourne Arms as the gathering place for an (all-male) outing of fishermen and others in 1902 [RS James Gray Collection]
1Brighton Herald 1833-09-07: 3d
Cranleigh Avenue, Rottingdean
BN2 7FX, 7GN, 7GT
Numbered 20 August 19481. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/285
Cranmer Avenue, Hove
BN3 7JP, 7JQ
Ke1932—
Craven Buildings Co1799–
Craven Road
BN2 0FE, 0FF, 0FG
Developed in 1960s/1970s (see Craven Vale). Ke1956—
Craven Vale Housing estate, the most central in the city, extending northwards from Sutherland Road and comprising Queensway, Craven Road, Parham Close, Hadlow Close, Southwater Close and Tilgate Close Developed in the 1960s/1970s on the site of allotment gardens and Sweet Patch.  
Craven Wood Woodland owned by Brighton and Hove City Council on the west side of Whitehawk Hill, accessed from The Causeway and Parham Close.  
Crawley Road, Coldean
BN1 9ER
Link road between Hawkhurst Road and Saunders Hill/Wolseley Road. Ke1954—
Crayford Road
BN2 4DQ
Laid out in 1924. Name from Kentish place? Ke1932—
Crescent, The, Moulsecoomb
BN2 4TB, 4TD, 4TS
Numbered 19221. Pi1925—
1ESRO DB/D/27/256
(endorsed 'not officially approved')
Crescent Close, Woodingdean
BN2 6SR
Numbered 5 September 19571. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/333
Crescent Cottages Between Upper Bedford Street and Montague Place.
      Council houses, built here in 1934/35, were demolished in 1965 to make way for the Essex Place flats.
Ba1822–Ke1964
Crescent Drive North, Woodingdean Building of 'rural' dwellings (often of poor quality)1 began in the 1920s. Numbered 12 June 1952 and 6 June 19572. Ke1947—
1James Gray
2ESRO DB/D/27/302
Crescent Drive South, Woodingdean
BN2 6SF, 6SL, 6SN. 6SP. 6SQ
Numbered 12 June 1952, 3 May 1955 and 5 December 19571. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/302
Crescent Place
BN2 1AS

East Cliff CA.
Close to Royal Crescent. (Part of 108 Marine Parade on the west side predates Royal Crescent.)
      1-2 are c1825 probably by Wilds and Busby. Grade II listed1.
      11-12 are c1825 probably by Wilds and Busby. Grade II listed2.
      13-14 are also possibly by Wilds and Busby.
Br1845—
1HE 1380420
2HE 1380421
Crescent Road
BN2 3RP

Round Hill CA.
'No houses at present' in Pa1871.
      19,21,23 were built in 1898 by George Burstow, planning application dated 16 June 18981.
      22 still has the name of Primrose Laundry Works (much faded) above the archway leading to the rear yard.
      31-37, 39-51 and 53 were designed by Samuel Denman and built by George Buster (Burstow) in 1881, planning applications dated 16 February, 2 March and 18 May respectively2.
Fo1859—
1ESRO DB/D/7/4746
2ESRO DB/D/7/1973, 1984, 2014
Crescent Street Former name for Upper St James's Street when the roadway was not extended beyond Bedford Street1. Number of properties in 1822: 25. Ba1822–
1Wetton & Jarvis map 1822
Crespin Way, Moulsecoomb
BN1 7FG
Numbered 5 Ocober 19611. Largest known examples of elm tree Ulmus x Hollandica 'Bea Schwarz' planted here in 19642. Cul-de-sac leading to
      Moulsecoomb railway station, opened May 1980 (the first new station in the then British Rail's Southern Region), access to Platform 2 (north-eastbound). See also Queensdown School Road.
Ke1964—
1ESRO DB/D/27/390
2Wikipedia
Crest Way, Portslade
BN41 2EY
Built on the site of the Hove Borough Sanatorium, which had been Foredown Isolation Hospital from its construction in 1883 until 1913. The hospital's water tower in Foredown Road survives as a local landmark.  
The Crestway, Hollingdean
BN1 7AY, 7BL, 7BN, 7BX
Named and numbered 1 April 19651. Ke1954—
1ESRO DB/D/27/425
Cribet, The, Aldrington   [1881]
Croft Drive, Mile Oak
BN41 2HS
No through road. Ke1969—
Croft Road, Withdean
BN1 5JJ
Off Colebrook Road.
      Laid out by Lawrence Graham & Co in 19281. 'Houses building' in Pi1928. Numbered 28 August 19482.
Pi1928—
1ESRO DB/D/57/878-4
2ESRO DB/D/27/284
Cromwell Road, Hove
BN3 3DX, 3EA, 3EB, 3ED, 3EF

Hove Station CA (1 [Eaton Lodge]).
Willett Estate CA (2-71, from rear of Eaton Hall to rear of 72 Wilbury Road).
'Houses building' in Pa1881. The section between Holland Road and Wilbury Villas was known as Vernon Road while under development in the 1880s.
      2-36 are Grade II listed1.
      70, The Palmeira was designed by Thomas Simpson and opened as the Palmeira Hotel in 1880. It was owned by Kidd & Hotblack and then by Scottish & Newcastle Breweries. It was briefly known as the Oliver Cromwell Tavern in the early 1990s but had reverted by 1996.
Pa1881—
1HE 1205345
Cromwell Street
BN2 9XN
'Houses building' in Pa1881. Numbered 20 April 18811. Pa1881—
1ESRO DB/D/27/222
Cross Street, Brighton   Co1799—
Cross Street, Hove
BN3 1AJ

Brunswick Town CA.
It is numbered consecutively from the south-east corner, returning along the north side.
      ph 15 was a beerhouse from 1868 and had the name Napoleon the Third by 1889.It closed by 1938. It is now a shop.
      16, 17 have early shop fronts; now residential.
      ph 22 was the Coachmaker's Arms, which opened as a beerhouse in 1867 and acquired its name by 1881. It closed by 1899.
Census1841; Fo1850—
Cross Street North   Census1861
Crossbush Road, Whitehawk
BN2 5HJ, 5HL
Numbered September 19841. 1ESRO DB/D/27/445
The Crossway, Hollingdean
BN1 7BW, 7El
      Church of St Richard of Chichester was designed by Clayton, Black & Daviel as a chapel of ease for St Matthias and opened in 1954. It closed for worship in October 2013. Ke1954—
Crowhurst Road, Hollingbury
BN1 8AF, 8AP, 8AQ, 8AS
      †Rival Lamps factory was designed by Richard Seifert & Partners in 1949. It later became The Argus newspaper works until 2016 and was demolished in 2018. Ke1954—
Crown Gardens
BN1 3LD
Small houses. Pedestrian access only. [1826] Fo1848—
Crown Road, Portslade
BN41 1SH, 1SJ
  [1881]; Pa1890—
Crown Street
BN1 3EH
Built 1820s. No thoroughfare.
      †1-5 were demolished by 1926 and replaced by 166-168 Western Road when that road was widened.
      ph4-5 was the Exmouth Tavern, which had opened by 1862 and closed in 1907.
      14-15 are Grade II listed1.
      †(16a) Crown Street Room opened at the north-west corner by 1880. From 1885 it was Christ Church Infant School and was simply Crown Street Council School from 1905. After the closure of the school c1931 it became Crown Street Hall from 1932 but had gone by 1937.
      †17 opened as a Female Mission House in 1865. From 1870 until 1901 it was known as Christ Church Mission House/Rooms. In 1905 it was called Assembly Rooms. It was briefly a radio-gramophone factory (1935) and Brighton Centre for the Unemployed (1936). In the mid-1980s five two-storey terraced houses were built on the site of 16-17, known as Bishop's Walk.
Bishop's Walk was here.
      Six houses (possibly 18-23) were designed by W W Eldridge and built by Jabez Reynolds in 1872 at a tender price of £9104.
      19 is Grade II listed2.
      23 is Grade II listed3.
      †25- were demolished by 1926 and replaced by 169-174 Western Road when that road was widened.
Br1845—
1HE 1380422,
2HE 1380424
3HE 1380425
4The Builder, 9 Mar 1872:194; ESRO DB/D/7/1130 (10 Apr 1872)
Cuckmere Way, Hollingbury
BN1 8GA, 8GB, 8GF, 8GH
No properties listed in Ke1949. Part numbered 22 February 19621. Ke1949—
1ESRO DB/D/27/403
Cultural Quarter Appellation since the construction of the Jubilee Library in Jubilee Street for the area that incorporates the library, the Pavilion, the museum and art gallery, the Dome, the Corn Exchange, the Theatre Royal and other buildings. The city council's definition incorporates a much wider area, encompassing everything from the station to the seafront, and from Old Steine westwards, including the Lanes and North Laine.  
Cumberland Drive

Preston Park CA.
Private Road. Ba1822—
Cumberland Place From 43 Edward Street to 68 Carlton Hill.
      A narrow street of poor housing built soon after 1800. Number of properties in 1822: 20. 'Included in the "Condemned Area"' in Pi1897. One of four such adjacent streets demolished in the slum clearance of the mid 1890s for the construction of White Street and Blaker Street.
Ba1822–Pi1897
Cumberland Road, Preston
BN1 6QR, 6SL, 6ST, 6ZE

Preston Park CA.
'No houses' in Pa1882. Renumbered 23 May 19291.
      Belgrave House. 1881.
      Clermont, a large house standing alone on the south side until the mid 1880s, gave its name to the Clermont housing development. 1881.
      The Cottage. 1881.
      Cumberland House. 1881.
Pa1882—
1ESRO DB/D/27/136
Cumberland Street Former name of Cavendish Street1. 1Marchant-Sicklemore map 1809
Curwen Place
BN1 6TZ, 6UH, 6UJ, 6UP, 6UQ, 6UR, 6US
Previously called Curwen Close2, this was built in the late 1950s on the three-acre site of Beechwoodand was numbered 4 June 19591The Curwen family were the last owners of the Withdean and Tongdean estates; Eldred Curwen lived at Withdean Court.. Ke1964—
1ESRO DB/D/27/377
2Ke1960
Cuthbert Road
BN2 0EN
Laid out in the early 1880s. Pa1882—

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