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Sackville Gardens, Aldrington

Sackville Gardens conservation area.
The Sackville family was prominent in Sussex from Elizabethan times and were Lords of the Manor of Hove until 1967. Renumbered 1899 (six added to previous numbers). Pa1891—
Sackville Gardens CA Conservation area, designated 1997. Comprises 13.11ha (32.4 acres), bounded by Church Road, Walsingham Road and Westbourne Place. Character statement
Map
Sackville Road, Hove

Old Hove conservation area.
Pembroke and Princes conservation area.
Formerly known as Hove Drove and forming the western limit of development until at least 1880.
      68 Tennyson Court, now apartments, was the Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary (Western Branch). It was built in 1887 and bears the date and the royal cipher. The south facade in Montgomery Street bears the inscription 'This hospital wing was erected in memory of Carr Burton Esq by his widow Mary Penny Burton'.
      St Barnabas Church, see Byron Street.
      159 Salvation Army Citadel is accessed through an archway and up a right-angled flight of steps.
Pa1882—
Sackville Villas Possible pre-development name of Sackville Gardens. Land here was conveyed by George Gallard to the Sussex Universal and Equitable Land Society Ltd in 18821. 'Houses building' in Pa1884. Pa1884–Pa1890

1ESRO ACC 11225
Sadler Way, Whitehawk Numbered April and 4 December 19581. Ke1960—
1ESRO DB/D/27/364
St Andrew's Road, Brighton

Preston Park conservation area.
Numbered 7 March 19011.
      2, 4, 12-18 (even) were designed by Clayton & Black in 18952.
      6-10 (even) were not allocated.
Pa1896—
1ESRO DB/D/27/111
2ESRO DB/D/7/4163 (4 Jul 1895)
St Andrew's Road, Portslade Pi1909—
St Ann's Well Gardens See Somerhill Road
St Aubyns, Hove

Old Hove conservation area.
Former copyhold of manor of Hova Villa and Hova Ecclesia1, initially called St Aubyn's Place. 'Other houses now building' in Fo1864. The road was numbered in 1869, confusingly beginning on the corner of Seafield Road. The 4th Earl Amherst married Hon Eleanor Clementina St Aubyn in 1856. Her mother, Lady Elizabeth Clementina Townsend was born in Brighton and married John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan. There was an archery ground on the northern half of the east side until housing encroached in the late 1870s.
      1 was built by George Lynn Jr5.
      2-6 (even) are a terrace of housing built c1860, now a hotel. Grade II listed2.
      9. Virginia Wolff spent several summers here in childhood.
      40 (Lynton House) was designed by Thomas Elworthy5.
      42 was designed by Thomas Elworthy6.
      46, 48 was designed by William Parnacott
      60, 62 was built by J Parsons & Son7
      64, 66, 68 were designed by Tuppen & Tasker6.
      †Cliftonville Nursery was on the northern half of the west side towards where Vallance Road is now; on the northern half of the east side, between here and then still incomplete Seafield Road, was an archery ground4.
      Lewis House. 1881.
      63 was built by Harvey Lewer 1878-18813.
St Aubyns
Fo1864—
1ESRO ACC8745/29
2HE 1292549
3ESRO DB/D/27/240
4OS1873
5ESRO DO/C/6/178 (16 Feb 1877)
6ESRO DO/C/6/398 (10 Jun 1879)
7ESRO DO/C/6/505 (14 Apr 1881)
St Aubyns Gardens, Hove
BN3 2TA

Old Hove conservation area.
A five-storey terrace of six houses on Kingsway west from St Aubyns.
[1881] To1907—
St Aubyns Mead, Rottingdean       Kipling Court.
St Aubyns Mews, Hove At 5 Alma Terrace. Pa1881–Pa1893
St Aubyns Road, Portslade       Portslade Congregational Church was opened in 1903. It is adjacent to a more recent church in Station Road. Pi1909—
St Aubyns South, Hove Continuation of St Aubyns south of Kingsway. Ke1933—
St Catherine's Terrace, Hove Part of Kingsway.
      17, Sussex Hotel freehold sold for £15,000 in January 19041.
Ta1854—
1The Builder, 30 Jan 1904:119
St Cuthman's Close, Whitehawk Cul-de-sac. Numbered 6 January 19881. 1ESRO DB/D/27/446
St George's Mews

North Laine conservation area.
Numbered 27 March 18841. Ta1854—
1ESRO DB/D/27/215
St George's Place       1a-13, 14 were probably designed by Amon Wilds and C A Busby and built c1825. Grade II listed1. [1826] Br1845—

1HE 1380848, 1380849
St George's Road

East Cliff conservation area.
The south side numbered 1 August 18791 and renumbered including Eastern Quadrant 17 January 19012.
      2 was a terraced house, remodelled by M Mellor for the Sussex Dairy Co in 1908. It has bas relief friezes on the return in Montague Place, the lower one featuring a cow. Grade II listed5.
      ph 8, The Thomas Kemp opened in 1824 and was called The Burlington Arms into the 20th century. It was the residence of the actor Tubby (Henry) Edlin in the 1920s, when it was owned by his family's hospitality business.
      ph 21, The Golden Cannon was an eating- and beer-house in 1905.
      Church of St George the Martyr was designed by Charles Augustin Busby for Thomas Kemp, who financed it as an investment to earn revenue from pew rents. It was consecrated on 30 December 1825. Kemp sold the church to Lawrence Peel in 1830/31 (?) and left the country. The church's silver was donated by Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV, who was a regular member of the congregation. Lawrence Peel's heir, Charles Lennox Peel, who inherited in 1888, sold the church to the congregation for £4,000 the following year. With seating capacity of 1,300, it is used for concerts as well as religious services. The church is Grade II listed3, as are two lampposts by the west entrance4.
      ph 58 was The Somerset Arms, which opened c1854 and closed c1964. The name is still in the stucco on the corner of the second floor. It as more recently been a café.
      ph 68 was The Belgrave (Arms), which opened c1854 and closed c1935.
      73-83 are Grade II listed6.
      ph 83, Hanbury Arms, formerly the Bombay Arms, is named after the Hanbury-Tracy family, the Barons Sudeley. It was the residence of Henry Abbey in the 1850s. The adjacent Sassoon Mausoleum in Paston Place was annexed in 1953.
      115-120 were called Eastern Quadrant until c1902.
      Gateway to Portland Mews with its wall and the end wall of 87 are Grade II listed7
Br1845—
1ESRO DB/D/27/250
2ESRO DB/D/27/83
3HE 1380852
4HE 1380853
5HE 1380850
6HE 1380851
7HE 1380854
St George's Street Former name of Pelham Street. Br1845—
St George's Street North [1826]
St George's Terrace

East Cliff conservation area.
      Bristol Road Methodist Church was designed by Thomas Lainson (plans dated 1 March 1872), built by John Fielder and opened in 1876, originally as Bristol Road Bible Christian Chapel. It closed in 1989 and was taken over by Brighton College.
      10, 11-14 are Grade II listed1.
Fo1848—
1HE 1380855, 1380859
St Helen's Crescent, Hangleton Close to St Helen's Church. Ke1966—
St Helen's Drive, Hangleton Close to St Helen's Church. Ke1958—
St Helen's Road The first council housing was built here between 1897 and 1900 on land given by Henry Abbey and Daniel Friend on the occasion of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in December 1896. The first houses were let in 1900 at 7s 6d (37½p) a week. Numbered 19 October 19051. Pi1896—
1ESRO DB/D/27/133
St Heliers Avenue, Hove Ke1933—
ST JAMES'S Area surrounding St James's Street.
St James's Avenue

East Cliff conservation area.
Built in 1889 on the site of Little St James's Street slums, but 'new street in course of completion' in Pa1895. Numbered 6 September 18941. Pa1895—
1ESRO DB/D/27/229
St James's Court

East Cliff conservation area.
A passage leading off George Street to two houses of c1800. It is now subject to a Public Space Protection Order and gated. Fo1864—
St James's Crescent Original name for Inwood Crescent until regular construction started. Pi1896–To1903
St James's Gardens At 21 St James's Street.
      12 had an ice house 1834-18441
1R G Martin: 'Ice Houses and the Commercial Ice Trade in Brighton' in Sussex Industrial History no 14: 21
St James's (Street) Mews At 29 St James's Street.
      †Volunteer Fire Brigade Stables
[1851] Pi1889
St James's Passage At 22 Hanover Street to 74 Hanover Terrace.
      A twitten with steps at the eastern end.
St James's Passage
Image: St James's Passage in 1976 [Brighton & Hove Museums].
[1851] Pi1889
St James's Place Row of six houses built 1790-1800 reached through a narrow passage at 4 St James's Street. Number of properties in 1822: 5. All six are Grade II listed1, as are the lamp posts in front of 1-2 and 42. Ba1822—
1HE 1380857
2HE 1380859, 1380860
St James's Square, Portslade Short cul-de-sac turning with 13 terraced houses off Wellington Road. [1881] To1902–Pi1925
St James's Street

East Cliff conservation area (2-60 and 64-130 consecutive).
Valley Gardens conservation area (1).
(B2118). Established 1790s, following the line of the leak way (access lane for the farm land) across the middle of Little Laine and into East Laine. The church of that name was built after the street was so named. The section between George Street and High Street was formerly called Prospect Row. Number of properties in 1822: 112. Numbering is sequential, starting at the north-west end. The street was apparently renumbered between 1822 and 1845, unchanged to about no 50, then by adding four until from c70 numbers increase by 16-18. The section between New Steine and Grafton Street on the south side was renumbered 23 February 18821.
      The westernmost section, crossing Old Steine, opened on 31 March 1834.

NORTH SIDE
      1-4 were designed by Amon Wilds and C A Busby. Grade II listed2.
—Here is pedestrian access to St James's Place.
      5 was the Imperial Picture Palace 1912-1916 with 270 seats. It is now a Mind charity shop.
      9, designed by Amon Wilds and C A Busby, was Brighton General Library, Literary and Scientific Institute 1826-c1842; it later became a branch of Liptons, then National Westminster Bank. Now St James's Dental Centre. Grade II listed3.
—Here is George Street (at 14).
      17-19 rebuilt 1914 for Boots the Chemists.
St James's Gardens was here (at 21), leading to the Methodist chapel in Dorset Gardens.
—Here is Dorset Gardens.
St James's Street Mews was here (at 21), leading to the Methodist chapel in . . .
      24 (23-24 from 1930) was J Sainsbury's butchery and grocer store from 1924.
      27-28 was an F W Woolworth store from 1931 to 2008.
      30 was built across the southern end of St James's Street Mews.
      ph 31, Bulldog opened in 1848 as St James's Tavern and kept that name for c150 years.
—Here is Cavendish Street.
—Here is High Street.
      †St James's Church was built 1810-13 on land given by Nathaniel Kemp, to a design by Scott & Hyde and rebuilt in 1874-75. It was closed in 1948 and demolished September 1950. The site is now occupied by a Co-operative Society store and flats.
—Here is Chapel Street.
      ph 46, Shortt's opened before 1818 as The Royal Oak. George Wigney held it copyhold until 1850 and kept that name for around 200 years until taking its present name in 2015. It was rebuilt in 1932 to a design by Edgar Wallis Long.
      †Devonshire House was on the corner here, replaced by Devonshire Mansions (see Devonshire Place).
—Here is Devonshire Place.
      T48-49, New Steine Mansions was here by 1845 as New Steine Hotel and Shades.
St James's Gardens was here (at 21), leading to the Methodist chapel in . . .
—Here is New Steine Mews.
      ph53 Was the Morning Star from 1856 to 1893.
—Here is St James Avenue.
—Here is Upper Rock Gardens.
      Church of St Mary the Virgin originally built by Amon Henry Wilds 1826-27 in the grounds of East Lodge in Upper Rock Gardens, was completely rebuilt in 1877-79 by Sir William Emerson19 after a partial collapse. It was designed to accommodate 854 worshippers, plus 44 children. The glass is by A O Hemming. The paintings of the Stations of the Cross were moved here in 1993 from St Thomas the Apostle in Davigdor Road. It is Grade II* listed13.
—Here is St Mary's Place.
      †61, Rock Brewery had been here since the early 19th century, It was acquired from William Willett by Portsmouth United Breweries in February 1928 and closed by 1950.
      †61½, Horse and Groom was opened by 1874 by Rock Brewery.
Mount Street was here.
—Here is Lavender Street.
—Continues as Upper St James's Street.

SOUTH SIDE
—Here is Grafton Street.
      ph 65, The Sidewinder opened in 1854 as the Lion, owned by Tamplin.
—Here is Atlingworth Street.
      73, 73A, 73B are Grade II listed16.
—Here is Lower Rock Gardens.
—Here is Rock Place.
—Here is New Steine.
—Here is Wentworth Street.
—Here is Margaret Street.
      87-87A were early 19th century terraced houses, converted with mid-late 19th-century cast-iron shop front. Grade II listed14.
      88-89 were late 18th/early 19th century terraced houses, converted with mid 19th-century cast-iron shop front. Grade II listed4.
—Here is Charlotte Street.
      90 was a late 18th century terraced house, converted to early-mid 19th-century corner shop. Grade II listed5.
      95-99 were early 19th terraced houses, converted to shops and flats. Grade II listed6.
      96 was the scene of a 'love tragedy' double suicide on 14 August 18968.
      101, 102 were early 19th terraced houses, converted to shops and flats. No 101 has mathematical tiles. Grade II listed7.
—Here is Madeira Place.
      107-111a were early 19th terraced houses, converted to shops and flats. Grade II listed15.
      [ph] 107 was St James's Hotel.
—Here is Broad Street.
—Here is Charles Street.
      116-117, 118 were late 18th/early 19th century terraced houses, converted to shops and flats. No 118 has mathematical tiles. Grade II listed9.
      120-121 were early 19th terraced houses, converted to shops and flats with mathematical tiles. Grade II listed10.
—Here is Manchester Street.
      124 was an early 19th terraced house, converted to shop and flats. Grade II listed11.
      126-127 was designed by Clayton Botham and rebuilt as the St James's Restaurant in 189817 or 1901 18. It is now a casino.
      128 (formerly 110) was the pharmacy of John Badcock.
      130 are Grade II listed12.
—Here is Steine Street.
Ba1822—
1ESRO DB/D/27/217
2HE 1380861
3HE 1380862
4HE 1380864, 1380865
5HE 1380866
6HE 1380868
7HE 1380869, 1380870
8Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 17 August 1896, p8
9HE 1380874, 1380875
10HE 1380877
11HE 1380881
12HE 1380882
13HE 1380884
14HE 1380863
15HE 1380873
16HE 1381691
17ESRO DB/D/7/4778
18Botham obituary in The Builder 27 July 1907 p117.
19ESRO DB/D/7/1430
St James's Street Mews Formerly between St James's Street and Edward Street but truncated to one third of the original length by 30 St James's Street at the southern end and an office block (now a University of Brighton building) to the north. The mews is accessed from Ardingly Street.
      2-14
Ke1937—
St John Street Original name of John Street1. Number of properties in 1822: 70. Marchant-Sicklemore map 1809; Ba1822
1Brighton tithe map 1852
St John's Mews

East Cliff conservation area.
Gated cul-de-sac off Bristol Road.
St John's Mews, Hove Turning out of First Avenue.
      Renamed St John's Place in 1933.
Pa1892–Ke1933
St John's Mount Council-owned 14-storey tower block off Mount Pleasant.
St John's Place, Brighton

Carlton Hill conservation area.
Built on the site of the garden of St John's Lodge in Tilbury Place.
      Tarnerland Nursery School. The land was donated by Laetitia Tilbury Tarner and opened in 1933 (see also Tarnerland).
Fo1848—
St John's Place, Hove

The Avenues conservation area.
Church of St John the Baptist (see Church Road) gave its name to the Place—which was originally called St John's Mews until 1933—and Road.
      1-7 are Grade II listed with 56 First Avenue1.
Ke1934—
1HE
St John's Road, Hove

Brunswick Town conservation area.
Formerly known as Palmeira Mews until c1909.
      The Floral Clock was originally created to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.
Pi1910—
St John's Street See St John Street.
St John's Terrace, Hove Renumbered as 43-89 Church Road by 1886. Pa1873–Pa1884
St Joseph's Close, Hove Named after St Joseph's Home for the Aged, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, which stood on Old Shoreham Road on this site until c1970. The chapel was designed by Anthony & Dixon and built in 1900.1 Ke1958—
1Roughwood
St Keyna Avenue, Hove Ke1930—
St Leonard's Avenue, Portslade Called Denis Road when first laid out in 19091. Pi1901—
1ESRO DO/C/6/3251
St Leonard's Gardens, Portslade Ke1930—
St Leonard's Road, Brighton From 155 Lewes Road to Hastings Road.
      Fairlight Primary and Nursery School, built 1932 to replace Fairlight Place Schools. This was Fairlight County Secondary School (for girls) from 1947 to 1962.
Pa1880—
St Leonard's Road, Aldrington       22 was conveyed by deed of gift in trust for the London Bible and Domestic Mission in 1887.
      32-54 are six pairs of semi-detached villas built by Charles W Jackson1, the planning application dated 21 February 1882.
[1881] Pa1892—
1ESRO DO/C/7/46
St Luke's Road

Queens Park conservation area.
No properties listed in Pa1893-1895. Numbered 5 June 19021. The lamppost in front of no 2 is Grade II listed2. (Another listed lamppost on the corner of St Luke's Terrace3 has been removed.)
      1 was designed by Samuel Denman in 18968
      2-16 (even) were designed by Samuel Denman in 18964
      3-9 (odd) were designed by Samuel Denman in 18945
      13-25 (odd) were designed by Samuel Denman in 18966 but were not built immediately thereafter (see next entries).
      18, 20have the date 1899 in the scrollwork on the gable.
      22-26 (even) have the date 1900 in the scrollwork on the gable.
      28-34 were designed by Frederick Axtell in 18998.
      36-44 (even) were built by George Burstow for Hallett & Duke in 18997.
Pa1893—
1ESRO DB/D/27/95
2HE 1380886
3HE 1380887
4ESRO DB/D/7/4050
5ESRO DB/D/7/4071
6ESRO DB/D/7/4365
7ESRO DB/D/7/4974
8ESRO DB/D/7/4435
St Luke's Terrace

Queens Park conservation area (8, 10, Swimming Bath, St. Luke's Middle School [sic], St. Luke's First School [sic]).
Numbered 3 March 19041. Lampposts outside no 23, no 41 and opposite the swimming baths are Grade II listed2.
      St Luke's Pool was designed by Thomas Simpson and built 1900-03. Grade II listed3.
      St Luke's School was designed by Thomas Simpson, probably his best work as architect to the Brighton & Preston School Board, and built 1900-03. Grade II listed, as are the walls and railings4.
      10, Caretaker's House attached to St Luke's School was designed by Thomas Simpson and built 1900-1903. Grade II listed5.
      Walls and railings to the school, pool and caretaker's house are Grade II listed6.
Pi1896—
1ESRO DB/D/27/102
2HE 1380890, 1380891, 1380893
3HE 1380895
4HE 1380894
5HE 1380888
6HE 1380897
St Margaret's Place

Regency Square conservation area.
Originally called Regency Cottages, after nearby Regency Square, the name was changed to that of the chapel formerly at the west end. Completed about 1825. (1826 gives both names together). Royal Newburgh Assembly Rooms, now technically 31 Cannon Place, faces into St Margaret's Place. Numbered April 19211.
      2-3, called Sea Nook and Peter Pan respectively, were built c1825 and are probably by Amon Wilds and C A Busby.
      †St Margaret's chapel of ease formerly at the west end was built by banker, actor, journalist and speculator Barnard Gregory, and named by him after his wife Margaret. Built by Cooper and Lynn of Brighton from designs by Charles Augustin Busby. The foundation stone was laid on 15 May 1824, and the chapel opened for worship on 26 December 1824; it closed on 30 September 1956, was declared redundant in 1958 and demolished in 1959, when the bell, Oregon pine pews and choir stalls were removed to the Church of Christ the King in Braybon Avenue and the communion rail to London Road Methodist Church.
      Sussex Heights, a 24-storey tower block that dominates the seafront, is the tallest residential building in the city at 336 feet, 82 metres above the exhibition halls on which it stands. Designed by R Seifert & Partners and built in 1966-1968, it was the tallest UK residential building outside London until 2005 and remains the tallest on the south coast. It comprises 115 flats, plus a penthouse occupying the whole of the 24th floor.
Ke1845—
1ESRO DB/D/46/874
St Mark's Mews

East Cliff conservation area.
St Mark's Street

East Cliff conservation area.
St Mark's Church is nearby in Eastern Road.
The street and the shop on the north-east corner (230 Eastern Road) featured in the film The Gelignite Gang (1954).
Pa1878—
St Martin's Place       †Brighton Lighting & Electric Engineering Company (BLEECO), formerly Cox & Sons, was here. Street lamps bearing the BLEECO name can still be seen—see Charlotte Street.
      Johnson Bank is a seven-storey Brighton Council block of 37 flats; construction was started by Davies Construction, completed by Rice as stage 2 of the Wellington Road redevelopment in 1965-1967.
Pa1867—
St Martin's Street Close to the Church of St Martin with St Wilfred and St Alban. Rev Arthur Douglas Wagner acquired land in this area, some from Charles Catt, for working-class housing. Numbered 18 October 18831.
      †St Martin's CofE School was designed by George Somers Clarke and build by Jabez Reynolds. It was converted into St Martin's Court when a new school was built in Hartington Road.
      ph The Bugle Inn was designed by Samuel Denman and opened in 1881.
Pa1867—
1ESRO DB/D/27/190A
St Mary Street, Kemp Town See St Mary's Street. Ke1845
St Mary Magdalene Street Terraced cottages. Pa1871—
St Mary's Hill   [1861]
St Mary's Place   Ta1854—
St Mary's Square, Kemp Town Gated housing development off Chichester Place, built in 1990 on the former playing field of St Mary's Hall school, which was on the opposite (north) side of Eastern Road 1836-2009.  
St Mary('s) Street   Ke1845—
St Michael's Place Numbering is consecutive, start in the south-west corner and returning down the east side.
      17 was a school for deaf children founded by Mary Hare in 1895, marked by a Brighton & Hove City Council blue plaque, unveiled on 23 March 2024.
Pa1868—
St Michael's Road, Portslade Built late 1860s.
St Nicholas Road Built late 1860s; 'houses now building' in Pa1867-1868.
      St Nicholas Court. See St Nicholas Road.
Pa1867—
St Nicholas Road, Portslade Pi1909—
St Patrick's Road, Hove Bisecting streets between Portland Road and Coleridge Street. No houses.
      Hove Methodist Church. See Portland Road.
To1898—
St Paul's Street Pa1867—
St Peter's Close, Hove Cul-de-sac off Holmes Avenue. Ke1960—
St Peter's Place Formerly known as Prospect Place.
      St Peter's Church is Grade II* listed1. See York Place.
      1-3, 4-9 were built c1825 and are probably by Amon Wilds and C A Busby. They are Grade II listed2.
Ke1845—
1HE 1380903 (1952)
2HE 1380899, 1380902
3Building News 1898-05-06:656a
4ESRO ACC 7600/22
St Peter's Road, Portslade   Pi1912—
St Peter's Street Formerly called Peter Street. [1826] Ta1854—
St Philip's Mews, Hove Private road off New Church Road, adjacent to St Philip's Church.
St Richard's Road, Portslade Ke1947—
St Thomas's Street See Thomas's Street.
Salehurst Close, Hollingdean Cul-de-sac off Lynchet Close. Six four-bedroom/two-bathroom family houses and two flats for rent by Brighton and Hove City Council, completed August 2018.  
Salisbury Road, Hove

Brunswick Town conservation area (1-3 consecutive).
Willett Estate conservation area (4-27 consecutive).
Mainly built 1876-1879, the brick coming from the Isle of Wight and was regarded as a departure from render1. Pa1878—
1Tthe Builder, 27 May 1871:409
Salmon Court At 147 North Street.
      No thoroughfare.
[1826] Fo1851–Ta1854
SALTDEAN 'Salt valley' (OE salt denu). The gap in the cliffs at this point (Saltdean Gap) suggests the former presence of a stream or river; salt water (?).Formerly part of Newhaven Rural District, incorporated into Brighton in 1928.
Saltdean Drive, Saltdean The road was laid out by the late 1920s.
      15, Gayside dates from the 1930s.
Ke1947—
Saltdean Drive North, Saltdean Former name of Mount Drive until 29 December 19521. Ke1949
1ESRO DB/D/27/307
Saltdean Park       Saltdean Barn dates from early-mid 19th century and is Grade II listed1. 1HE 1380904
Saltdean Park Road, Saltdean       Saltdean Lido was designed in 1937 by architect Richard W H Jones for Charles Neville in the English Moderne style, influenced by the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea (where Neville had held his wedding reception). It opened in 1938, was refurbished and re-opened in 1998. It is Grade II* listed1.
      Saltdean Library was designed by architect R W H Jones in the English Moderne style as part of the Saltdean Lido estate.
Ke1969—
1HE 1380905
Saltdean Vale, Saltdean Numbered 40-90 9 January 1960; 92-138, 129-151, 140-166 in 1960; 93-115 31 May 19621.
      123 is Grade II listed in association with 95-97 Lustrells Crescent2.
Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/316
2HE 1381692
Sandgate Road One of four adjacent roads in the Fiveways area named after Kent towns (see also Sandgate, Dover, Hythe), under construction by 1901. It was numbered 1 October 19031. Pi1901—
1ESRO DB/D/27/93
Sandhurst Avenue, Woodingdean Built c1957. Ke1966—
Sandown Road Steep road of stepped small two-storey terraced houses, nearly all built in 1903 by George Burstow. This is one of several roads named after places in the Isle of Wight (see also Totland Road, Carisbrooke Road, Ryde Road). Pi1911—
Sandringham Close, Hove No properties listed in Ke1960. Ke1960—
Sandringham Drive, Hove Ke1960—
Sanyhils Avenue, Patcham Part of the Ladies Mile Estate, named by developer George Ferguson after a place in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Named 27 April 19331. Ke1934—
1ESRO DB/D/27/30
Saunder's Buildings At 3 Black Lion Street.
      Also known as Saunder's Court. No thoroughfare.
[1826-1851] Pa1872–To1907
Saunders Hill, Coldean  
Saunders Park Rise  
Saunders Park View  
Saw Mill Lane This street cannot be traced, is not listed in directories and cannot be found on maps. Yet there is a planning application for offices for Blackmore & Co (also untraceable so far) in 18711 and a reference in a bankruptcy notice for one Henry Reed 'formerly of Nelson Street, Brighton, Sussex, potato salesman ... licensed victualler and licensed hawker, and now of 2 Saw Mill Lane, Brighton, Sussex, out of business or employ'2. 1ESRO DB/D/7/1112
2The Edinburgh Gazette 15 October 1867: 1199
Saxon Close, Saltdean  
Saxon Road, Hove       Aldrington Recreation Ground opened on 24 April 1900. Pi1912—
Saxon Villas   [1861]
Scab(e)'s Castle A farm dating from the late 18th century had its main buildings in Hartington Road,=. The site became Brighton Extra-Mural Cemetery in Lewes Road in 1857. Census1861-1891
Scarborough Road, Preston 'Houses building' in Pa1885. [1881] Pa1885—
School Lane Leading from Middle Street to Ship Street.
      Later called Moon's Court.
[1826] Fo1856–Fo1859
School Road, Hove Part of the Glen Estate. Road laid out on former allotments by George Burstow for J V Franklin1. The name comes from what are now the West Hove Infant and Junior Schools on Portland Road. No properties listed in To1899. To1899—
1ESRO DO/C/6/1573 (13 April 1897)
Scotland Street Built around 1860. Fo1865—
Scott Road, Hove Stoneham (Portland) estate. Scott was one of the family names of William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, from his mother, Henrietta, daughter of Major General John Scott. No properties listed in Pi1905. Pi1905—
Sea View Terrace, Black Rock Facing the sea. Pa1887–Pi1928
Seafield Cottages The location is uncertain but they were close to Victoria Terrace. Census1881
Seafield Road

Cliftonville conservation area (east side).
Old Hove conservation area (west side).
Built by Jabez Reynolds in 1875-79 and originally called Seafield Villas. There was an archery ground on the northern half of the west side until housing encroached in the late 1870s. Pa1882—
Seafield Villas Original name of Seafield Road. Pa1875–Pa1878
Seaford Road, Portslade Pa1890—
Seafront Estate, Aldrington Designation for the development of an area south of New Church Road and Shoreham Road (Kingsway), comprising Glendor Road, Norman Road, Recreation Road (renamed Wish Road), Saxon Road, Sea Road, Tandridge Road and Tennis Road, laid out in 1902 by J W B Blackman for George Payne.
Seaview Road, Woodingdean Part of the Wick Estate, it was numbered 29 April 19481. Ke1847—
1ESRO DB/D/27/283
Second Avenue, Hove

The Avenues conservation area.
One of four sequentially numbered avenues running off Kingsway parallel with and on either side of Grand Avenue. The land was part of more than 40 acres let by the Stanford Estate in 18717. 'Houses building' in Pa1875.
      4, Exton House was built 1876-77. Grade II listed1.
      11a is Grade II listed with 7-12 Queen's Place2.
      19 was the residence of Adeline Maria Fisher, daughter of the historian Herbert William Fisher, sister of historian-politician HAL Fisher, cousin of Virginia Woolf and first wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. During the First World War the Invalid Comforts Fund for prisoners-of-war was run from here3.
      21 was built 1878-79. Grade II listed4.
      23 was the residence of Constantine Alexander Ionides from 1881 and where he died in 1900; his widow Agathonike also died here in 1920. The rear extension (1890) is by Philip Webb6.
      24 was built c1878. It was the residence of Alderman George Baldwin Woodruff, the first mayor of Hove. Grade II listed5.
Pa1875—
1HE 1209667
2HE 1187582
3Lyons, section 25
4HE 1292517
5HE 1187583
6ESRO DO/C/6/898
7The Builder, 27 May 1871:409
Sedgwick Road, Hollingbury Three-storey apartment blocks, built c1956-57 and later (1980s?) renamed Bramble Way. Derivation of the name is uncertain but could be from Sedgwick Park and Sedgwick Castle, near Horsham.
      68 was the final residence of actress Phyllis Dare from 1966 to c1975.
Ke1956—
See-Saw Way, Whitehawk Cul-de-sac of timber-framed self-build houses off Vines Cross Road, built in 1993 to designs by Architype.  
Sefton Road, Mile Oak Ke1947—
Selba Drive, North Moulsecoomb Cul-de-sac off Staplefield Drive, built by Coldean Self Build Association1—hence the road's name. Ke1968—
1ESRO DB/D/84/26/18523
Selborne Place, Hove Pa1892—
Selborne Road, Hove

Willett Estate conservation area
Listed to no 29 and 'Houses building' in Pa1878.
      1 was the Stanford Estate Office and premises of surveyor and architect (1877-) and Augustus C Udny (1899-1911).
      2 is on the site of a tumulus.
      27 was the childhood residence of Sir Charles Aubrey Smith in the 1890s, when he was playing first class cricket for Sussex.
Pa1877—
Selhurst Road, Woodingdean Numbered 6 September 1956, supplementary numbering 19 January 19621. Numbered 26 June 19582. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/328
2ESRO DB/D/27/322
Selmeston Place, Whitehawk Cul-de-sac off Whitehawk Way. Numbered 3 August 19831. Selmeston is a village in East Sussex. 1ESRO DB/D/27/445
Selsey Close, Coldean Seley is a town in West Sussex.  
Selsfield Drive, West Moulsecoomb       Hawkridge Court is a block of 30 council flats on the Bates Estate, on a former housing office site, built by Morgan Sindall and completed October 2020. Ke1954—
Semley Road

Preston Park conservation area.
Built 1896-1897 by Thomas Scutt1. The two sides differ in design, one side being amended from the original plan2. The name is from a village on the Wiltshire estates of the Stanford family, which owned the land on which the road was built. Pi1897—
1ESRO DB/D/7/4293
2ESRO DB/D/7/4450
Sevelands Close, Whitehawk Cul-de-sac off Whitehawk Way. Numbered March 19901. 1ESRO DB/D/27/446
SEVEN DIALS Point of intersection of Buckingham Place, Chatham Place, Goldsmid Road, Prestonville Road and Vernon Terrace with Dyke Road.
      The skeleton of a warrier, an urn and other items were found here on 25 October 1845.
Seville Street Terraced housing built 1903 by Thomas Scutt for Kemp (13 houses) and Clyde (12 and 7 houses) and 1904 by Clayton & Black for Kemp (8 houses). Cul-de-sac at northern end. Pi1905—
Seymour Square

East Cliff conservation area.
Built on the site of the Bristol Brewery (see below) in the early 1970s.
Seymour Street

East Cliff conservation area.
Seymour was the family name of the Dukes of Somerset; the 7th Duke was the 1st Earl of Egremont, whose title passed to is nephew Charles Wyndham. Lord George and Lady Seymour had a house nearby at 127 Marine Parade around the time when the street was created in the mid 1840s.
      †Bristol Brewery was built for Hallett & Abbey in 1854, although William Hallett had a brewery on the site from c1839. The name changed to Abbey & Son in 1892 and then Kemp Town Brewery in 1916. It was sold to Charringtons in 1963 and closed in April 1964. The site was sold in January 1970 and Seymour Square (qv) was built on the site.
Ke1845—
Shaftesbury Place Part numbered 10 April 18811.
      London Road Station ppened in October 1877.
Pa1878—
1ESRO DB/D/27/202
Shaftesbury Road Pa1878—
Shakespeare Street, Hove In the Poet's Corner district, this street is named after William Shakespeare (1564-1616). 'Houses building' in Pa1882-1885 and still under construction in 1890. All houses were designed by Thomas Lainson & Sons in 1894-1895. Pa1882—
Shanklin Road All original properties were built between 1897 and 1904, all by George Burstow. Part renumbered 26 April 19261.
      Shanklin Court is a block of apartments around a courtyard on the site of Forfars bakery (see Whippingham Street).
To1899—
1ESRO DB/D/27/78
Sharpthorne Crescent, Hove L-shaped road of bungalows and two-storey semi-detached houses. Ke1947—
Sheep Walk, Rottingdean From 50 Nevill Road.
No thoroughfare.
Ke1973—
Sheepbell Close, Portslade T shaped cul-de-sac off Thornbush Crescent comprising a terrace of five two-storey houses and parking bays.
Sheepcote Valley Open downland that was used for landfill from 1916, increasing significantly in volume from 1952.
The location for the First World War grave site and the trenches in the film Oh! What a Lovely War (1968).
Shelldale Avenue, Portslade Local field name. Inter-war years terraced housing. Ke1947—
Shelldale Crescent, Portslade Local field name. Eight pairs of inter-war years semi-detached houses built around a square with converging triangular rear gardens. Ke1947—
Shelldale Road, Portslade Local field name. Pa1890—
Shelley Road, Hove In the Poet's Corner district, this street is named after Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). No properties were listed in To1902-1903.
      1-39 (odd) were built by J Parsons & Sons1.
      2-42 (even) were built by George Burstow & Son2.
      41 was designed as a shop (Shelley Stores) by J Parsons & Sons3. It is now reesidential.
To1902—
1ESRO DO/C/6/2315 (1 Aug 1902)
2ESRO DO/C/6/2298 (17 Jun 1902)
3ESRO DO/C/6/2533 (26 Apr 1904)
Shenfield Way, Hollingdean Local field name. Ke1969—
Shepham Avenue, Saltdean Numbered 1 July 19651. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/431
Shepherd's Croft, Withdean Housing was built from 1958 on a field adjacent to Withdean Stadium that had this name since the 18th century. Numbered 2 October 19581. No thoroughfare. Ke1960—
1ESRO DB/D/27/358
Sheppard Road, Portslade Built late 1990s (?). Named after the Sussex and England cricketer and Bishop of Liverpool David Sheppard (1929-2005).
Sherbourne Close, Hangleton Two-storey semi-detached, terraced and detached houses built around a green off Sherbourne Road with a cul-de-sac spur from the south-east corner. Designed by Toms & Partners for Summerdale Estates in 19381. Ke1954—
1ESRO DO/C/6/11235 (31 May 1938)
Sherbourne Road, Hangleton Designed by Toms & Partners for Summerdale Estates in 19381. Land was bought by Hove Borough Council from H J Paris Ltd on 21 June 19512. Ke1947—
1ESRO DO/C/6/11235 (31 May 1938)
2ESRO BH/G/4/102
Sherbourne Way, Hangleton Ke1954—
Sheridan Road, Hove Original name of the eastern section of Sheridan Terrace. 'Houses building' in Pa1882-1887; two properties listed and 'no other houses' in Pa1895. Pa1882–Ke1938
Sheridan Street, Hove Original name of the western section of Sheridan Terrace.
      Hove Mortuary was off the north-west corner, adjacent to the railway line.
      Salvation Army Barracks were off the north-east corner.
Sheridan Terrace, Hove In the Poet's Corner district, this street is named after dramatist, essayist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). The section running east to west between Sheridan Road and Sheridan Street was added in the late 1940s. Pi1901–
Sherrington Road, Whitehawk Numbered 2 June 19601. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/365
Ship Street

Old Town conservation area.
One of the earliest streets in Brighton, bisecting the old town north to south. The northern part was originally an undeveloped space called the Hempshares. Formerly copyhold of the manor of Atlingworth, it was almost completely developed by 1776 with 70 houses, to which only another four were added by 1795. It was renamed in the late 18th century after the inn. Number of properties in 1822: 65. A number of the buildings may be refacing of earlier houses. The narrow north end was called Ship Street Lane. Much favoured by solicitors (at 14 addresses in 1851). Renumbered 7 June 19061.
WEST SIDE south to north
—Here is King's Road.
      Holy Trinity Chapel, at the east corner of Duke Street, was built by Amon Henry Wilds for Thomas Kemp in 1817. Here Rev F W Robertson preached 1847-53, as marked by a plaque. It was remodelled in 1885-87 by George Somers Clarke and John Thomas Micklethwaite, with a stone façade to replace stucco, and closed in 1985, finding use as an art gallery, Fabrica. Grade II listed2.
      4-6 was the New Ship Hotel, opened in 1636 and rebuilt in the early 19th century and again in 1933, after which it became Henekey's wine bar and went through other ownership before becoming the Hotel du Vin.
      7 was the Brighton Proprietary School (proprietor Phillip Capon) from before 1845 to c1880, becoming Brighton Collegiate School c1880 (Capon & Son, masters) until c1889. It was attended by the Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in the 1870s. The bays are faced with mathematical tiles. Grade II listed3.
      8 is solicitors' offices, the oldest firm in the town, founded in 1773 by William Attree, who became the first clerk and treasurer to the town Commissioners in that year and later acted for the Prince of Wales. It then became Clarke & Howlett. Faced in flint and brick. Grade II listed21.
      ph 10, Smugglers dates from the late 19th century. Grade II listed4.
      14-14a are Grade II listed5.
—Here is Ship Street Gardens.
      15 and Ship Street Chambers are Grade II listed6. The shopfront of 15, currently boarded over (2023), was designed by Alfred Carden and installed by George Lockyerat a cost of £223 in 188124.
      16-17 are Grade II listed7.
      18-19 enfranchised 10 June 18958.
      22 Lamb Building (formerly Warnham House) was built c1800 as aterraced house, converted into a shop late 19th century, retaining the original shop front, as does 23. Grade II listed9.
—Here is Dukes Lane.
      ph 27 Seven Stars Inn (formerly 21) reputedly dates from 1535 and was listed in directories by 179122, although it was rebuilt c1900 and its preserved décor is distinctively Victorian. Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club was founded at a meeting held here on 24 June 1901. It had an Irish theme as Flanagans and then O'Neil's from the 1970s but reverted to its heritage in the new century. Grade II listed10.
      28-29 were terraced houses, converted to shop use. Grade II listed11.
—Here is Duke Street.
      Fabrica was Holy Trinity Chapel
      35 was called Robertson Hall after Rev Frederick Robertson.
—Here is Lewis's Buildings.
—Here is North Street.
EAST SIDE north to south
      51 (previously 45) was the General Post Office, which moved here in 1849. An extension of c1895 was incorporated into the main building of c1925.The excise office was on the corner of Prince Albert Street. It closed in 2004 (?) and the post office was moved next door until that too closed in 2007. It is now a restaurant and Grade II listed12.
—Here is Ship Street Court.
George Sexton bookshop       53-55 are Grade II listed13, originally terraced houses with 19th century shop fronts, now only on 53.
      53 was James Thorpe's second-hand bookshop from the 1880s, then George Sexton's until the 1980s, right. Currently a coffee house. The tiles-in-iron-frame street name was reinstated in 2016.
—Here is Union Street.
      57 is Grade II listed14.
      58 was the residence of David Black, solicitor, town clerk and coroner of Brighton, whose brother Peter was French Consul in Brighton. It was also the childhood residence of his daughters Clementina and Constance. Grade II listed15
—Here is Prince Albert Street.
      59 has the date 1685 painted above the door.
      Friends' Meeting House and former caretaker's cottage of the Brighton Quaker Meeting was built in 1805 on land bought from a Quaker, William Grover. The meeting house was altered in 1817 and 1845. The burial ground closed in 1854 and an adult school, possibly designed by Holford and Clayton, was added in 1876-1877 and the entrance to the building modified. Grade II listed23.
      59 comprises three shops, two with 19th century shop fronts, on either side of a porticoed door to the residential quarters. Grade II listed16.
      62-64 are Grade II listed17.
—Here is Black Lion Lane.
      68 is dated 1738 with the initials IBM above the door. Grade II listed18.
      69 dates from the 1840s but may be refacing of an earlier house. Grade II listed19.
      73 Old Ship Assembly Rooms was designed by Robert Goolden and opened in 1767, with interiors of the same date by Goolden. The Ship Street frontage dates from c1895. Niccolo Paganini gave a concert in the ballroom in 1831, as is marked by a plaque in the musicians' gallery. Grade II* listed20.
—Here is King's Road.
Co1799—
1ESRO DB/D/27/127
2HE 1380934
3HE 1380908
4HE 1380908
5HE 1380909, 1380913
6HE 1380914
7HE 1380915
8ESRO ACC8745/32
9HE 1380916
10HE 1380936
11HE 1380918
12HE 1380919
13HE 1380920
14HE 1380921
15HE 1380922
16HE 1380923
17HE 1380924, 1380926, 1380927
18HE 1380929
19HE 1380931
20HE 1380932
21HE 1380907
22British Directory of Trade, Commerce and Manufacture
23HE 1380935
22The Builder, 1881-05-14:624
Ship Street Court At 40 (later between 52 and 53) Ship Street.
      No thoroughfare. No properties were listed from 1968 but it is still occupied.
Co1799–Ke1970
Ship Street Gardens

Old Town conservation area.
Formerly known as Middle Street Lane. No thoroughfare.
      7 is where a pit full of late medieval pottery was found.
      13-16 are probably 18th century shops, with mid 19th century shop fronts. Grade II listed1.
      13 was the Mechanics Institution. Among treasures is a 'labour note', the world's first known example of currency value related to work done.
Ke1845—
1HE 1380937
Ship Street Lane Former name of the section of Ship Street between North Street and Duke Street. Co1799–Fo1862
Shipley Road, Woodingdean Stepped terraces of two-storey houses between Cowley Drive and Crescent Drive South. Ke1966—
Shirley Avenue, Hove Build c1956-57. The name comes from Anthony Shirley. No properties listed in Ke1956-1958. Ke1956—
Shirley Drive, Hove Stanford Estate.
      New road, designated 9 November 19201. No properties listed in Pi1921. Layout: July 19262. New sewer: June 1925, July 19263. Numbered c1931.
      25b is a back development by Beecham Moore Partnership, built c2009.
      25c is a back development by Harrison Architecture & Design, built c2009.
      28 was designed by Stavers H Tiltman as his own residence4, one of the first three houses on the west side.
      †Stanford Estate Office was on the south-east corner of The Droveway.
Pi1921—
1ESRO DO/C/8/338
2ESRO DO/C/8/928
3ESRO DO/C/8/776,931
4ESRO DO/C/8/983
Shirley Mews, Hove At 4 Shirley Street.
Shirley Road, Cliftonville Stanford Estate.
      Layout: c1900, August 1903-February 1905, January 1908, November 19251.
Pi1925—
1DO/C/8/59,143,163,830
Shirley Street, Hove

Hove Station conservation area.
Two-storey terraced houses with workshops and shops (some of the later are converted to residences).
      47-51 are on a site where a bomb was dropped during WW2.
Pa1875—
Shoreham Airport While not within the boundaries of the city, this is formally known as Brighton City Airport.
      Terminal building was designed by Stavers H Tiltman.
A location for a number of film and television programmes including The Master Plan (1955), The Big Switch (1969), Richard III and The Da Vinco Code.
Shoreham Road The former name of King's Road.
Shortgate Road, North Moulsecoomb Ke1947—
Sidehill Drive, Mile Oak Cul-de-sac. The city boundary is at the western end of the road. Part of a cluster with the imaginatively-named Edgehill Way and Tophill Close.
Sidney Street See Sydney Street.
Sidney Terrace See Sydney Terrace.
Sillwood Place

Regency Square conservation area.
Built 1827-28 by A H Wilds. Sir David Scott bought the still incomplete development and commissioned Wilds to build Sillwood House as his own residence. Sillwood Park was Scott's estate in Berkshire. The western side was a hotel until 1960 and was demolished in 1969 to make way for Osprey House in Montpelier Road.
      1-8 were designed by Amon Henry Wilds 1827-29. Grade II listed1.
      9 was designed by Amon Henry Wilds 1827-29. Grade II listed2.
      10-11 were designed by Amon Henry Wilds 1827-29. Grade II listed3.
      16 was the Brighton residence of Maria (née Morgan), Dowager Countess of Carhampton, who died here in 1857.
      Sillwood Hall. See Montpelier Road
Ke1845—
1HE 1380938
2HE 1380939
3HE 1380940
Sillwood Road

Regency Square conservation area.
Previously known as Sober's Gardens and Western Cottages when the east side was built in the 1820s. Mrs Sober was the sister of Thomas Read Kemp, who had a house, Western Lodge, where Sillwood Terrace now stands. The west side was added by Thomas Lainson on the former site of Mrs Sober's garden c1870, when the street acquired its name. It was numbered c.1872. Façades on the east side vary in design (eg, see 23).
      3-4 freehold sold for £1,310 in September 18883.
      10 (previously 8) was the residence of the portrait artist John James Masquerier from c1823 until his death.
      11 (previously 9) was occupied from time to time by the painter John Constable between 1824 and 1828. He painted a picture of the nearby Western Lodge. His residency is marked by a Brighton & Hove City Council plaque.
      13-14 are Grade II listed1.
      23 has a front designed by Arthur Loader and built in 1880 by Willam Hackman Jr at a tender price of £3854.
      32-47 were designed and built by Thomas Lainson c1870. Grade II listed2.
Pa1873—
1HE 1380941
2HE 1380944
3The Builder, 22 Sep 1888:220
4The Builder, 20 Dec 1879:1415c
Sillwood Street

Regency Square conservation area.
Built 1820s. Renumbered 6 November 19501. The gate piers and walls to Sillwood Place are Grade II listed2.
      †18 was the brewery of Keeping & CHessman in 1850. By 1854 it was owned by W G & S Ashby, known as the Bedford Brewery and soon merged with the Castle Brewery in Castle Street.
      ph 24, the Lion and Lobster (formerly 27) was The Olive Branch from the mid 1830s until the end of the 20th century. It was also (briefly) called The Rockingham.
      [ph] 45 (formerly 13) opened as York House in the mid-late 1830s and was later The York Arms
Ke1845—
1ESRO DB/D/27/291
2HE 1380945
Sillwood Terrace

Regency Square conservation area.
Pa1878—
Silver Birch Close Private road built by City Partnership Housing in 2015-2016 on a former sports ground off Rowan Avenue as the continuation of Lions Gate.  
Silverdale Avenue, Hove Pi1912—
Silverdale Road, Hove Former Goldsmid land1. 'No houses' in Pi1909.
      Silverdale Court built after August 19631.
Pi1909—
1ESRO ACC8745/37
2ESRO DB/D/27/294
Silverthorne's Mews See 4 Queensbury Mews.  
Singleton Road, Patcham One of several streets off Carden Avenue with local Sussex place names. Singleton is a village near Chichester. Numbered 30 July 19361. Ke1936—
1ESRO DB/D/27/13
Sion Hill Ba1822
Sion Place Now called Zion Place. See also Mount Zion Place. Ba1822
Slinfold Close Post war development named after Sussex village.
Sloane Street Between Freshfield Road and Park Street. It is now the (unnamed) access road to the rear of Leach Court (see Eastern Road).
      ph39, The Rifleman Tavern opened in 1868 and closed c1910.
      ph47, The Cadogan Arms opened in 1854 and closed in 1946.1
      Hills Cottage. 1851.
      Park Villa. 1851.
Fo1848—
1JGC image
Smart's Court See May's Court. [1851]
Smith's Buildings At 41 North Street. Pi1901–Pi1915
Snaky Lane Early informal name for Withdean Road because of it sinuosity.  
Solway Avenue, Patcham Part of the Ladies Mile Estate, named by developer George Ferguson after the firth that forms the coast of Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Named 27 April 19331. Ke1934—
1ESRO DB/D/27/30
Somerhill Avenue, Hove No properties listed in Pi1912. Pi1912—
Somerhill Road, Hove Somerhill House was the Jacobean mansion of Hove landowner Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and his successors near Tonbridge, Kent. See also Nizells Avenue.
      Davigdor County Infant School was formerly in Davigdor Road until the new school was built here in 1986. It was merged with Somerhill Junior School in 2015 to form Brunswick Primary School.
      1-18, Park Gate comprises two four-storey blocks of flats, each consisting of two linked sections, designed by Eric Lyons for Span Developments in 1960.
      St Ann's Well Gardens The lease was taken in 1894 by George Albert Smith, who developed it as a pleasure garden. The pump house became his laboratory when he began film-making in 1896 and he built a 'glass-house' studio in the grounds c1901. In 1903 he surrendered the lease, which went to another showman, A H Tee. The gardens were acquired by the Borough of Hove and opened as a public park by the mayor of Hove, Alderman Captain A B S Fraser on 23 May 1908. The sculpture In Our Hands was made of 5,500 living plants and compost on a wire-mesh frame. It was designed for the Eco-Brighton project by Cliff Wright and Kathryn Jordan and constructed between spring 2006 and April 2007 at Stanmer Park and installed in Victoria Gardens, where it was immediately vandalised. It was moved here early June 2007. See also Furze Road.
Pi1896—
Somerset Place   [1839]
Somerset Street The Dukes of Somerset (family name: Seymour) were related to the Earls of Egremont, and at one time the titles were held in common, the 7th Duke being the 1st Earl.
      Jacqueline Du Pré Court and Evelyn Glennie Court sheltered retirement housing blocks were built in 1994 and named after the cellist Jacqueline Du Pré (1945-1987) and the deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie (b 1965).
Fo1848—
Sompting Close, Whitehawk Cul-de-sac off Wiston Way. Numbered August 19911. Sompting is a village in West Sussex. 1ESRO DB/D/27/446
South Avenue

Queens Park conservation area.
The southern boundary of Queen's Park. No properties listed in Pi1896. Pi1896—
South Parade Former name of 19-34 Old Steine. Co1799
South Providence Place   [1851]
South Road, Preston

Preston Village conservation area (all properties east of railway bridge).
The petrol station on the corner of Preston Road was built c.1972 on the site of the Black Lion pub. The properties that form the southern side of Preston Village Mews are on the site of a former coal merchant's yard.
      The Old Cottage, Little Barn and Mulberry Cottage were formerly a single farmhouse, dated 1636 but probably refronted in the 18th century. Grade II listed1.
      7, 9, 11, the estate office, was designed by Charles Stanley Peach and built 1907. Grade II listed1.
Pa1878—
1HE 1380947
2HE 1380946
South Road Mews, Preston Built c.1998 on the site of the Adas engineering works of Alfred Darling, the pre-eminent pioneer of cinematography equipment, to which he came from 25 Ditchling Rise.
South Row This was where Royal York Buildings now stand in Old Steine.
South Street, Brighton

Old Town conservation area.
Formerly Middle Street Lane. Number of properties in 1822: 17. The original South Street—with small cottage dwellings—was nearer the sea, close to West Cliff and the site of the present King's Road, but was washed away in the 18th century. Ba1822—
South Street, Portslade

Portslade conservation area.
      1-5 Robin's Row are 18th century cottages, revised late 20th century. Grade II listed1.
      Baptist Chapel was built to replace the one in Chapel Place.
      Church of St Nicolas is the ancient parish church of Portslade and the oldest church in continuous use in the area, dating from c.1150. It was enlarged a century later, a north aisle added 1849 and the Brackenbury Chapel in 1869. In 1959 the roof was restored, a vestry and organ gallery added. Grade II* listed2; the churchyard boundary walls are Grade II listed3.
      Southdown Brewery was built for John Dudney in 1881, probably once the tax on malt was repealed in 1880, replacing the malthouse and brewery in Drove Road, Portslade. The tenders for fitting out the brewery are online4. It is now Le Carbone electrical components factory.
      Whychcote was the residence from 1928 until his death of actor Andrew Melville (1882-1936), proprietor of the Grand Theatre in North Road, Brighton.
To1902—
1HE 1292518
2HE 1398648
3HE 1209404
image
4The Builder 1881-02-19:231
South Woodlands, Patcham Numbered 1 July 19651. Ke1968—
1ESRO DB/D/27/432
Southall Avenue, Moulsecoomb Numbered 1922 and amended 3 March 19271. Ke1924—
1ESRO DB/D/27/197
Southall Way, Moulsecoomb Fomer name of Southall Avenue1. Numbered 1922, amended 3 March 1927a. 1ESRO DB/D/27/197
Southampton Street Consecutive numbering: north-west side from Southover Street, returning on the south-east side. Pa1867—1861
Southdown Avenue, Brighton

Preston Park conservation area.
Formerly a section of Southdown Road, renamed and renumbered 6 February 18961; part renumbered 6 December 19062. Pi1897—
1ESRO DB/D/27/113
2ESRO DB/D/27/130
Southdown Avenue, Portslade Ke1947—
Southdown Cottages, Portslade Leading off Drove Road. To1902–Pi1925—
Southdown Place, Woodingdean

Preston Park conservation area.
Named and numbered 7 December 19541. Ke1958—
1ESRO DB/D/27/332
Southdown Road, Brighton

Preston Park conservation area.
'Houses building and unoccupies' in Pa1883-1887. Numbered 19 October 18931. Part renamed as Southdown Avenue in 1896.
      St Ives. 1881.
Pa1883—
1ESRO DB/D/27/87
Southdown Road, Portslade

Portslade Old Village conservation area (1-8 consecutive).
      1-7 and 2-8 were built by Southdown Brewery in neighbouring Drove Road for its workers.
Southern Cross District in Portslade around the crossroads formed by the road south to the coast at Copperas Gap from the original Portslade village (now Locks Hill/Trafalgar Road) and Old Shoreham Road. The inn here was called the Southern Cross.
George Sexton bookshop
Southern Cross looking north from Trafalgar Road.
Southern Ring Road, Falmer University of Sussex campus.  
Southmount, Hollingdean Cul-de-sac off Davey Drive. Ke1956—
Southon Close, Portslade Ke1969—
Southover Place

Valley Gardens conservation area.
From 4 Southover Street.
No thoroughfare. Garages and backs of 83-96 Hanover Street.
Ke1958—
Southover Street

Valley Gardens conservation area.
Renumbered c1864, part renumbered 5 October 18931.
      26 'recently erected' in October 18822.
      ph 50 Sir Charles Napier is named after the general (1782-1853) who captured Sind in 1842 and is erroneously credited with devising the pun 'Peccavi' (Latin for 'I have sinned'), which was coined by 17-year-old Miss Catherine Winkworth. Napier's statue is in Trafalgar Square, London.
      85 Albert Cottage, renumbered 124 by 1865, was the residence of town surveyor Philip Causton Lockwood c1862-
      †Police Fire Station was on the corner with Finsbury Road in the 1890s.
      Victoria Cottage. 1851.
Ke1846—
1ESRO DB/D/27/98
2ESRO ACC8745/14
Southwater Close Post-war low-rise council development named after Sussex village. No properties listed in Ke1954-1956. Ke1954—
Spa Street Formerly known as Nottingham Street, renamed after the nearby German Spa in Queen's Park. Removed in 1898 to be replaced by Tillstone Street.
      †Almhouses founded by Sir Thomas Bloomfield in 1852, later known as Widows' Cottages, survived the surrounding demolition to create Tillstone Street in the 1890s until 1947, having been derelict for some time. They were replaced by housing in the 1950s.
      †Ragged schools were here 1854 and became National School for Boys & Infants from 1873 until 1882.
Ta1854–Pi1901
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Speed's Passage, Portslade Cul-de-sac off High Street. R Speed lived at Victoria House in High Street. Pa1891–To1902
Spencer Avenue, Hangleton Ke1949—
The Spinney

Tongdean conservation area.
Cul-de-sac off Dyke Road Avenue. Ke1970—
Sportcentre Road, Falmer University of Sussex campus.  
Spring Gardens Number of properties in 1822: 52. Numbered April 19211. Cottages on the west side were demolished
      ph24, Founder's Arms opened by 1832 and closed c1926.
      26-30 was the Southern Publishing Company's printing works.
      ph45, Nottingham Unity opened by 1898 and closed c1910.
Ba1822—
1ESRO DB/D/46/874
Spring Street, Brighton

Clifton Hill conservation area.
Built 1820s.
      ph 1 was the Shakespeare's Head from 1845.
[1826] Ke1845—
Spring Street, Patcham Former name for the section of Old London Road north of Ladies Mile Road, running into Church Hill.
Spring Walk, Patcham Former name of Church Street in the late 18th century1, changed from North Back Side. It was officially renamed Church Street by the Town Commissioners in 1792. 11803 map
Springfield Road, Preston

Preston Park conservation area.
The site of a Roman farmhouse was excavated at the corner with Preston Road in 18771. Numbered or renumbered 21 August 18792.
      Wall letter box outside 35 bears the VR royal cipher.
      75 bears a tile-and iron-frame street name sign.
Pa1878—
1Musgrave (2011):20; ESRO MES305
2ESRO DB/D/27/250
Square, The, Patcham

Patcham conservation area.
      The drinking fountain was originally close to Surrenden Field, placed there in 1897 in memory of Juliana Gregory of Withdean Lodge in London Road by her surviving sisters. The lamp post are Grade II listed1.
      8-9, 13-18, 19-20 are 18th century terraced cottages. Grade II listed1.
      Lamp post is Grade II listed2
1HE 1381024, 1381026, 1381027
2HE 1381028
Stable Lane Off North Street. Co1799
Stable Yard   Census1861
Stafford Road, Prestonville Saxon remains, including bones, ornaments and weaponry, were found herea and presented to Brighton Museum in 1893 and in 1985 three sixth-century skeletons were found during work on a house. All houses were designed by Thomas Simpson, except 11-21 (odd). 'No houses' in Pi1888, four properties listed and 'others building' in Pa1892. Named after John Edward Stafford. Pi1888—
1Smith, Paul S: 'Early Anglo-Saxon Burials from Stafford Road, Brighton, East Sussex' in Sussex Archaeological Collections vol. 126: 31-52
Standean Close, Coldean Cul-de-sac off Hawkhurst Road. Named and numbered 3 February 19661. Ke1968—
1ESRO DB/D/27/441
Stanford Estate The Stanford family were landowners in Preston and Hove areas, William Stanford, a farmer (who also became prosperous for holding the Brighton Town Commissioners' contract to clear night-soil and sewage), having acquired Preston Manor in Preston Drove and its lands in 1745. The lineage descended to Ellen Stanford, whose second husband, Charles Thomas-Stanford, was one of the Unionist members of parliament for Brighton and gave Preston Manor to the town.
      Plans for development of the estate were announced in 1870 and the following year, the estate's surveyor, H J Lanchester revealed a revised scheme for the area of over 40 acres between Adelaide Crescent/Palmeira Square and the southern part of Cliftonville, to be deeveloped with 'more breathing room'. An additional 15 acres north and west from Holy Trinity Church in Blatchington Road, between what is now Goldstone Villas and Sackville Road, was also let for development1.
      In 1872 the estate announced plans to build 100 houses a year for the next 15 years2. This, combined with the creation of the Aldrington estate and other building, was a major factor in the rapid enlargement of Hove in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Deom one property with an annual rentl value of £40 in 1871, the estate gre to 526 residences a=representing a total outlay of £2m by 18793.
1The Builder 27 May 1871:409
2Building News, 19 Jul 1872
2The Builder, 13 Dec 1879:1386a
Stanford Avenue

Preston Park conservation area (1-121 odd, 24-120 even, St. Augustine's Church and Hall, Stanford Avenue Methodist Church).
Build from 1880; one house and 'other houses unoccupied and building' in Pa1881. Numbered 1 August 18841; renumbered 19 April 18942 and April 19213. Section between Ditchling Road and Edburton Avenue renumbered 28 January 19264.
      Church of St Augustine was founded in a temporary iron building in 1894 and replaced by the red brick building designed by G E Streatfield in 1896, with an extension added in 1913 by Sir T G Jackson. It closed in 2004 and became an arts and events centre. Grade II listed5.
      Stanford Avenue Methodist Church was designed by E J Hamilton; the contractor was Saunders & Sons of Shoreham. It opened as a Bible Christian Church on 27 May 18987.
      9 (St Albans) was the residence of John George Blaker from its construction 1892 until 1886.
      79 (The Romans) was built for and was the residence of Sir John George Blaker from 1886. Now architects' offices.
      Clock Tower and Octagonal Pavilion in Preston Park, built 1891/92, are Grade II listed6.
      Pillar box at the corner of Waldegrave Road bears the VR royal cipher.
Pa1881—
1ESRO DB/D/27/200
2ESRO DB/D/27/85
3ESRO DB/D/46/874
4ESRO DB/D/27/174
5HE 1380950
6HE 1380948, 1380949
7Building News, 1898-05-27:762c, 1898-06-03:776b
Stanford Close, Hove No properties listed in Ke1937. Ke1937—
Stanford Road Built by Daniel Friend in the 1860s early in the Prestonville development. The section south of Old Shoreham Road was originally called Prestonville Road. Renumbered 17 July 18841, 2.
      48, Highlands was Daniel Friend's residence.
      Stanford Junior School was built 1893 and is attributed to Thomas Simpson but may be by his son, John W Simpson.
Pa1865—
1ESRO DB/D/27/245
2image 1, image 2
Stanley Avenue, Mile Oak       Church of the Good Shepherd was originally a tin structure donated in 1936 by the Vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Dyke Road and Mrs Alice Mary Moor. It was replaced by a modern red brick structure. Ke1947—
Stanley Road, Brighton 'Other houses building' in Pa1874.
      Calvary Church Building and City Mission is, as shown above the door, the former Railway Mission Classrooms of 1895.
Pa1874—
Stanley Road, Portslade The city boundary is at the western end of the road.
      ph Stanley Arms. See Wolseley Road.
 
Stanley Street Consecutive numbering from Sussex Street on the north-west side, returning on the south-east side. Census1871; Pa1871—
STANMER One of the ancient manors and parishes in the area. Occupation of the site dates back to the Bronze Age (c.1500 BC). In 765 King Aedwulf granted the lands to the canons of South Malling and in the 13th century the estate belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Church lost the lands at the time of the Reformation. The name derives from old English ('stony mere'). The village was evacuated during World War II for military occupation and training. It was absorbed into the County Borough of Brighton in 1952.
Stanmer CA Conservation area, designated 1970 and extended in 1988 and 2010., comprising 128ha (316.29 acres). Character statement
Map
Stanmer Avenue, Saltdean Numbered 1 September 19551. Ke1947—
1ESRO DB/D/27/326
Stanmer Avenue West, Saltdean Numbered 1 September 19551. 1ESRO DB/D/27/47
Stanmer Great Wood includes a linear earthwork, possibly Iron Age, scheduled as a National Monument1. 1HE 1343895
Stanmer Park

Stanmer conservation area (Stanmer House, Well House and Stables, Stanmer Church & Well House, Stanmer Stores, The Home Farmhouse, Stanmer 1-16 consec, 19, The Lower Lodges 37/38, The Barn).
Stanmer House and the surrounding park were created by the Pelham family. Sir Henry Pelham. The 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th Earls of Chichester died and were buried at Stanmer. The estate was damaged under military occupation during World War II and restored after acquisition by Brighton Corporation in 1947. The park is classified by English Heritage as a Grade 2 park of special historic interest14.
      Stanmer Church was built in 1838 to replace a 13th century building destroyed by fire. Designed by J Butler of Chichester, it was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 24 October 1839 and sponsored at a cost of £14,000 by Henry Thomas Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester, in whose memory the east window was installed in 1883 (?). Pelham was head of the Church Estates Committee. The font was presented by Lady Emma Pennant16. Among artefacts rescued from the earlier church are the royal arms of George III. The church is Grade II listed1.
      Stanmer House was designed by Nicholas Dubois and built in 1722-27, extending an earlier house. It was altered in 1860 and is Grade I listed. During construction of the nearby University of Sussex it was used as the administrative headquarters of the university from 1961. Grade I listed. The former stables (c1725) are Grade II* listed2; the wall to the south and west of the stables is also Grade II listed13. The north and south Lower Lodge are Grade II listed3, as are the store shed8 (known as Bothies) and the wellhouses in the churchyard9 and between the house and stables10.
      1-2, 3-6 are mid 18th century semi-detached houses, damaged under military occupation during World War II and restored after acquisition by Brighton Corporation. Grade II listed4.
      7-10 are mid/late 19th century terraced houses, damaged under military occupation during World War II and restored after acquisition by Brighton Corporation. Grade II listed5.
      13 and16 are 19th century. Grade II listed6.
      14-15 are 18th century. Grade II listed7.
      Water catcher to the west of the house was built by the estate foreman, Thomas Jones, in 1870-75 and is grade II listed11.
      The Barn is Grade II listed12.
      Home Farmhouse dates originally from the mid 18th century, later extended. Grade II listed7,a s are the garden walls15.
Stanmer House represented NATO headquarters in The Master Plan (1955).
1HE 1380955
2HE 1380959
3HE 1380953, 1380954
4HE 1380964, 1380965
5HE 1390966
6HE 1380967
7HE 1389910
8HE 1380962
9HE 1380957
10HE 1380961
11HE 1380961
12HE 1379909
13HE 1380960
14HE 1001447
15HE 1380149
16Brighton Gazette, 31 Oct 1839:3b
Stanmer Park Road Pi1909—
Stanmer Street Short link road between Stanmer Park Road and Stabmer Villas. Pi1909—
Stanmer Village Medieval settlement to the west of the village street is a scheduled ancient monument1.
      The Barn and Home Farmhouse are Grade II listed2.
1HE 1418222
2HE 1379910
Stanmer Villas, Hollingdean Numbered 27 May 19371. Pi1926—
1ESRO DB/D/27/36
Stanstead Crescent, Woodingdean Ke1966—
Staplefield Drive, North Moulsecoomb Ke1956—
Stapley Road, Hove Anthony Stapley was MP successively for New Shoreham, Lewes and then Sussex. He lived at Patcham Place in London Road. A puritan, he supported the parliamentary side in the civil wars and was a signatory of Charles I's death warrant. After the Restoration, his son John (1628-1701) was created Baron Stapley of Patcham for the part he played in a 1657 Royalist conspiracy. Pi1928—
Station Approach, Falmer       Falmer Railway Station.
      Wall postbox adjacent to the station entrance bears the VR royal cipher.
Station Approach, Hove

Hove Station conservation area.
      Hove Railway Station. The earlier Hove Station was probably designed by F D Banister, opened as Cliftonville Station on 1 October 1863 and still stands to the east of the current station building. It was renamed West Brighton in July 1879 and changed to Hove and West Brighton in October 1894, following the opening of the current building. It was finally named Hove in July 1895. The forecourt was laid out 1905 and incorporated a porte-cochère repurposed from London Victoria. The station is Grade II listed1, as is the footbridge (1880s).
      The ticket office from the Hove Park Villas entrance is in the Amberley Museum, near Arundel.
      Pillar box adjacent to the station footbridge is one of only two in the city that bears no royal cipher, known as an 'anonymous box', dating from 1883-1887.
Hove Station
The original Hove Station, now commercial offices).
Ke1949—
1HE 1187584
Station Road, Cliftonville Former (imformal) name of Goldstone Villas (Road). Pa1882
Station Road, Portslade B2194. The western side of the road only. See also Boundary Road, Portslade. Renumbering in 1901 reversed the direction to start at the railway and head south.
      ph 2, The Railway Inn was here (probably mid-1880s) before being rebuilt 1901, designed by Samuel Denman.
      ph 81-82, The Blue Anchor has been here since at least 1881.
      85-86 is dated 1898 on the unexpectedly elaborate entrance arch.
      87 bears a cast-iron sign for 'The Market' on the upper floor front.
      Eastern Terrace. 1881.
      Garden Cottages. 1881.
      Providence Place. 1881.
      Russel House. 1881.
      United Reformed Church was opened in 1932 alongside the original Portslade Congregational Chapel in St Aubyns Road. The Shoreham-Portslade tramway ended here..
Pa1882—
Station Road Passage, Portslade From 30 Station Road to Gordon Road. Pa1882—
Station Road, Preston

Preston Park conservation area.
Part of the Clermont estate, developed by Daniel Friend. The terrace of cottages was built c.1870 to house railway workers. Originally ending at the boundary of Tivoli Gardens, the road was extended (after 1882?) as far as the back of Withdean Court and the bridge over the railway to join Withdean Road. This still unmade section of road is known popularly as Snakey Lane. Pa1871—
Station Street       †Hudson's Depository opened in February 1869. The entire area is floored with fire-proof asphalte from Pyrimont.
Workers Leaving Brighton Railway Works was film here by G A Smith in 1897.
Census1851, Ta1854—
Steel(e)'s Buildings 'Houses condemned' in Pa1891.
      Clifton Mission Hall, associated with Clifton Road church.
Census1851; Ta1854–Pi1897
Steine, The Now Old Steine. Co1799 as Old Steine
Steine Court Narrow alley of poor late 18th century housing off the north side of Pool Valley.
Steine Gardens

East Cliff conservation area.
Number of properties in 1822: 13. Ba1822—
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Steine (Steyne) Lane

Old Town conservation area.
Valley Gardens conservation area.
Originally the south side of Castle Square.
      1 is the rear of the former Royal Pavilion Hotel at 7 Castle Square. Grade II listed.
Co1799—
Steine Place Buildings The row of properties on the south side of Old Steine, into which it was incorporated.
      8 (now 46 Old Steine) was underleased for 99 years less 10 days at £7 year and a premium of £1,400 on 5 November 1803 by John Hall of Brighton, surgeon, to Thomas Brett of Parliament Street, Westminster, with the use of a passage from the back of the house to the road leading from the west part of the Steine to Pool Lane, with the use of the well and pump behind the houses, subject to a third of the cost of its maintenance. (Adjoining properties: to the west: messuage of Mrs Michell, widow; to the east: 7 Steine Place Buildings; to the south: yard belonging to John Hall by the same lease; to the north: an open road.)1
1ESRO amsgg/AMS6625/2
Steine Row Built after 1776; 15 houses by 1795. Number of properties in 1822: 4. Ba1822
Steine Street

East Cliff conservation area.
Built after 1776; 15 houses by 1795. Long association with food.
      2 was an oyster bar and variously-named restaurant (1930s), Harry's Restaurant (1954-after 1973) and Charlie's Restaurant (1947-after 1973).
      ph 3 was the Sloop (1799). This could be the same as the next.
      ph 4 (numbered 3 in Pa1891, 3a in Ke1949-1958) was the Queen's Head (1845-1958).
      4a was the Old Steine Rooms (1912). It was the Karle restaurant (1914-1915), St James' Restaurant (1916-), then Jimmy's Restaurant (-1972), all owned by Edlin Bros (1921-1972).
      5 was a riding school and livery stable (from 1845) called the Royal Mews, which then became the Southdown Motor Services offices c1917 until at least the 1970s, from which motor coaches left between the world wars.
      ph 6 was the Brighton Packet Inn ( before 1822-1873), then the Aquarium Inn (1874-2014), renamed the Plotting Parlour in 2014.
      8 was the Albemarle dining rooms/restaurant (1897-1920), also in no 7 in 1902-1907).
      ph 10 was auction rooms (1848-). It was the Three and Ten with a performance venue Upstairs at Three and Ten. It became Bar Broadway from 2014 to 2020.
Co1799—
Stephens Road, Hollingdean Ke1954—
Stevenson Road On the site of Kemp Town railway station, which opened in August 1869. Could it be named—and misspelt—after George Stephenson (1781 1848), the railway pioneer.
Steyne Place   [1826-1861]
Steyning Avenue, Hove Ke1951—
STEYNING EAST RURAL DISTRICT Much of the northern part of the city was administratively part of Steyning RDC until 1928, when part of the parishes of Patcham, and West Blatchington were added to the County Borough of Brighton under the Brighton Corporation Act 1927.
Steyning Road, Rottingdean

Rottingdean conservation area (Westview, Southdown, Brookside, Mulberry House, Braemer House, St Ives, Corner House, The Lodge, Rumneys).
      Ewhurst was the residence c1910-1914 of the author Alfred Noyes. Pi1921—
Stirling Place, Cliftonville

Old Hove conservation area.
The south side was called Stirling Terrace until 1888, when the two sides were renumbered.
      ph 3, The Stirling Arms (formerly 1) was built in 1876 by George Tuppen1 for Abbey & Sons (later the Kemp Town Brewery). Additions were made by by Scott & Cawthorn in 18912, by W J Chadwell in 18993, as he took over as landlord, and by Alfred Chadwell in 19144. The name was changed to The Foragers in 2006 but reverted to its traditional name in 2021.
      2-16 (old numbering) were designed by Thomas Lainson in 1878-1879.
      30 incorporates a recessed and partly hidden arched gateway giving access to a twitten to Connaught Road and clearly associated with the school. It originally led to a straight footpath to Church Road alongside the gas works.
Pa1874—
1ESRO DO/C/6/130
2ESRO DO/C/6/966
3ESRO DO/C/6/1875
4ESRO DO/C/6/3958
Stirling Terrace, Cliftonville The original name of the south side of Stirling Place until 1888, when the two sides were renumbered.
      16 was the residence of the caretaker of Connaught Road Schools.
Pa1881–To1899
Stone Mere Way Created to provide access to Stanmer Park and the University of Sussex when the A270 (Lewes Road) was made intoa dual-carriageway..
Stone Street

Regency Square conservation area (south side: 1-6 consecutive, 6a, 7-13 consecutive, 13a, 14; north side).
      13a-14 may be the only surviving examples of fly stables from the early 19th century. Grade II listed1. The fly—a two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a man or boy—may have originated in Brighton.
      Riding Stables. 1851.
[1838] Ke1846—
1HE 1409670
Stonecroft Close, Hangleton Local field was called Stoney Croft. Ke1956—
Stonecross Road, East Moulsecoomb Built in the late 1940s. Most streets in the north of the area are named after Sussex villages. Ke1949—
Stoneham Road, Aldrington Named after William Stoneham of Fenchurch Street, London, a mortgagee and part owner of a piece of land in Aldrington, who, with Rev George William Kendall (see Kendal Road) sold the land for five neighbouring streets to George Payne of Brighton and Edgar Payne of Bayswater, London on 30 July 1900 for £11,3451. No properties listed in Pi1901.
      24-34 (even) were sold by George Payne and Edgar Payne to Bertie Walter Cook, fruiterer, of Brighton for £1,780 on 7 March 1904, who sold
      24-28 (even) to George William Kelley, fruiter, of Brighton for £890 on 8 March 1904.
      28a-29h, terrace of eight houses, replaced a mission hall by Clayton & Black of 19042.
      80 was designed by Samuel Denman and built 1900. From 1904 to 1912 it was Abbott Brothers' mineral water factory, then vacant for some years until becoming Maynard's wholesale confectionery factory from 1927 to 1962. It was converted into seven loft-style residences by Dominic Richards in 2002.
      Stoneham Recreation Ground was opened on 1 October 1913 by the mayor of Hove, Alderman Barnet Marks, on land given to the town by the Duke of Portland in 1911 and was originally known as the Portland Recreation Ground. There is a commemorative stone in the south-east corner.
      Stoneham Road Baptist Church was built in 1904 and the adjoining church hall was added in 1931.
Pi1901—
1ESRO AMS5976/1

2ESRO DO/C/6/2479
Stonehurst Court Cul-de-sac off Down Terrace. Sussex place name. Council housing.
Stoneleigh Avenue Ke1947—
Stoneleigh Close T-shaped cul-de-sac of (dormer) bungalows off Stoneleigh Avenue. Named October 1964 and numbered 7 July 19661. 1ESRO DB/D/27/415
The Stonery, Portslade 'On the Downs'. Market garden and cottage. Approximately on the site of Portslade Aldridge Community Academy, south of Chalky Road. To1898–To1902
Stonery Close, Portslade Cul-de-sac of council flats above integral garages. Adjacent to the site of The Stonery. Ke1966—
Storrington Close, Hove One of a group of adjoining roads named after Sussex villages. Ke1954—
STRETTON ESTATE , Aldrington The northward development of Aldrington, on the north side of Old Shoreham Road, was on land known as Barn Field acquired by Joseph Harris Stretton in the 1880s but not developed until 1909 and later by his trustees. The four roads have the names of his children: Dorothy Road, Gladys Road, Hallyburton Road and Margery Road.
Stringer Way A track, named after Alderman Dorothy Stringer, across the playing fields from Balfour Road to Draxmont Way, past Dorothy Stringer High School.
Strong Court  
Stroudley Road In the New England Quarter development. William Stroudley was locomotive superintendent at the Brighton works of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway.
      Brighton Belle is an apartment block named after the train and designed by Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects c2010.
Sudeley Place

East Cliff conservation area.
Formerly known as Mill Place after East Mill (see below), re-named after Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley, who lived at 1 Eastern Terrace, as is the nearby Hanbury Arms in St George's Road.
      Congregational Church was designed by H N Goulty and opened in 1891, replacing a former chapel that was built in 1868. It closed in 1920 and was converted by local architects Denman & Matthew into the King's Cliff Cinema, best known as the Continentale Cinema. It closed in December 1986 and was later converted into four houses.
      †East Mill stood at the southern end of the street (at the rear of 162 Marine Parade). It was moved to the corner of Lennox Street and Sussex Street.
Pa1868—
Sudeley Street

East Cliff conservation area.
'Small private houses now building' in Pa1868. Pa1868—
Sudeley Terrace

East Cliff conservation area (1-12 consecutive).
10 properties listed and 'other houses building' in Pa1878. Pa1878—
Suez Way A private service road on the south west arc of the Grand Ocean apartments in Longridge Avenue.  
Suffolk Cottages At 34 Cannon Street. No thoroughfare. [1826] Ta1854–Fo1864
Suffolk Place Former name of Cannon Street. Number of properties in 1822: 37.
      The Ergthers (??) 1851.
      Hope Inn 1851.
      Mechanic Beer Shop 1851.
Ba1822–Fo1861
Suffolk Street, Hove Pi1901—
Sugger's Cottages   Census1841
Suggers Court At 3 Upper Bedford Streeet. Ta1854–Pa1872
Sullington Close, North Moulsecoomb Cul-de-sac of semi-detached bungalows off Appledore Road. Ke1966—
Summerdale Road, Hangleton Semi-detached bungalows, designed by Toms & Partners for Sumnmerdale Estates in 19381. Ke1947—
1ESRO DO/C/6/11235 (31 May 1938)
Sun Street From 10 Edward Street to 92 Carlton Hill.
      A narrow street, part renumbered 7 January 18861. There were pubs on either corner at each end, one of which, the Rising Sun in Edward Street, is likely to have given its name to this unlikely street. The bus depot flanked the southern half of the west side of the street.
1SunStreet  2 SunStreet
Images: 1 looking north; 2 looking south from Carlton Hill [RS James Gray Collection]
Ke1845–?
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1ESRO DB/D/27/233
Sunninghill Avenue, Hove Ke1947—
Sunninghill Close, Hove Ke1947—
Sunnydale Avenue, Patcham Numbered 20 September 19381. Ke1934—
1ESRO DB/D/27/48
Sunnydale Close, Patcham Numbered 3 November 19531. Ke1956—
1ESRO DB/D/27/314
Surrenden Surrenden Hall, the former residence of Sir Edward Dering at the village of Surrenden in Kent, was the family residence of the mother of Eliza Roe, who married Sir Charles Ogle and whose family owned land at Withdean.
Surrenden Crescent Only one property (Delmore, later numbered 15) listed in Pi1918-1919. Numbered 30 September 19371, supplementary numbering 15 March 19712. Pi1918—
1ESRO DB/D/27/39
2ESRO DB/D/27/436
Surrenden Field Ground adjacent to London Road, Withdean, where the forerunner club to Brighton and Hove Albion played football. A drinking fountain in memory of Juliana Gregory of Withdean Lodge, south of here in London Road, placed close to the field in 1897 by her remaining sisters, was later moved to The Square at Patcham.
Surrenden Holt Holt is a Sussex dialect word meaning a small plantation or badger's burrow. Cul-de-sac of larger semi-detached houses with separate garage block. Numnbered 23 February 19611. Ke1964—
1ESRO DB/D/27/436
Surrenden Park Named and numbered 6 June 19631. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/401
Surrenden Road

Preston Park conservation area (1-5 odd, St. Mary's RC Church, 25-63 odd, 2-8 and 20-66 even, Surrenden Lodge, Acacia Court, Florence Court, Park View PH).
No properties listed in To1898. Tumber applied for building approval for three houses to be designed/built by Hamilton, on 21 July 18981. Numbered 27 February 19362.

WEST SIDE (south to north)
—Here is Preston Drove.
      3 was the residence from 1908/09 to 1915 of William Ashton Ellis (1853-1919), an eminent doctor (he treated Madame Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy) and standard translator and early biographer of Richard Wagner.
      St Mary's Catholic Church was designed in Arts & Crafts Gothic style by Percy Lamb and built between 1910 and 1921. It is Grade II listed4.
      Surrenden Lodge.
—Here is Harrington Road.
      41, Alsace House is where Princess Mary Despina Karadja—Swedish poet and writer, founder of the White Cross Union and president of the Universal Gnostic Alliance (founded January 1912)—was a long-standing house guest.
—Here is Varndean Road (at 89).
—Here is Fairlie Gardens (at 103).
—Here is Surrenden Crescent.
—Here is Braybon Avenue, where the road turns east.
—Here is Surrenden Close.
—Here is Beechwood Avenue.
—Here is Ditchling Road.

EAST SIDE (south to north)
—Here is Preston Drove.
—Here is Herbert Road.
      Acacia Court. See Herbert Road.
      †2, Horeb Tabernacle, Preston Park Baptist Church was a brick chapel opened in 1914 and closed in 1980, when it was demolished and replaced by
      2, Florence Court. See Gordon Road.
—Here is Gordon Road.
—Here is Bates Road (at 36).
—Here is Loder Road (at 48).
—Here is Poplar Close (at 52).
—Here is Whittingehame Gardens.
—Here is Surrenden Holt.
—Here is Surrenden Crescent.
—Here is Draxmont Way.
      Varndean College.
      108-110. A crouched female skeleton from the late bronze/early iron age was found in a 3ft circular grave on 7 May 1928 during construction of a tennis court3.
—Here the road turns east.
—Here is Friar Road.
—Here is Surrenden Park.
—Here is Ditchling Road.
To1898—
1ESRO DB/D/7/4760
2ESRO DB/D/27/7
3ESRO MES309
4HE 1426315
Surrey Place Former name of Upper Gloucester Road.
Surrey Street

West Hill conservation area.
      19, let at £22 2s a year, sold for £285 in 18722.
      ph 26-27, Railway Bell, formerly the Barley Mow, opened by 1839, and changed to its current name c1860.
      ph 29-30, Grand Central opened by 1839 as the Railway Inn, before the railway1. It is on the B&H local list.
Ke1845
1Ke1839
2The Builder, 9 Nov 1872:894
Sussex Heights See St Margaret's Place.
Sussex Mews

East Cliff conservation area.
No properties listed until Pa1892.
      4 and later 6 were residences of Oscar-winning cinematographer David Watkin.
Fo1850—
Sussex Place Off Richmond Road [now Richmond Place].
Initially known as Hilly Place2. Numbered 26 October 19111.
Ke1845—
1ESRO DB/D/27/262 2Marchant-Sicklemore map 1809-1815
Sussex Road, Hove

Cliftonville conservation area (1-4 and 12-21 consecutive).
Mid-19th century cottages.
Sussex Road       3 has a preserved painted sign for 'H Marsh, Chimney Sweep', right. Marsh moved here c1894 from no 9 (at the south-western corner) having been in business there by 1867. He was still listed here until 1931.
      5-11 were replaced by Hove Baths and Laundry (see King's Esplanade).
      7 had 14 occupants (three families) in 1861. Eliza Billinghurst, wife of a sailor and mother of seven children, has the entry under occupation: 'Does nothing'.2
'does nothing'
Fo1850—
1James Gray
2Census 1861 RG 9/604 folio 128 page 21
Sussex Row Opposite Sussex Place, Richmond Street. Census1841, Ta1854–Pa1872
Sussex Square

Kemp Town conservation area.
Named after the county by its developer Thomas Read Kemp.
      1-10, 11-40, 41-50 are Grade I listed1.
—Here is Eastern Road (at 10).
      11 The sister of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) lived here 1874-1887. He was a regular visitor and there is an incorrect belief that the tunnel beneath Lewes Crescent inspired the idea for the rabbit hole that Alice falls into. Marked by a Regency Society plaque.
      14 was briefly the residence in 1838 of twice prime minister Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell. His wife died here in childbirth. City of Brighton & Hove plaque.
      19-20, Bristol Mansions was the residence from 1831 until his death of local landowner Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol/5th Earl of Bristol—buried on 15 March 1859 in the Parochial Cemetery—and his youngest son Lord Alfred Hervey (1816-1875), MP for Brighton 1842-1857, then his eldest son and successor as 2nd Marquess Frederick (1800-1864) and in turn his son, Frederick William John Hervey (1834-1907), the 3rd Marquess.
      22 was the residence of Thomas Kemp in 1827-1837. It was sold at auction in June 1874 for £1,9753 and was later amalgamated with 21 to form part of St Mary's Hall girls' school. Regency Society plaque erected 1952.
      25 was the first house occupied by Thomas Kemp's brother-in-law Philip Storey in 1826.
      31 was a residence of the Earl of Airlie; the Countess died here in 1845 after giving birth to twins. A local legend in Angus, Scotland told that a phantom drummer was heard at one of the family residences in advance of a death. A guest had heard a drummer when visiting Cortachy castle a few months previously and the Countess left a note saying she believed the drumming was for her6.
      32 was the residence of Lady Jane Peel and her husband Laurence Peel in 1839.
      40 included alterations for Lady Sackville by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the year of his knighthood (1918). (39-40a?)
—Here is Eastern Road (at 40).
      46 was the residence of Antony Dale OBE FSA (1912-1993), historian and author, marked by a Regency Society plaque.
—Here is Lewes Crescent (at 50).
      Lampposts outside 5, 13, 17-18 and 23 are Grade II listed2.
      Lampposts outside 28 and 34 are Grade II listed4.
      Lampposts outside 38 and 46 are Grade II listed5.
Ke1846—
1HE 1380969, 1380970, 1380971
2HE 1380972–1380975
3Brighton Gazette, 25 June 1874: 7a
4HE 1380977, 1380978
5HE 1380980, 1380981
6'Phantom Drummer of the Ogilvys'
Sussex Street

Carlton Hill conservation area (Tarnerland Nursery School, Tower and attached railings in Tarner Park).
Originally ran from Grand Parade (the section west of Ashton Rise is now called Morley Street). Number of properties in 1822: 18. No fewer than 19 addresses in the street have been pubs or beerhouses.
      Kingswood Flats are partly on the site of a Primitive Methodist church (built 1856 and demolished 1950). The Tarnerland estate was built 1931.
      Cottages in Garden (at top) 1851.
      Elm Tree Cottage (at top) 1851.
      Penfold's Cottage (at top) 1851.
      32. Apollo Terrace was off here.
      Tarnerland Recreation Ground (formerly Blaker Recreation Ground) is on the site of the former garden of St John's Lodge in Tilbury Place, residence of Edwin Tarner and family (see also St John's Place, Brighton). Tarner built the tower in his garden so that he could watch for ships carrying his goods up the Channel. The tower and attached walls are Grade II listed1.
Ba1822—
map
1HE 1380982
Sussex Street Mews Cul-de-sac off Morley Street (formerly Sussex Street), to the west of the School Clinic.
Sussex Terrace Terrace of houses now the east side of John Street. Originally a cul-de-sac north of Sussex Street that was extended to Richmond Street in 1905-1909 and renumbered 26 October 19111. The west side was cleared in 1959. Ke1845—
1ESRO DB/D/27/156
Suters Gardens   [1826] Census1861
Sutherland Road

College conservation area (Kingscliffe School).
One property and 'other houses building' in Pa1874. The immediate area is known as Baker's Bottom. Properties are numbered sequentially up east side and down west side.
      George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), ambassador to France during the Revolution, was created 1st Duke of Sutherland by William IV in 1833; a major landowner, involved in the Highland clearances (cf, the Earl of Bute), he was the wealthiest man in Britain in later life. The 2nd Duke (1786-1861) was an occasional, if not regular visitor to Brighton.
      Bute Hall (St Matthew's Bute Mission Hall) was built in 1892 to serve a Sunday school for St Matthew's. The foundation stone was laid by the mayor and mayoress, Sir Joseph and Lady Ewart. With the closure of the church the hall was used as a nursery. It is now in commercial use.
      †St Matthew's Church was initially designed by the local firm of Edmund Evan Scott and Robert Singer Hyde and completed by London architect John Norton. The tender of £10,473 from J T Chappell was accepted1. It was built in 1881-1883 on the corner of College Terrace on land donated by W P Boxall. In fact, he had to donate the money to the diocese, which then used the money to buy the land from him. The church closed in 1962 and was demolished in 1967. An apartment block occupies the site.
Pa1874—

1The Builder, 1881-09-24:410
Sutton Close, Woodingdean Cul-de-sac off Langley Crescent. Ke1966—
Swallow Gardens At 57 Carlton Hill, leading to Sussex Street.
      aka Swallow's Gardens.
      Marine View. 1851.
Br1845–Fo1861; Census1851
Swallows Rise, Portslade
BN41 2AJ, 2AL
Winding road of detached and semi-detached two-storey houses off Overdown Rise built 2020-2021, including some affordable rental properties.
      Mile Oak allotments (81 plots) are accessed from here.
 
Swanborough Drive, Whitehawk Numbered 5 October 1961 and extension named 2 March 19661. Ke1964—
1ESRO DB/D/27/393
Swanborough Place, Woodingdean Named and numbered 2 March 19661.
      Falcon Court is a 10-storey Brighton council block of 57 flats, built by Wates in 1965-1966 as part of the Whitehawk Estate Extension.
      Kestrel Court is an 11-storey Brighton council block of 54 flats, built by Wates in 1965-1966 as part of the Whitehawk Estate Extension.
      Heron Court is a nine-storey Brighton council block of c47 flats, built by Wates in 1965-1966 as part of the Whitehawk Estate Extension.
Ke1969—
1ESRO DB/D/27/393
Sweet Hill, Patcham Land to the north of the A27, between Waterhall and the A23, part of 1,300 acres of downland sold by the Abergavenny Estate to local property developer Thomas Gasson in July 1921, outbidding Brighton Corporation. The land developed as 'plotland' with no amenities or domestic services, selling (often to ex-servicemen) at £10 for a quarter acre. Brighton Corporation acquired the land in 1924 and it was incorporated into Greater Brighton in 1928 under the Brighton Corporation Act 1927. The settlements and smallholdings remained and gradually decayed over the next decade. An abortive plan to build a film studio here was floated in March 19601. The area is now within the South Downs National Park. Ke1934—
1National Archives COU 1/376
Sweet Patch Land 'Houses and cottages on'1. Sweet Patch was land at Baker's Bottom accessed by the footpath from Walpole Road, adjacent to Hamilton Lodge School. A bungalow, built c1890s still stood there in the early 1960s2. The Craven Vale estate is now on the site. 1Census1861
2James Gray
Sycamore Close, Portslade Cul-de-sac of three-storey apartment blocks off Bush Farm Drive.
Sycamore Close, Woodingdean T-shaped cul-de-sac of (dormer) bungalows off Crescent Drive North. Named 27 September 1961 and numbered 4 June 1964 with supplementary numbering 8 January 19701. Ke1966—
1ESRO DB/D/27/405
Sydney Street

North Laine conservation area.
Spelt Sidney Street in 1845-1851.
      ph 9, The Green Dragon was a beerhouse by 1845 owned by Edward Carter, listed as a licensed victualler from 1840, who gave it the name Green Dragon Inn by 1854. It was owned by Smithers & Son, who carried out alterations in 1890, until acquired by Tamplin & Sons in 1929, for whom it was refurbished by Arthur Packham in 19372. It was sold in 1964 and re-named The Office in the 1990s but reverted to its original name c2020.
      17 was let by William Read, detist of 12 Old Steine, to Mr Blencowe in 1871 for £30 a year1.
      [ph] 21 was here by 1854, known as the Royal George (or possibly misnamed as George and the Dragon—see 32) but named the Abingdon Arms within its first couple of years. It closed in 1956 and is now a retail shop.
      [ph] 32 was called St George and the Dragon when it opened in 1856 but the name was usually shortened to George and Dragon from 1898. It closed c1915 and became a retail shop.
42 Sydney Street      42 has a stucco business sign on the south side of the upper floor that dates from the occupancy of John H Doran, dyer, in 1873-1902. The premises remained in the dyeing and laundry trade until the Second World War.
Ke1845—
1ESRO AMS7065/4 (21 Sep 1871)
2ESRO PTS/2/9/664 (28 Jul 1937)
Sydney Terrace At 39 Sydney Street and leads to the corner of Gloucester Street. Ta1854–Pa1867
Sylvester Way, Hangleton Cul-de-sac Ke1964—
1ESRO DB/D/27/405
Symbister Road, Portslade Off Norway Street.
      No thoroughfare. Symbister is a place on Whalsey in the Shetland Islands.
Pi1909—

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