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W	Census districts lists	references
Wadhurst Rise, Whitehawk BN2 5PW	Numbered 3 September 1964, supplementary numering 3 November 1966¹	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/414
Wakefield Road BN2 3FP Round Hill conservation area (1, 1a, 2-29 consecutive).	One listing and 'other houses building' in Fo1856, three listed and 'houses unoccupied' in Pa1865 but mainly built 1877-1880, only on the east side. It was numbered sequentially on 15 September 1880¹. 1-22 were designed by John Dallimore². 23, which is double-fronted and was originally designed as a shop by Dallimore but redesigned by Samuel Denman and built by George Buster³. 24- were designed by John Dallimore and built by John Stenning⁴.	Fo1856— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/199 ²various plans between April 1877 and April 1878 ³ESRO DB/D/7/1650 (11 Mar 1880) ⁴ESRO DB/D/7/1804 (2 Mar 1880)
∫ Wakefield Terrace	Renumbered as Upper Lewes Road 7 May 1879¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/250
Waldegrave Road BN1 6GE, 6GG, 6GJ, 6GR Preston Park conservation area.	One listing and 'other houses building' in Pa1883. Numbered 15 September 1886¹. 1 2 Images: 1. Waldegrave Road looking north towards Preston Drove. Is the boy retrieving horse manure for the garden?; 2. Looking south from Lucerne Road	Pa1883— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/248
Waldron Avenue, Coldean BN1 9EF, 9EY, 9EZ		Ke1954—
† Walls Court	The exact location is uncertain but from its context in Census1851 it was probably a turning off Regent Hill or Regent Row. A Joseph Walls (1742-1819), blacksmith, had an address in North Street (probably 19 Upper North Street) in the burial register at St Nicholas Church. He owned property and specifically acquired land on the north side of North Street from Thomas Kemp in 1803 and sold it to the Brighton Improvement Commissioners in 1824¹. His son, also Joseph Walls (1797-1879), was described as a proprietor of houses in Census1851.	[1826] Census1851 ¹ESRO DB/B/58/18
Walmer Close, Lower Bevendean BN2 4LZ	The name probably comes from Walmer Castle in Kent, which was also the name of a pub in Queen's Park Road (now The Independent). A private road cul-de-sac back development of four houses.
Walmer Crescent, Lower Bevendean BN2 4LR	Spacious hillside development of social housing. No properties listed in Ke1949.	Ke1949—
Walnut Close, Withdean BN1 6RW	Part of the 'Golden Acres' estate built in the 1970s around Varndean Drive. It is one of three streets given the name of trees preserved from the original Victorian villas on the site.
Walpole Road BN2 0AB, 0AF, 0EA, 0EU, 0LS College conservation area (1, 2, 3, 4-28 even).	Several streets near Brighton College are named after leading 18th and 19th century politicians. There are three house listings and 'other houses building' in Pa1867. Numbered 19 November 1903¹. Convent of the Blessed Sacrament chapel was designed by B Harold Dixon and opened in 1913. It is now Brighton College Prep School. 22 appears as a gate in a wall, behind which stands The Coach House, the gardener's collage of Belle Vue Hall (see Belle Vue Gardens).	Pa1867— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/92
Walpole Terrace BN2 0EB, 0ED College conservation area.	Tall red brick houses built early 1880s.'Now building in Pa1870. Still only two listings and 'others unoccupied' in Pa1873.	Pa1870—
Walsingham Road, Hove BN3 4FE, 4FF, 4FW Sackville Gardens conservation area.	Barbara Walsingham became the wife of Anthony Sherley of Preston (see Preston Manor under Preston Drove) in 1624. Thomas Walsingham Western inherited the Western estate holdings in 1766.	Pi1896—
∫ Walsingham Terrace	Terrace of 10 houses on Kingsway between Walsingham Road and Carlisle Road built by Charles W Jackson¹. 'Houses unoccupied' in Pa1883. 1-5 are now 195-203 Kingsway †6-8 were demolished in 1964 as unsafe and replaced by police convalescent flats until becoming the Excelsior Hotel in 1988. It was refurbished as Horizon flats in 2004. †9-10 were destroyed by bombing on 9 March 1943 and replaced by Dorset Court (see Carlisle Road) in 1958.	Pa1883–Ke1949 ¹ESRO DO/C/7/31
Walton Bank, Coldean BN1 9AT	Former council housing.	Ke1964—
Wanderdown Close, Ovingdean BN2 7BY	Cul-de-sac of two- and three-storey detached houses with integral garages off Wanderdown Way.
Wanderdown Drive, Ovingdean BN2 7BZ	Cul-de-sac of bungalows and two-storey houses off Wanderdown Way.
Wanderdown Road, Ovingdean BN2 7BT	From Ovingdean Road to Longhill Road. Large late 20th century housing development. No listings in Ke1969.	Ke1969—
Wanderdown Way, Ovingdean BN2 7BX	Cul-de-sac of elevated two-storey houses off Wanderdown Road.
Warbleton Close, Whitehawk BN2 5GX	Cul-de-sac off Whitehawk Crescent.
† Warden[s] Buildings	Between 23 and 24 East Street. A group of warehouses built by Francis Warden, built on land previously known as Mockbeggar's Croft. No thoroughfare. It is now the site of East Street Arcade.	[1826-1851] Fo1861–Pa1892
Warenne Road, Hangleton BN3 8EG		Ke1966—
Warleigh Road BN1 4NS, 4NT	Originally and briefly called Alford Crescent, then named (probably) after nearby Warleigh Lodge in Ditchling Road. Mostly built in 1878-1879 but 'Other houses building' in Pa1881. Numbered 15 September 1881¹. 3 is a detached villa, designed by C O Blaber. 7-13 (odd) are a four-storey terrace designed by C O Blaber² in 1879. 8-18 (even) are a three-storey terrace (including sub-ground floor) designed by C O Blaber³ in 1879. 15-21 and 23-25 (odd) are a four-storey terrace designed by C O Blaber⁴ in 1879. 20-30 and 32-42 (even) are a three-storey terrace (including sub-ground floor) designed by C O Blaber³ in 1878. 27-43 (odd) are a three-storey terrace (including sub-ground floor) designed by Samuel Denman⁵ in 1878. 28 was the birthplace of Sussex and England cricketer Maurice Tate (1895-1956), marked by a Brighton Corporation slate plaque. 44, 46 (odd) were built as a three-storey shop and house (including sub-ground floor) designed by Samuel Denman⁶ in 1879. 54-76 (even) are a four-storey terrace (including dormer and sub-ground floor) built by John Coleman⁷ in 1878. †Home for Girls. 1881.	Pa1881— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/242 ²ESRO DB/D/7/1660 (26 Mar 1879) ³ESRO DB/D/7/1641 (19 Feb 1879); /1574 (3 Jul 1878) ⁴ESRO DB/D/7/1761 (19 Nov 1879); /1709 (15 Jul 1879) ⁵ESRO DB/D/7/1609 (9 Oct 1878) ⁶ESRO DB/D/7/1726 (26 Aug 1879) ⁷ESRO DB/D/7/1551 (6 May 1878)
Warmdene Avenue, Patcham BN1 8UD		Ke1934—
Warmdene Close, Patcham BN1 8LB	Cul-de-sac off Carden Avenue.	Ke1947—
Warmdene Road, Patcham BN1 8NL, 8NN, 8NX, 8NZ, 8PA, 8PY	Numbered 18 July 1944¹. Patcham Junior School was designed by Percy Billington and opened in 1937 to serve the Ladies Mile Estate. Pillar box near the junction with Dale Crescent bears the rare Edward VIII royal cipher from 1936, the only one in the city.	Ke1934— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/66
Warmdene Way BN1 8NW		Ke1958—
Warnham Rise BN1 8DF		Ke1951—
Warren Avenue, Woodingdean BN2 6BJ	Part of the Wick Estate. It was numbered 29 April 1948¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/283
Warren Close, Woodingdean BN2 6DT	Cul-de-sac off Holtview Road.	Ke1970—
Warren Rise, Woodingdean BN2 6DQ	Part of the Wick Estate. It was numbered 29 April 1948¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/248
Warren Road, Woodingdean BN2 6BA, 6BB, 6DB, 6DD ¶ Designated an Important Local Parade.	The Rape of Lewes, including Brighthelmstone, was one of the properties given by William the Conqueror to his son-in-law, William de Warrenne, who built Lewes Castle and is buried at Lewes Priory. Numbered 8 December 1949¹. The road was widened around the end of 1960. 48 was the Woodingdean public library from 1940 to 1952. ph Downs Hotel was designed by Stevers H Tiltman for Portsmouth and Brighton United Breweries in 1938. The name is painted on the roof, no doubt to attract potential customers in light aircraft. On the B&H local list. Holy Cross Church was built in 1968 on the site of a mission church built in 1941. †Warren Farm Industrial Schools were built here by the Brighton Board of Guardians to a design by the parish surveyor, George Maynard, and built by John Fabian on 20 acres in 1859. Fabian's contract price was £8,223; a further £5,269 was spent on preparing the site and forming roads. Fabian then added the farm buildings for a further £514 16s. Patching & Son built the boundary wall for £560². It was a residential school for children from the workhouse, the boys being taught trades, the girls prepared for domestic service. When the workhouse system ended in 1930 the site became a children's home until the early 1950s. The buildings also housed infant and junior schools from 1937. In 1955 the schools were taken over for St John the Baptist Roman Catholic School, which moved here from Upper Bedford Street, and later were known as the Fitzherbert Roman Catholic Secondary School until its closure in 1987. The site is now occupied by Nuffield Health. Woodingdean Medical Centre and Woodingdean Library opened in 2014, replacing a temporary building that was on the site for 54 years from 1959 to 2013. Downs View School. Woodingdean Primary School. Woodingdean Well, adjacent to the entrance to Nuffield Health, is the deepest well in the world dug by hand. Working round the clock, it took from 1858 until 16 March 1862 for water to be reached—1,285 feet down, of which 850 feet are below sea level. Woodingdean Primary School.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/288 ²Erredge (1862) p293-294
Warren Way, Woodingdean BN2 6PH, 6PJ, 6PR	Bungalows built 1957. Numbered 15 May 1953, 29 October 1959, 1 June 1961, 3 September 1964 (south side)¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/310
Warrior Close, Portslade BN41 2JA
† Warwick Street	To the north of and parallel with Upper St James's Street. It was numbered sequentially from the north-west corner, returning along the southern side. A compulsory purchase order (CPO) was made in 1964⁴. It was demolished in July 1971 to make way for the Hampshire Court flats. †26-34 were cleared as slums in 1936³. †All Souls' National Schools were here. A schoolroom was designed by Scott & Cawthorn in 1887⁵. The school was demolished in 1971². †Kemp Town Brewery malthouse was here. Samuel Denman designed the brewery kiln in 1888¹.	Ke1845–Ke1973 ¹ESRO DB/D/7/2544 ²ESRO DB/B/372/6269 ³ESRO DB/D/84/1/3949 ⁴ESRO DB/D/84/29/21970 ⁵ESRO DB/D/7/2506
Washington Street BN2 9SR	One of several streets built in the area in the late 1860s with North American associations, this one named after the US president George Washington (1732-1799). (See also Grant Street, Jackson Street, Lincoln Street.) Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady was designed for Rev Arthur Wagner in Early English style by William Dancy, using flint and red brick. It opened on 15 August 1864. The aisles and south chapel, adding 200 to the congregation's capacity, and a new choir-screen were added by Edmund Scott, built by Cheesman & Co in 1884 and dedicated to John Keble and Edward Pusey, leaders of the Oxford movement. The tower, spire and vestry were added by F T Cawthorn in 1892, when the stained glass east window designed by Edward Burne-Jones (see High Street, Rottingdean) and executed by [William] Morris & Company was moved here from St Nicholas' Church. The window is dedicated to Elizabeth Austin Attree, described as the parish's first parishioner. A school room was included below the church. The church was stripped of some of its ritualistic trappings for a short time in the backlash against ritualism after 1 September 1903 and further embellished in the decade after 1924. It is Grade II listed¹. 89, The Vicarage is dated 1897 on the foundation stone and dedicated to the memory of Rev Reginald Fison, vicar of the Hanover parish. It is Grade II listed².	Pa1867— ¹HE 1381092 ²HE 1381091
WATERHALL	The area to the north of Withdean and west of London Road at Patcham. It was part of the Abergavenny estate.
Waterhall Road BN1 8YR	A corporation tip was here.	Ke1934—
Waterloo Place BN2 9NB Valley Gardens conservation area.	Commemorates the battle (1815). 1 was possibly designed by Amon Wilds and built c1819. It is Grade II listed¹. 2 was designed by Amon Wilds and built c1819. It is Grade II listed². †10-14, Wellesley House are now replaced by the Phoenix Gallery. †11 was the residence of architect Charles Augustin Busby until January 1830. It was demolished to make way for the Phoenix Gallery building. A Regency Society plaque was removed from the wall and badly remounted on a plinth.	Br1832— ¹HE 1381093 ²HE 1381094
∫ Waterloo Square	The proposed name for Regency Square during planning. It is marked thus in the Wetton & Jarvis map of 1822.	c1822
Waterloo Street, Hove BN3 1AH, 1AN, 1AQ, 1AY Brunswick Town conservation area.	Commemorates the battle (1815). Number of properties in 1822: 3. Numbering is consecutive from the south-west corner, returning down the east side. 1a see Brunswick Terrace. 1-2, Wellington Court was built c1825 as semi-detached houses and are now flats. They are Grade II listed¹. —Here is Brunswick Street East. ph 3, The Kerrison Arms was built in 1828 and named after General Sir Edward Kerrison. It was renamed The Iron Duke c1974, because of the Waterloo connection and, for totally obscure reasons, The Southern Belle c2016. A sign on the side wall used to give its history until the most recent name change. 4-6 were built mid 19th century (4) and c1828 (5-6), and no 6 was converted to a shop in the late 19th century but later reverted to domestic use. Grade II listed². —Here is Lower Market Street. 7-15 date from c1830 and, with their railings, are Grade II listed³. 16-21 were built c1840 and, with their railings, are Grade II listed⁴. 16 was sold at auction November 1908, comprising dining-room, drawing-room, library, off-room, six bedrooms, usual servants offices¹⁰. Waterloo Street Arch, once the entrance to Dupont's Riding Academy at 11a Upper Market Street, was erected in 1877. It now leads to Kerrison Mews. It is Grade II listed⁹ and a Hove Borough Council plaque marks the 1986 restoration of the arch. The decapitated statue on the north side of the arch is that of Captain William Pechell. 22-28 were built c1840 and, with their railings, are Grade II listed⁴. 29-33 were built 1825-1840 and, with their railings, are Grade II listed⁵. —Here is Western Road. —Here is Cross Street (at 42). 45-47 date from c1830 and, with their railings, are Grade II listed⁶. —Here is Ivy Place. 48-64 were built c1830 and the terrace includes two archways (at 56 and 61) for carriage access to the rear. They are all Grade II listed⁷. Church of St Andrew was built in 1827-28 as a proprietary chapel for the Brunswick Town estate to a design by (Sir) Charles Barry on land owned by Rev Edward Everard, the curate of St Margaret's in Cannon Place, who obtained an Act of Parliament in 1828 allowing him to keep two thirds of the church's revenue from baptisms, funerals and pew rents. The other third went to the Vicar of Hove. The chancel was added in 1882 by one of Barry's sons, Edward Middleton Barry, with later embellishments by W H Randoll Blacking. It closed in 1991, its care passing to the Churches Conservation Trust. It is Grade I listed⁸, included in the first batch of listings on 24 March 1950. It is still consecrated but is now used for concerts and only rarely for services. The restored chiming clock was officially restarted at noon on 5 July 2008. —Here is Chapel Mews.	Ba1822— ¹HE 1292418 ²HE 1187696 ³HE 1298652 ⁴HE 1209949 ⁵HE 1209955 ⁶HE 1187597 ⁷HE 1292392 ⁸HE 1298653 ⁹HE 1209987 ¹⁰Brighton Gazette 14 November 1908: 8b
∫ Waterloo Street North	Former name of Phoenix Place. †Tamplin's (Phoenix) Brewery.	Ke1845–Pi1901
Waterworks Cottages	See Nevill Road, Hove.
∫ Waterworks Road, Hove	From Dyke Road to West Blatchington. Mostly the former name for The Droveway, which crossed Goldstone Bottom (a path through Hove Park follows the line), passed the Goldstone Waterworks and continued at the western end as what is now Nevill Road.	Pi1905–Pi1921
Waverley Crescent, Hollingdean BN1 7BG		Ke1954—
Wayfield Avenue, Hove BN3 7LW	Off Holmes Aveue. No through road. The Wayfields were an old local family.
Wayfield Close, Hove BN3 7RE	Cul-de-sac off Wayfield Avenue. The Wayfields were an old local family.
Wayland Avenue BN1 5JL, 5JN, 5LW	Laid out alongside Withdean Woods, within the Withdean Estate, in 1901 by Jenkinson & White, architects in Westminster, as far as Dyke Road Place. Extended and mostly built after World War II, during which the northern section was used as allotments, for which land on the then north-east side was bought by Brighton Borough Council from Mrs Ada Eleanor Rogers on 24 June 1937 ² and from T J Braybon Estates Ltd on 26 September 1938⁵. Plans were prepared by Brighton Engineer's Department in 1937 under the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935³. The north-east side was wooded until housing was developed after WW2. Part numbered 8 July 1950 and 7 February 1957¹. 49, 51, 53 were built by Fieldrose Properties on part of the former garden of 44 Dyke Road Avenue. 71 was built at the north-east end of the garden of 50 Dyke Road Avenue. 95 Wayland Cottage, 99, 103, 105 were here by 1947.⁶ Withdean Woods Local Nature Reserve land was bought by Brighton Borough Council from Elizabeth Caroline Colebrook Gordon Curwen on 20 December 1938⁴.	Pi1927— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/290 ²ESRO BH/G/2/216 ³ESRO DB/D/84/2/4434 (17 June 1937), ESRO DB/D/84/2/4696 (15 Nov 1937) ⁴ESRO BH/G/2/218 ⁵ESRO BH/G/2/217 ⁶OS map
Wayland Heights BN1 5RA	Created on the rear gardens of 48-50 Dyke Road Avenue in the 1990s.
Wayside, Westdean BN1 5HL	Numbered 7 January 1965¹.	Ke1968— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/419
Weald Avenue, Hove BN3 7JN	No properties listed in Ke1932.	Ke1932—
Welbeck Avenue, Hove BN3 4JL, 4JN, 4JP, 4JQ, 4JU	Portland estate. Welbeck Abbey is the seat of the Dukes of Portland.	Pi1928—
Welesmere Road, Rottingdean BN2 7DN	Numbered 6 September 1956¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/328
Wellesbourne	The river that ran down to the sea where the Palace Pier now stands was diverted in 1792 into a culvert beneath Old Steine and what became Grand Junction Road. The river, which could dry up during the summer, created a boggy area in the low lying parts where the gardens are now. It can still cause flooding in Patcham.
† Wellington Place	Built during 1810s next to Blucher Place off the upper section of Upper Russell Street. The Duke of Wellington (1769 1852) had been the hero of the recently ended Napoleonic Wars. Number of properties in 1822: 8. Small tenements. No properties listed in Ke1947.	Ba1822–Ke1947
Wellington Road, Brighton BN2 3A, 3AB, 3Z, 3BD, 3BE	Formerly known as Wellington Road Villas until c1879. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church originally opened on 13 May 1869. It was re-designed in 1880 by the brother of the rector, W Kedo Broder, who died in ain 1881 while work was in progress. A new high altar of white marble, designed and erected by Mr Herbet of Liverpool at a cost of £800, was consecrated in March 1881³. A reduced design was produced after Broder's accidental death by J S Hansom in 1886 but lack of funds prevented its completion. The west front, designed by Frederick Walters, was added in 1901¹ and the north transept and side chapel in 1906. It is Grade II* listed². †11 was the villa residence of Alderman A H Cox JP, for which Arthur Loader designed a coach-house, stables and summerhouse⁴. 18, Wellesley House, a three-storey villa, was a boarding school during the 1860s, atttended by W A Copinger. It was briefly the residence of J C Craven until his death in 1887. On the B&H local list (2015). 20-21 were formerly a home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Barclay House is a seven-storey Brighton Council block of 37 flats, built by Rice as stage 1 of the Wellington Road redevelopment in 1964-1965. Napier House 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. Images: 11 Wellington Road	Pa1880— ¹The Building News, 5 Apr 1901:492 ²HE 1380498 ³The Building News, 25 Mar 1881:347c ⁴The Building News, 225 Jul 1879
Wellington Road, Portslade BN41 1DN, 1ET	Built 1850s at Copperas Gap. Renumbered 20 April 1881¹. ph †1 was the Half Way House by c1858. The current building was erected in 2015. 4-16 (even), 18 are on the B&H local list. 16, Balchin Court, opened 11 September 2013, was the first council housing built in the city for 30 years. The 15-homes block replaced 'outdated' sheltered housing and is named after tenants' representative Brian Balchin. 8-9 was the residence of Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy QC MP from 1852 to 1874. 18 is a workshop. It is on the B&H local list. 20 has the words 'Works, showrooms & offices' painted on the east side. It is on the B&H local list. 27 was the residence of equestrian performer and circus proprietor John Frederick Ginnett (1825-1892). When he died here he owned The Eden Theatre in North Road, Brighton, the Hippodrome theatres in Belfast and Torquay and 274 horses. He is buried in Woodvale Cemetery in Lewes Road in a mausoleum topped with a statue of a horse. ph †35 was the Alexandra. ph †38 opened in 1828 as The Sloop. It was the Crown by 1901 and closed c1969. Baltic Wharf. Timber importers and merchants were here.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/192
∫ Wellington Road Villas	From Lewes Road at the north-east corner of Park Crescent to Franklin Road. Former name of Wellington Road until c1879, it was built at the time of the death of the Duke of Wellington in 1852.	Ta1854–Pa1878
Wellington Street BN2 3AX	†6 was a slaughterhouse from 1909 until 1928¹. Elm Grove Infant School was designed by Thomas Simpson. See Elm Grove.	Fo1859— ¹ESRO ACC 7600/24 Bundle 2
† Wellington Terrace	Incorporated into Elm Grove by 1872. ph 27, The Wellington Arms/Inn opened in 1859 and when renumbered became 53 Elm Grove.	Fo1859–Pa1871
† Wellington Villas		1861
Wentworth Street BN2 1TT East Cliff conservation area.	Formerly known as New Steine Street, the service street for New Steine itself; the east side is mainly the back of New Steine. [ph] 2 was The Globe [below left], which opened c1839 and closed around the time of World War II. It is faced with mathematical tiles. 8 is faced with mathematical tiles (?) [ph] 10 was the Horse Shoe [below right], which closed around the time of World War II and was converted for residential use. Journalist and novelist Nancy Spain (1917-1964) rented the house for a short time in 1957 to write a book. She earlier attended Roedean School. She had around that time been the defendant in a libel case brought by Evelyn Waugh. Images: (left The Globe, c1908 [postcard]; (right) The Horse Shoe, 1910 [Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust]	Fo1848—
† West Battery	Built in 1793 above the beach at Artillery Place (the site facing the Grand Hotel). it was fitted with eight 36-pounder cannons. It survived until removed for the widening of King's Road c1858. The nearby Cannon Place and Artillery Street commemorate it. See also The Battery and East Cliff Battery. Image: Drawing by Edward Fox, engraved by George Hunt, c1825 [in Frederick Harrison & James North: Old Brighton Old Preston Old Hove, 1937]	[1826]
WEST BLATCHINGTON	'Blaecca's western farmstead' (OE Blaeccing tun), one of two holdings some distance apart owned by Blaecca (the other was East Blatchington, near Seaford). This trackway settlement developed around the crossing of roads between Hangleton and Preston, Portslade and Patcham. The parish covers an area from Toad's Hole to the northern boundary of Aldrington. The remains of a Roman villa were discovered in 1818 about 400 yards north-west of the parish church. The manor is thought to have been held in the last 13th century by Earl Warenne, who gave the church to the monks of Lewes Priory; by 1412 it was in the possession of Richard Weyvile and became known as Blatchington-Wayfield, who had been in the area for at least 200 years by then. A century later it was held by the Crown as part of the manor of Falmer and by 1535 was owned by Lord Bergavenny, in whose family it remained until the modern era, the lord of the manor being the Marquess of Abergavenny. In 1835 West Blatchington comprised a single large farm. In 1828 the area was transferred from Steyning East Rural District and divided, 130 acres joining the County Borough of Brighton, the remaining 643 acres being added to the Borough of Hove.
∫ West Brighton Station	Former name (July 1879-October 1894) for Hove Station.
∫ West Cliff	Former name for King's Road between Russell Street and Ship Street. †Western House was sold freehold in November 1861 for £5,000. Image: West Cliff marked on 1836 map
† West Court	Off West Street.	[1826]
West Drive BN2 0GD, 0GE, 0QU Queens Park conservation area.	Western boundary of Queen's Park (cf, East Drive, North Drive, South Avenue). Formerly included the section of Albion Hill between here and Queen's Park Road. Renumbered 27 January 1927¹. 30, Pennant Lodge was said to have been built in 1851 for solicitor Charles Freshfield. However, it was built several years earlier as a Lady Emma Pennant was one of only two householders who lived in Queen's Park c1845-46 (Thomas Attree being the other). Freshfield did not live here until c1854 and remained until 1868. It was later used as a nursing home but fell into disuse and became derelict until incorporated into Queen's Park Villas, a development with additional buildings of flats and offices in 1985. Grade II listed². 31 was designed by local architects Morgan Carn in 2015. Queen's Park Gate was designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1829 but rebuilt in 1890 to mark the presentation of Queen's Park to the town.	Pi1896 ¹ESRO DB/D/27/177 ²HE 1381095
∫ West Drive, Coldean BN2 3AX	Former name of Rushlake Road between Lewes Road and Forest Road.
West Hill	Conservation area, designated 1977 and extended in 1988 and 1995, comprising 22.83ha (56.41 acres).	Character statement Map
West Hill Place BN1 3RU West Hill conservation area.		Fo1856—
West Hill Road BN1 3RT, 3SU West Hill conservation area.	to Hodson's Mill (1861). Providence Chapel was designed by Charles E Hewitt and built in 1894-96, replacing an earlier chapel of 1874. It was originally the St Nathaniel Reformed Episcopal Church and then the Nathaniel Church of the Free Church of England. In 1965 the congregation from Providence Chapel in Church Street moved here. It is on the B&H local list. 9-13 are known as 1-5 Mill Row	Ta1854—
West Hill Street BN1 3RR, 3RS West Hill conservation area.	5 Freehold was sold for £415 in April 1904; it was let at £32 10s a year¹. [ph] 54 was the West Hill Inn, which opened in 1854. It was refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1940 and probably closed c1966.	Ta1854— ¹The Builder, 14 May 1904:533
† West Junction Road		[1851]
West Street BN1 2RA, 2RE, 2RP, 2RS, 2RT Old Town conservation area (45-81 consecutive).	(A2010). Western boundary of the original town; 95 houses by 1776, another 51 added by 1795. Numerous courts and yards with low-grade housing developed along the west of the street in the late 18th and early 19th century. Number of properties in 1822: 82. West side was renumbered 11 October 1938¹. WEST SIDE —Here was Kent Street. †1, West Street Brewery site was bought by Brighton Borough Council from Sir Oswald Stoll on 28 November 1929, with the land on which SS Brighton (see below) was built⁷. ph †9 King's Head, previously the George Inn, is where Charles II stayed the night prior to his escape to France in October 1651. In 1897 it was rebuilt to Samuel Denman designs. Livery stables were adjacent on the north side. In 1901 the landlord was Sam Dalton, a music hall artiste who appeared in several films made in Hove by James Williamson. The PH closed c1926 and the building was demolished in 1933 to make way for the construction of . . . —West Street Cottages were here. †SS Brighton, the swimming pool, which opened on 29 June 1934 on land bought by Brighton Borough Council in November 1928. In October 1935 it became a sports stadium with a highly popular ice skating rink. By the early 1960s it was briefly re-branded as Brighton Palladium, after its acquisition by the Rank Organisation for a new entertainment complex in 1962—Rank had closed the nearby Palladium Cinema on King's Road in 1956. It was demolished in 1965 and the site was derelict (bare-earth car park) for 24 years (see Change and decay; or, Let it bleed). A hotel now occupies the site. †10-18 were demolished in 1933. —Here is Russell Road, formerly Little Russell Street. —Chuter's Gardens was here. Church of St Paul was designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter and built by George Cheesman⁴. It opened on 18 October 1848, the first church commissioned by Rev Henry Michell Wagner, vicar of Brighton 1824-1870. Wagner's son, Rev A D Wagner, was the church's first perpetual curate and then vicar. It replaced a Bethel Chapel of 1830 that was built to minister to the fishing community and, according to a correspondent in The Builder was built with inferior Portland stone⁹. The design followed the precepts of the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement. The tower and spire were added by Richard Herbert Carpenter in 1873-75, while the 1887 narthex and fishermen's institute were by George Frederick Bodley, as was the covered entrance way, the latter remodelled in 1937 by John Leopold Denman. The tiles are by Minton. The stained glass replicates designed by Pugin that were reconstituted in 1990-1992. Grade II* listed⁵. ph 20-22a, The Bright Helm on the south corner of Regency Road, was designed by H E Mendelssohn and built in 1938. Known as National House, it is now a J D Wetherspoon pub. —Here is Regency Road. †25 was West Street Calvinistic Chapel. 27 was the Novelty Electric Theatre cinema (1911-1913). The building was demolished in 1934. 31 was where Creasy's Brighton Sauce 'for tastes accustomed to the Eastern Sauces' was produced and sold. —Bunkers Hill was here. 32, Phoenix Building, also known as Phoenix House, was built for the Phoenix Assurance Company and has housed several other insurance companies, including Legal & General, Equity & Law and the Woolwich Equitable Building Society. 33, Atlas Chambers was designed by Clayton & Black in a classical style after the widening of West Street and built for the Atlas Assurance Company. It has housed a number of companies in the financial sector. 37, Bostel House is named after sanitary engineer and surveyor Daniel Thomas Bostel (1836-1916), whose Bostel Bros business was at 18-19 Duke Street. —Here is Cranbourne Street. —Here is North Street. EAST SIDE ph [48] was the London Tavern from 1877 until 1912. It is currently a fast-food restaurant. [ph] 49 was the Eight Bells beerhouse from c1830 until 1964. It is currently a charity shop. —Here is Duke Street. ph 57, Molly Malone's opened in 1791 as the Carpenter's Arms and retained this name until after it was rebuilt in 1898, designed by Charles Bullock for Edlins. It was renamed Christie's Hotel from 1901 but was still known as the Carpenter's Arms in 1904, when the freehold was sold for £8,000⁸. It was called The Bosun in the 1970s, then briefly back to the Carpenter's Arms and then the Nelly Peck in 1986. It became The Heist around the turn of the century and was refurbished 2011 with its current name. It is on the B&H local list. †59 was built as a Hammam turkish bath, designed by Horatio N Goulty and opened in 1868 by the Brighton Turkish Bath Company. In 1911 it was converted into the Academy Picture Palace, known as the Academy Cinema, apart from a brief period in 1931-1932 when it was the Tatler, until it closed in 1973. It was demolished and replaced by Academy House office block. ph 62 was The Half Moon, originally owned by William Wigney in the late 18th century, then West Street Brewery from 1850 to 1892, William Catt to 1899 and then acquired by Tamplins. In the current century is has been a bar, Pasha, then Boutique from 2012, when the rendering was removed to disclose the original brickwork. Image: Postcard from the 1910s shows the Half Moon on the corner of Boyce's Street, with the newly opened Academy a few doors above. —Here is Boyce's Street. —Ashby's Court was here. —Willow Cottages were here. 76 was the Brighton & Hove Lying-in Institution, Hospital & Dispensary for Diseases of Women & Children in the late 19th century. It is now an entertainment venue. ph 77, Revolution dates from the early 19th century. It was the offices and showroom of the Brighton & Hove General Gas Company from 1882 until 1967, when it became The Queen Anne restaurant, then The Standard. It was later the Ghengis Kahn restaurant and Swifts cockatail bar, It is Grade II listed². †78 was the residence of Henry Thrale, the London brewer and town commissioner in Brighton, who, with his wife Hester, entertained the literati of the day, including Fanny Burney (1752-1840) and Dr Samuel Johnson. The 18th century post, originally part of a fence of seven posts with chains between, on the pavement between 77 and 78 is Grade II listed ³. A Regency Society plaque is on no 77. †78 was the Grand Concert Hall, opened in 1868, designed by Horatio N Goulty and capable of seating 3,000, with room for 400 orchestra and other performers⁶. It was later the Grand Picture Palace (1911-1918), then briefly The Coliseum (1919) before becoming Sherry's Dance Hall in 1920. In 1954-63 it was listed as Ritz Roller Rink (Sherry's) Ltd. It had various names since (eg, Ritz Amusements, Crystal Room, Pink Coconut, HedKandi). The site runs through to Middle Street and the building was demolished in 2021 to be replaced by a hotel. [ph] 81, Walkabout opened as Chatfield's (Commercial) Hotel in 1864 and was rebuilt in 1899. It is currently a hostel, called the West Beach between 2011 and 2015 promoted to antipodean backpackers. —Here is South Street. Chapel House 1851. West Street was first filmed in 1896.It appeared in Penny Points to Paradise (1950).	Co1799— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/50 ²HE 1381096 ³HE 1381097 ⁴Harrison & North: 59 ⁵HE 1381098 ⁶Building News, 14 Jun 1867:415 ⁷ESRO BH/G/2/197 ⁸The Builder, 30 Jan 1904:119 ⁹The Builder, 21 Feb 1846:89a
West Street, Portslade BN41 1PR	ph †2, The Windmill was built on a site adjacent to the Copperas Gap windmill, bought for £750. It was acquired in 1912 by Smith & Co, sold on to Smithers and by 1929 was owned by Kemp Town Brewery. It closed c1966 and was demolished.	To1902—
West Street, Rottingdean BN2 7HP, 7JR
† West Street Court	At 9/10 West Street. Also called West Street Cottages.	[1851] Ta1854–Pi1921
† West Street Lane		Co1799
West Way, Hangleton BN3 8LD, 8LP, 8LQ, 8LR, 8LS		Ke1947—
Westbourne Gardens, Hove BN3 5PL, 5PP	Formerly called Upper Westbourne Villas. Westbourne is the name of a (now underground) stream that runs towards the sea around here.	To1907—
Westbourne Grove, Hove BN3 5PJ	Mews at 85 Westbourne Gardens, formerly known as Westbourne Mews.	Ke1947—
∫ Westbourne Mews, Hove	Former name of Westbourne Grove until the 1940s.	Ke1930–Ke1938
∫ Westbourne Mews, Hove	Former name of Westbourne Place south of the north-east corner..	Pa1886–To1899
Westbourne Place, Hove BN3 4GN Pembroke and Princes conservation area (all east side except 15-35 off and adjacent garage blocks). Sackville Gardens conservation area (west side: 2-36 even; north.east side: 1-35 odd and garages).	The name was originally used for only the northern east-west section, the rest being called Westbourne Mews. Properties on the west side are in a double row and were built for and occupied by fly proprietors, for which the large doors on the street side opened onto yards with accommodation behind.	Pa1882—
Westbourne Street, Hove BN3 5FA, 5FB, 5PE, 5PF, 5PG	Five listed properties 'and unoccupied houses' in Pa1882.	Pa1882—
Westbourne Terrace, Hove	The land was conveyed by George Gallard to the Sussex Universal and Equitable Land Society Ltd in 1882¹. Part of Kingsway by 1933.	Pa1887–Pi1929 ¹ESRO ACC 11225
Westbourne Villas, Aldrington BN3 4GF, 4GG, 4GQ Sackville Gardens conservation area.	Land here was conveyed by George Gallard to the Sussex Universal and Equitable Land Society Ltd in 1882¹. Mostly three-storey terraced villas0. Soem of the earliest flat conversions were here: no 51 (1921)², no 54 (1927)³. 2 was the Aldrington Estate Office and office of the Aldrington Estate Water Company.	Pa1882– ¹ESRO ACC 11225 ²ESRO DO/C/6/4659 ³ESRO DO/C/6/6338
WESTDENE	This could mean 'Western valley' (OE denu) but is actually a developers' naming. The estate was originally designated in the agreement between the developers, Braybons, the land owners and Brighton Corporation as Withdean Estate West.
Westdene Drive, Westdene BN1 5HE, 5HF	No properties listed in Ke1956. Numbered 2 March 1961, supplementary numbering 31 May 1962¹.	Ke1956— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/386
Westdene Park	Heavily wooded area with access from Redhill Drive, Eldred Avenue and Dene Vale.
Westergate Road, Moulsecoomb BN2 4JZ, 4QN	Cul-de-sac of industrial premises off Moulsecoomb Way. No properties listed in Ke1956-1970. Westergate is a village near Chichester in West Sussex.	Ke1956—
† Western Cottages	At 81 Western Road, leading into Sillwood Street. Also known as Western Buildings.	[1826] Ke1845–Pa1872
Western Esplanade, Portslade BN41 1WE Pembroke and Princes conservation area (bowling greens pavilion, round shelter no 1 lawn). Sackville Gardens conservation area (lawns and gardens).	Formerly known as Aldrington Beach Bungalows and Hove Seaside Villas. Informally known as Milionaires' Row. 1a The Narrow House is an infill in the row, designed by Sanei Hopkins in 2014. 10 was the residence of Arthur Bourchier from 1910 to 1925, who had additions made in 1920 by J Barnes & Son¹. Kingsway Western Bowls Pavilion and Western Lawns and Hove Lagoon are on the B&H local list.	Pi1912— ¹ESRO DO/C/6/4520
† Western Place, Brighton	Formerly 131-140 Western Road, Brighton. See description of Western Road below. Number of properties in 1822: 9 (on the north side).	Ba1822–Fo1861
∫ Western Place, Hove	Former name of the section of Western Road between Holland Road and St John's Road. One listing and 'several other houses unoccupied' in Fo1864. Numbered as 64-80 Western Road, Hove [qqv] by 1895.	Fo1864–Pa1895
Western Road, Brighton BN1 2AA, 2AB, 2AD, 2BA, 2DA, 2EA, 2EB, 2HA, 2LB, 2NW Clifton Hill conservation area (115, 116, 116a, 117-129 consecutive—ie, all north side west of Montpelier Road). Regency Square conservation area (29-114 consecutive—ie, all south side).	(B2066). Named after the landowning Western family. In the early 1820s, the eastern section from Upper Russell Street to Clarence Street (ie, now fronting Churchill Square) was called Regent Place and westward from there to (still innamed) Montpelier Road was Western Place¹⁰. The south side as far as Castle Street and the north side as far as Hampton Place were built in the 1810s, west of there on both sides in the 1820s. Numbered consecutively along the south side from east to west and then back along the north side and renumbered c1850; the section between Montpelier Road and Norfolk Road was renumbered 7 July 1882¹. The road was widened in 1933-34 by setting back the building line on the north side, where large new stores were constructed, the first being between Crown Street and Dean Street, thus creating Brighton's principal shopping street. A local inquiry was held in February 1929 into compulsory purchase of properties to allow for road widening⁹. SOUTH SIDE (east to west) 1-28 were demolished to make way for Churchill Square. —Clarence Street was here. †35 was the residence of Magnus Volk and Sarah Volk (née Maynard) c1851². 43 was a photographic studio from 1862 to 1924 and has a north-facing glazed pitched roof (for natural light) that dates from that period. (Cf, 109 below.) —Here is Clarence Square. —Here is Castle Street. 79-80 Midland Bank (now HSBC) was built 1905 and is attributed to the architect Thomas Bostock Whinney. Now a coffee house. Grade II listed³. —Here is Preston Street. —Here is Little Preston Street. —Here is Western Terrace. 86, a former National Westminster Bank (see also 111), was designed by Palmer & Holden, dates from 1925 and is Grade II listed⁴ with the low wall into Sillwood Road. Grade II listed¹⁰. —Here is Sillwood Road. 95-96, including 1-3 Western Terrace, were designed by Amon Wilds and C A Busby and built 1822-1825. Originally called Priory Lodge and The Gothic House, they were converted to shops early in the 20th century, first as part of Plummer Roddis department store, then Debenhams and later a video rental shop and a series of short-lived restaurants. Grade II listed⁵. —Here is Montpelier Road. 103, 105 were bow-fronted houses, built early 19th century and later converted to shop use. No 105 may have been two houses, one on Western Road, the other behind it in Bedford Place. Grade II listed⁶. —Here is Bedford Place. 108 was also early 19th century, later converted to a shop. Grade II listed⁷. 109 was the photographic studio of Henry Spink and successors (1865-c1939?) and prior to that an artist's studio—hence the distinctive north-facing light of the second-storey façade. (Cf, 43 above.) —Here is Norfolk Square. [ph] 111 was the Egremont Arms/Hotel, opened by 1832 and held as leasehold by William Wigney until 1850, then by the West Street Brewery until 1918. After a period as an auction house and estate agents, it became a branch of the National Provincial Bank by 1928, which by 1973 had become the National Westminster Bank (see also 86). In the new century is was variously called the Atlas Lounge café/bar (2009), Bank Bar & Kitchen (2011), Norfolk Bar Salad & Grill (2012) and from 2014 a Small Batch Coffee house, which closed in 2023. A tile/iron-frame place name for Norfolk Square is on the eastern façade. ph 113-114 opened in 1852 as an ale and porter house and was soon named as the City of York, around the end of the 20th century it was named the Duke of Norfolk and was refurbished in 2016 to re-open as Revelator. —Here is Little Western Street and the Brighton-Hove boundary. NORTH SIDE (west to east) —Here is Boundary Passage. 115 (previously 100) was a (police) fire engine station in 1848-1902 (sometimes designated as 'reel hose station'). It then became Capital & Counties Bank. —Here is Norfolk Road. —Here is Borough Street. ph 121, The Temple Bar opened in 1868, owned by Robins and later by Kemp Town Brewery. —Here is Temple Street. —Here is Montpelier Road. 130 was converted from a shop to a cinema, the Electric Bioscope, which opened on 13 January 1909, the first permanent cinema in the town. It expanded into 128 and became the Queen's Electric Theatre the following year, the Queen's Picture Theatre in 1915, the Picturedrome in 1919, the Scala Cinema in 1922, the Regal Cinema in 1932, the Curzon Kinema in 1936 and finally the Classic Cinema from 1975 until its closure in 1979. Waitrose supermarket now occupies the site. 135 Codrington Mansions takes the name from Codrington Terrace, which was here. (See also 5 Medina Villas.) 140, Hampton Lodge was the residence of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington. The Church of the Seers was founded here by the Community of Christian Occulists. 142 was the London and Provincial Bank when built, then a post office from 1973 to 2005 and has had various uses since, mainly as a food store. It is on the B&H local list. 143 is on the B&H local list. —Here is Hampton Place. ph †146 opened as The Wine Cabin in 1892, became the Central in 1901 and closed in 1926. Itw as demolished to make way for . . . 144-145, Mitre House was built in 1935 for International Stores by J Stanley Beard & Bennett, with six floors of apartments above. Numbered 25 April 1935 and 25 July 1935⁸. It is on the B&H local list. —Here is Spring Street. 156-162 was designed by Bromley, Cartwright & Waumsley and built in 1927/28 for Boots the Chemists. (An earlier Boots shop was demolished in the road widening.) It is now Argos and McDonald's and is on the B&H local list. —Here is Dean Street. 163-168 was the first section to be rebuilt for widening of the road in 1926-1930. Pilasters demarking the premises are decorated with flambeaux (now missing on either side of 165) and wreaths and shields draped with swags above and below the entablature, those on 166-168 bearing the letter S, for Staffords, the stationery firm that first occupied the premises (later Littlewoods Mail Order Stores, now Poundland). —Here is Crown Street. 169-174 was built in English moderne (art deco) style in 1931, originally for British Home Stores, and is currently Primark. —Here is Marlborough Street. ph †175, Golden Cross was opened by Rock Brewery in 1854 in a former private house. It was demlished in 1928 but a new version was included in the redevelopment of the block in 1928/1929 and closed in 1955. † 178 is where the Brighton Hospital for Sick Children opened in 1868. Deichmann is now on the site. † 181-185 was F W Woolwoth's store at the start of WW1. It was redeveloped on a new building line in 1933, when ther oad was widened at this point, from which time the moderne fascia dates. H&M is now on the site. † 187 was the residence of Rev J N Goulty in 1852 and the ladies school of the Misses Goulty. —Here is Regent Hill. 202-211 Imperial Arcade building was designed by local architects Clayton & Black in 1923-24 in English moderne (art deco) style and built on the site of the North Street Brewery. It was remodelled in 1934 by Garrett & Son. † 203a was the photographic studio of William Friese Greene from 1905 to c1913 and served as the business address of his two ventures, the Original Cinematograph Company Ltd and Natural Photography Studio Ltd, the company developing colour cinematography. † 205 was the office of The Brighton Times. ph †210, The Maltsters Arms opened in 1839. It was a Tamplins house that survived until 1934, when Imperial Arcade was remodelled. Heathen (2009) was shot here.	Ba1822— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/265 ²ESRO ACC8745/66 ³HE 1381099 ⁴HE HE 1381100 ⁵HE 1381101 ⁶HE 1381102, 1381103 ⁷HE 1381104 ⁸ESRO DB/D/27/12 ⁹ESRO DB/A/1/4 ¹⁰Map 1822
Western Road, Hove BN3 1AE, 1AF, 1FA, 1JD, 1JQ Brunswick Town conservation area (1-81, 82-134).	(B2066). Properties were renumbered c1892/93. —Here is Little Western Street and the Brighton-Hove boundary. SOUTH SIDE (east to west) [ph] 1 was built as the Little Western Arms, opened in 1835. In 1911 it was converted into Hove Cinematograph Theatre, designed by Alfred Carden and opened early in 1912. It was later renamed the Tivoli Cinema and finally the Embassy Cinema, which closed in 1981. It was used for various purpose, including a music venue, a furniture supermarket and a Laser Warriors adventure game site until finally becoming an amusement arcade. Plans to turn it into a lap-dancing club in 2003 were rejected after concerted opposition. The entrance area became a coffee house in 2006. The auditorium was demolished in July 2007 and replaced by housing. A plaque marking the Brighton-Hove boundary [right] has disappeared from the eastern façade. —Here is Waterloo Street. —Here is Upper Market Street. 20 is attributed to Wilds and Busby, built 1824-1830. Grade II listed¹. ph 21, Paris House opened in 1848 as the Western Tavern and was known as the Western Hotel by 1898. It was called The Juggler 1990-1997, then Blimey O'Reilly's before reverting to The Juggler in 2002 until 2011, when it acquired its current name (aka Le Pub). It is on the B&H local list. —Here is Brunswick Street East. 30A, 31B, 31C are Grade II listed² with 2-8 Brunswick Place. —Here is Brunswick Place. ph 39, The Freemasons. The pub was originally built in 1871 for C H (Charles Henry) Gausden, proprietor of the Royal Brunswick cricket ground in Hove (see Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue) and probably the second heaviest cricketer ever at 22 stone 10 lbs (145 kg) in 1847. The restaurant was added in 1928 by John Leopold Denman for the Kemp Town Brewery (the name is in mosaic lettering) in a contrasting art deco style, with Masonic imagery in the decoration. Grade II listed⁴. —Here is Brunswick Street West. 44-47 are Grade II listed⁵ with 2-48 Lansdowne Place. —Here is Lansdowne Place. Pillar box at the south-west corner of the junction with Lansdowne Place bears the VR royal cipher. 51-59. William Hill's drapery store [right] was at no 58 from 1893, expanding over the years into adjacent premises: adding 56-57 by 1901, 59 in 1904, 51 in 1907, 50 and 55 in 1908 but 52-54 were not acquired until 1933, when the premises were rebuilt, or at least re-fronted, in a coherent block. A mosaic with the name 'William Hill Hove Ltd' in the pavement at the Lansdowne Road corner commemorates the store. Now separate shops. the group is on the B&H local list. Image: RS James Gray Collection †55 was the chemist's/photographic business of cinema pioneer James Williamson (1855-1933), moved from 144 Church Road, from September 1898 until 1904. From 1905 to c1910 it was the photographic dealer shop of Sanders & Crowhurst (from 1908 Crowhurst alone) and the headquarters of the Hove Camera Club (at 55a). Crowhurst was Williamson's son-in-law. ph 62-63, The Wick was built in 1873 to replace a previous thatched pub that had been on the site for a considerable time, associated with an early cricket ground known in the 1940s as Jem Nye's Ground. Grade II listed⁶. —Here is Holland Road. 64-80 were formerly known as Western Place, renumbered with Western Road by 1895. 64 Premises of the Hove Banking Company and the final Brighton residence of Amy Sedgwick (Mrs Charles Goostry), known as Bank Lodge in 1881. By 1895 it had become the London and County Bank. Now a restaurant. It is on the B&H local list. 68-72 and 71a were built c1865 as a row of shops, mostly retaining the original shop fronts, effectively being the ground floor of 17 Palmeira Square. Grade II listed⁷. 69 see 120. —Here is Palmeira Square. 73-76 and 73a were built c1865 as a row of shops, all retaining the original shop fronts, effectively being the ground floor of 18 Palmeira Square. Grade II listed⁸. 79,80 are believed to have been designed by Charles Nye. NORTH SIDE (west to east) —Here is Holland Road. 82, Palmeira House was designed by Thomas Lainson & Sons. It was best known as Maple's store and before that Hill's, dated 1873 on the corner with Lansdowne Street, although built originally as a hotel in the previous decade. The date is when the building was taken over by the Hove Co-operative Supply Association as Palmeira Stores. Now a supermarket and antiques emporium⁹. Grade II listed¹⁰. —Here is Lansdowne Street. 86-87 have the original shopfronts and are Grade II listed¹¹. 88-90 are Grade II listed¹² with 59-127 Lansdowne Place. —Here is Lansdowne Place. 99-100 have the original shop fronts; 100 is on the B&H local list. —Here is Farm Road. 107-109 are Grade II listed¹³ with 9-69 Brunswick Place; 107 has the original shop front. —Here is Brunswick Place. 110 is Grade II¹⁴ listed with 10-70 Brunswick Place. 111 (formerly 65) was the first Turkish bath opened in Brighton and Hove by Dr A D M Toulmin c1792. It closed by the time the Hammam Turkish baths opened in West Street in 1865. —Here is Cambridge Road. 120 (formerly 69) was the photographic studio of the partnership of Esmé Collings and cinema pioneer William Friese Greene from 1887. It remained Esmé Collings' studio following his break-up with Friese Greene (see also 20 Middle Street and 203a Western Road, Brighton), from 1888 until c.1916. Collings was the first local film-maker with a brief career in 1896-97 (see also 13 Alexandra Villas and 59 Dyke Road). 124, 125 are Grade II listed³ with 1-30 Brunswick Road. —Here is Brunswick Road. —Here is York Road. —Here is Boundary Passage.	Ke1845— ¹HE 1398614 ²HE 1204756 ³HE 1187543 ⁴HE 1292378 ⁵HE 1187570 ⁶HE 1392346 ⁷HE 1187599 ⁸HE 1210043 ⁹Lyons: 22 ¹⁰HE 1298615 ¹¹HE 1210050 ¹²HE 1187573 ¹³HE 1204771 ¹⁴HE 1298669
Western Street BN1 2PG Regency Square conservation area.	Built 1810s. Embassy Court see King's Road. 5 is Grade II listed¹. 14 Everton Place was here. ph 16, Grosvenor Bar was opened as The Western Star by Tamplins in 1872 in a former eating house. [ph] 18 was The Pagoda Tavern from 1864. It is now residemntial. ph 30, The Bedford Tavern opened in the late 1830s as The Queen's Head but, owned by Kemp Town Brewery, had its current name by 1845. 31 is Grade II listed².	Ba1822— ¹HE 1381105 ²HE 1381103
Western Terrace BN1 2LD Regency Square conservation area.	Built 1831. Amon Henry Wilds built the terrace and lived here. 1-3 are Grade II listed¹ with 95-96 Western Road, Brighton. 4-7a are Grade II listed² with Sillwood Hall (see Montpelier Road). 8a was formerly a mid-19th-century coach house. Grade II listed³. 9, Western Pavilion was the residence of Amon Henry Wilds, which he designed and built 1827-28. It is Grade II* listed⁴ and marked with a Brighton Corporation slate plaque.	Ke1846— ¹HE 1381101 ²HE 1381590 ³HE 1381107 ⁴HE 1381108
Westfield Avenue, Saltdean BN2 8HU, 8HW	Bungalows. Numbered 1 September 1955¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/326
Westfield Avenue North, Saltdean BN2 8HP, 8HQ, 8HS	Continuation of Westfield Avenue on the north side of the green. Bungalows. Supplementary numbering 7 June 1960 and 3 January 1962¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/374
Westfield Avenue South, Saltdean BN2 8HT	Continuation of Westfield Avenue on the south side of the green. Bungalows Numbered 1 September 1955¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/326
Westfield Close BN1 8EN	Numbered 1 May 1947¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/274
Westfield Crescent, Withdean BN1 8JA, 8JB	Named 5 April 1938¹. Renumbered 1 May 1947 and 31 January 1952².	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/41 ²ESRO DB/D/27/273
† Westfield Gardens	Two houses in King's Road and a garden approached by an alley at 109 King's Road and also accessible from Queensbury Mews and St Margaret's Place. It was numbered in King's Road by 1867. A house called Westfield Lodge was nearby at 112 King's Road. It was lost when the Metropole Hotel was built.	Fo1848–Fo1864
Westmeston Avenue, Saltdean BN2 8AL, 8AN	Westmeston is a downland village north of Brighton. Numbered 2 March 1961¹.	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/387
Westway Close, Mile Oak BN41 2RT	Cul-de-sac off Westway Gardens.	Ke1964—
Westway Gardens, Mile Oak BN41 2RU		Ke1964—
Wharf Road, Hove		Ke1934—
Wheatfield Way, Moulsecoomb BN2 4RQ	Cul-de-sac off Staplefield Drive. Hm. Could there have once been a wheat field hereabouts?	Ke1968—
Whichelo Place BN2 0XE, 9XF	Street numbered 20 April 1881², when it was first listed with the spelling Wichelo¹, which did not change until 1887. The Whichelo family were local brewers and landowners. [ph] 1 was the Whichelo Arms, opened c1890 and closed 1933. It is now residential. 1a is a back development of a highly-insulated timber-frame 'Eco Homes' bungalow designed by Simon Atkins of Abir Architects and built in 2007. It has won several architectural and environmental awards. 35-43 and 45-67 were designed by Samuel Denman for Tucker⁴. [ph] 71 was The Beaufort Kennels from c1887 but closed by the mid 1890s. It is now residential. 75-79 (odd) were designed by Samuel Denman⁵ and built by Charles Banks c1880³.	Pa1871— ¹Pa1881 ²ESRO DB/D/27/222 ³ESRO ACC8745/40 ⁴ESRO DB/D/7/1955 (5 Jan 1881), DB/D/7/1821 (6 Apr 1880) ⁵ESRO DB/D/7/1739 (7 Oct 1879)
Whipping Post Lane, Rottingdean BN2 7HZ Rottingdean conservation area.	Renamed from East Lane 27 July 1933 and 9 November 1933¹. Whipping Post House dates from the 18th century. Grade II listed².	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/26 ²HE 1381109
Whippingham Road BN2 3PE, 3PG, 3PZ	From Hartington Road to 151 Elm Grove. No houses listed in To1893. Numbered 15 September 1886¹; renumbering proposed by Mr Friend 10 March 1891 and 20 August 1898 and renumbered 18 August 1898 (southern or western side)² and 16 July 1903³. ph 41, The Hartington (Hotel) was designed by Scott & Cawthorn in 1896 for Abbey (Kemp Town Brewery)⁴. It was refurbished by Cawthorn in 1927.	To1893— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/263 ²ESRO DB/D/27/118 ³ESRO DB/D/27/106 ⁴ESRO DB/D/7/4285
Whippingham Street BN2 3LL	From Whippingham Road to Brading Road. No houses listed in To1893 and Pa1895. †Bakery of Forfars (1942) Ltd was on the west side between Bembridge Street and Shanklin Road, the site now occupied by Shanklin Court.	To1893—
White Street BN2 0JH	Built commercially 1895-99 to designs by Francis May, borough surveyor, on the site of slum housing inThomas Street, Chesterfield Street, Cumberland Street and Derby Place (see also Blaker Street). Named after Cllr Edward White, chairman of the Brighton Corporation Sanitary Committee. Numbered 4 February 1897¹. 2-12 (even) towards the south-eastern end were destroyed by bombing on 18 September 1940 with the loss of 11 lives [below].	To1898— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/230
Whitecross Street BN1 4DZ, 4UP North Laine conservation area (1-2 Whitecross Buildings).	Properties were compulsorily purchased and the roadway widened in the late 1960s as the first stage in the creation of an unfulfilled alternative north-south route to relieve traffic in London Road. ph †35, The Woodman's Cot was a beerhouse, opened by 1845 and closed by 1911.	Ke1845—
WHITEHAWK	(also as two words). Hilly area east of Brighton. First recorded 1587 as White Hawke Hill, the site of a neolithic camp on a downland causeway. One possible derivation of the name is from wied ac, meaning 'holy oak' and suggesting Druidical associations¹. White Hawk Fair was traditionally held on the Down above the Sussex County Hospital on the first Sunday in August². Low density council housing was built in 1933-1937 to re-house people from Carlton Hill slums (for which South Moulsecoomb had originally been intended). All the 1,200 houses had gardens. The 1938 map of the area shows the original layout of the housing estate. The area developed a reputation for social problems from the 1960s onward. The layout of the area was substantially altered from 1975, the longer roads being cleared to make way for clusters of housing in cul-de-sacs, increasing the number of houses to 1,400. It continued to be one of the most deprived areas in the country. A modern-dress version of Richard III (2005) was shot here.	¹Rev Edward Turner: 'On the military earthworks of the Southdowns' in Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol III (London: John Russell Smith, 1850) ²Frederick Ernest Sawyer: 'Sussex folk-lore and customs connected with the seasons' in Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol 33 (Lewes: H W Wolff, 1883)
Whitehawk Close, Whitehawk BN2 5ET		Ke1937—
Whitehawk Crescent, Whitehawk BN2 5FD, 5FE, 5FF	Part numbered 11 June 1980¹.	Pi1929— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/445
Whitehawk Hill Road BN2 0AH, 0YQ	Using the district name, although the road is some way west of the district itself, leading to a neolithic camp site. No properties listed in Ke1920-1958. St John the Baptist Roman Catholic School opened in 1988 to replace the one in Upper Bedford Street.	Ke1920—
Whitehawk Road BN2 5FA, 5FG, 5FY, 5FZ, 5GA	The road was numbered 1 June 1933².Numbers are sequential from the south-west corner, returning down the east side.The road marked the parliamentary borough boundary and was developed only on the west side WEST SIDE (south to north) 1-40 (shops) were designed by Samuel Denman for William Henry Hallett³. This was the full extent of development by 1909. —Here is Manor Way. Robert Lodge South comprises nine one-bedroom flats, opened March 2016, on the site of the former Manor Place Housing Office. Robert Lodge North—see Manor Way. —Here is Manor Way. —Here is Whitehawk Crescent. —At 111-114 the road turns west and then north-west. —Here is Hellingly Close. —Here is Lower Chalvington Place. —The road ends in a track leading to Coolham Drive. EAST SIDE (north to south) City Academy Whitehawk opened in 1933 as Whitehawk Senior Boys' and Girls' School. Hobby Place is two three-storey blocks of 29 council flats on a previously empty site, opened on 19 October 2018. —Here is Hellingly Close. —Here is Whitehawk Way. —Here is The Meadway. Kite Place is two five-storey blocks of 57 council flats—the smaller eastern block is in Findon Road. It was built on the site of the former Whitehawk Library (demolished 2012) by Westridge Construction and opened in May 2018. It was shortlisted for 'best affordable housing scheme' in the Inside Housing Development Awards 2018. —Here is Findon Road. —Here is Marlow Road.> [ph] Whitehawk Inn Training Centre was designed by John Leopold Denman and opened in 1938. It closed in 1997 and became a community centre. Brighton Waldorf School. See John Howard House in Roedean Road. Boundary stone from the 19th century at the corner of Roedean Road bearing the letters BP is Grade II listed¹.	Pa1883— ¹HE 1381110 ²ESRO DB/D/27/29 ³ESRO DB/D/7/1880 (26 Jul 1880)
Whitehawk Way BN2 5HB, 5HD, 5HE, 5LW, 5NT, 5QL, 5RS	Part numbering 3 August 1983, 18 August 1983 and September 1984¹, 6 January 1988, 12 January 1990, 21 March 1990, 13 June 1991². St Cuthman's Church, also known as the Children's Church, was designed by J L Denman in red brick with a pantiled roof. It opened in 1952, replacing a church that was destroyed by wartime bombing on 16 August 1943.	Ke1949–Ke1958 ¹ESRO DB/D/27/445 ²ESRO DB/D/27/446
Whitethorn Drive, Westdene BN1 5LH	Revised numbering 3 November 1960¹.	Ke1960— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/381
Whiteway Lane, Rottingdean BN2 7HB Rottingdean conservation area (Whiteway Community Centre, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, St Margaret's CofE School).	Follows the line of the track that led from Rottingdean to Saltdean, which continues as a footpath to Bishopstone Drive. Our Lady of Lourdes, Queen of Peace Church was designed by Henry Bingham Towner (1909-1997) and cost £25,000. It was consecrated on 10 September 1958. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School opened on 27 June 1969. Former studio in the school grounds was designed c1920 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for lawyer Sir George Lewis. Grade II listed¹. Whiteway Community Centre was designed by Michael Blee and Partners in 1974. It on the B&H local list.	Ke1966— ¹HE 1381111
Whittingehame Gardens, Surrenden BN1 6PU	Two-storey terraces built around oval wooded gardens. Named 4 August 1965, numbered 24 November 1966¹.	Ke1968— ESRO DB/D/27/436
THE WICK	Area to the north of the Brunswick Estate, where Furze Hill now stands. Here was Wick House, the residence of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, and Wick Hall, where Major Way resided.
WICK BOTTOM	East Brighton Golf Course (see Roedean Road) is here.
WICK ESTATE, Hove	Owned by the Stapley family from the mid 16th century until 1701, the land was then bought by John Scutt of Brighthelmstone, whose great-grandson, Rev Thomas Scutt sold it to Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid in 1830. Goldsmid commission architect Decimus Burton to plan an estate of housing to be named after Queen Adelaide. As well as Goldsmid, his family gave various names to roads in the area: Davigdor, Isabel, Julian, Osmond, Palmeira, Somerhill. The principal architect for later buillding was Thomas Lainson
WICK ESTATE. Woodingdean	Comprises Baywood Gardens, Channel View Road, Downsview Avenue, Farmhill, Helena Road, Holtview Road, Ivor Road, McWilliam Road, Midway Road, Rosebery Avenue, Seaview Road, Vernon Avenue, Warren Avenue and Warren Rise.
∫ Wick Lane	Name until 1834 of Lansdowne Place.
∫ Wick Road	Name until the 1850s of Montpelier Place and Lansdowne Road.	Fo1848–Fo1850 1850 map
† Wick Street		1826
Wickhurst Close, Portslade BN41 2TG	Cul-de-sac off Wickhurst Road.	Ke1964—
Wickhurst Rise, Portslade BN41 2PF, 2WA, 2WB		Ke1964—
Wickhurst Road, Portslade BN41 2TE, 2TF		Ke1964—
Wicklands Avenue, Saltdean	56, 57 and 62 were designed by Connell, Ward & Lucas and built in 1934.
Widdicombe Way, Moulsecoomb BN2 4TG, 4TH, 4TJ	Numbered 28 January 1932¹. 12 was the residence of the prolific playwright and screenwriter Constance Cox (1912-1998).	Ke1932— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/75
Wigmore Close, Hollingbury BN1 7EB	Cul-de-sac off Horton Road.	Ke1954—
Wilbury Avenue, Hove BN3 6FX, 6GH, 6GJ, 6HR, 6HJ	The name is believed to derive from the Wiltshire village whence came one of the first purchasers of a building plot on the Stanford estate.	Pa1893—
Wilbury Crescent, Hove BN3 6FH, 6FJ, 6FL, 6FT	Follows the curve of the Cliftonville Spur of the LB&SCR. No properties listed in Pi1896. Renumbered 1925. 7 was the residence, designed in 1903 by Denman & Matthew¹ of the artists Charles H H Burleigh, his wife Averil Burleigh and their daughter Veronica Burleigh. The house, with a north-light top-floor studio, was built for the Burleighs in the 1920s. Several of his paintings are in Brighton Art Gallery, including one of the interior. Another artist, Albert Williams (1922-2010) later occupied the house. Image: 'The Burleigh Family Taking Tea at Wilbury Crescent, Hove' (c1947) [Geffrye Museum of the Home]	Pi1896— ¹ESRO DO/C/6/2483 (17 Nov 1903)
Wilbury Gardens, Hove BN3 6HQ, 6HY		Pi1896—
Wilbury Grange, Hove	See Wilbury Road.
Wilbury Grove, Hove BN3 3JQ Willett Estate conservation area.	Mews. Originally Wilbury Mews and then Wilbury Stables (qv below), now a private road. After motor cars supplanted horses, the mews returned to equine use in the late 1920s until after World War II. 2, Victoria Riding Stables was here from 1927 to 1949. 13, Royal Riding Stables was here from 1930 to 1949.	Pi1914—
Wilbury Lodge, Hove	See Wilbury Road.
Wilbury Mansions, Hove BN3 6SE	At 39-41 Wilbury Villas.
Wilbury Mews, Hove	From 9 Wilbury Road to Eaton Road. The original name of Wilbury Grove. The mews was built by Willett Building Company in the mid 1880s. It was also called Wilbury Stables (qv below) from 1901. Wilbury [Livery] Stables Company, also known as the Eaton Riding School, was here 1889-1909 and initially occupied the whole mews.	To1898–To1907
Wilbury Road, Hove BN3 3GL, 3GN, 3GP The Drive conservation area (Vicarage). Willett Estate conservation area (all except Vicarage).	Under construction c1877/78. †Melrose Hall was built on former Rigden Farm land. It was lent by Major Frank Johnson towards the end of WW1 as a convalescent home for New Zealand nursing sisters, with 30 patients and a staff of 10.⁵ It was put up for sale in 1927. In 1936 conversion into a theatre and flats was proposed, to be designed by Verity & Beverley¹¹ but not built—one of the lost theatres of Hove. The site is now occupied by Harewood Court , which was designed in three sections by Denman & Son for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution: a block of 104 flats witha lounge, committee rooms, wards, etc, designed in 1947⁷, another block in 1953 of 28 flats to complete the eastern wing⁸; then in 1954 the western wing of 53 flats, four wards and matron's offices and a northern wing of a lounge, canteen, kitchen and toilet accommodation⁹. It was built in 1956 and is on the B&H local list. 22 All Saint's Vicarage was designed by J L Pearson for Rev Thomas Peacey in 1883. Grade II listed¹, as are its garden wall and gate pillars¹⁰. 44 (Wilbury Lawn) was designed by J L Ball of Birmingham in Queen Anne Revival style for Colonel S Wishart. It is Grade II listed². 68 was the final residence of Sir Walter Frederick Miéville, who died here.⁴ Wilbury Grange was designed by Joseph Hill and built in 1937-38 on the former Rigden's Farm land⁶. A flat here was the last residence of Jack Platt (1922-2005), regarded as one of the greatest pantomime dames.	Pa1877— ¹HE 1210060 ²HE 1033374 ³Plantagenet Roll: 416 ⁴The Times, obituary, 30 January 1929: 19c ⁵private correspondence ⁶ESRO DC/O/6/9697 ⁷ESRO DC/O/6/12808 (22 Mar 1947) ⁸ESRO DC/O/6/16177 (23 Oct 1953) ⁹ESRO DC/O/6/16315 (15 Feb 1954) ¹⁰HE 1210119 ¹¹ESRO DC/O/6/10062a (4 Feb 1936)
∫ Wilbury Stables, Hove	Former name of Wilbury Grove, also called Wilbury Mews (qqv above).	Pi1901–Pi1909
Wilbury Villas, Hove BN3 6GB, 6GD, 6GS, 6SE	No properties listed in To1898. 5 covenant dated 9 November 1898¹. 22 covenant December 1900². James Williamson's film Our New Errand Boy (1905) was shot here.	To1898— ¹ESRO amsgg/AMS6621/3/29 ²ESRO amsgg/AMS6621/3/13
Wild Park	A pot and lid containig a child's bones was foud-nd here c1880 and several Romano-British burials and seven vessels in 1892. Other artefacts were found in 1887 and 1893¹.	ESRO MES303
Wild Park Close, West Moulsecoomb BN2 4HG, 4HN	Two- and three-storey terraces of council houses on the Bates Estate. numbered in continuation from Thorndean Road and four later three-storey houses individually numbered.	Ke1956—
Wilfrid Road, Hove BN3 7FJ, 7FL	St Wilfrid (634-709) is the patron saint of Sussex. There are churches dedicated to him all over the county, including the one in Elm Grove.	Pi1928—
Wilkinson Close, Rottingdean BN2 7EG	Late 20th century cul-de-sac off Falmer Road.
Willett Estate CA	Conservation area designated in 1989, comprising 27.74ha (68.30 acres). Many of the proerties in the area were built by William Willett.	Character statement Map
∫ Willett's Lane	An early name for Duke Street.
William Clarke Park	Created on a landfill site that had been a deep cutting for the Kemp Town Branch Line of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway.
William Street BN2 0BG, 0RF, 0RU	Built c1815 and originally named North Steyne Street but soon re-named after the then Duke of Clarence, later William IV. Number of properties in 1822: 65. Terraces of lower-ground floor and three storeys above. Houses on the east side were demolished 1935-36¹. Brighton County Court opened 23 October 1985. ph †12-13 opened as the Scotch Stores in 1836, became The Artichoke in 1848 but reverted to its earlier name in 1854. It closedin 1922. †16 had an ice house 1854². †55 was an early childhood residence of Anson Dyer, England's leading animator between the wars.	Ba1822— image ¹James Gray ²R G Martin: 'Ice Houses and the Commercial Ice Trade in Brighton' in Sussex Industrial History no 14: 21
Willingdon Road, Bevendean BN2 4DF		Ke1966—
† Willow Cottages	Between 70 and 71 West Street.	{1861] Pa1869–Ke1930
Wilmington Close BN1 8JE	Renumbered 1 May 1947¹.	Ke1938— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/272
Wilmington Parade, Patcham BN1 8JJ
Wilmington Way, Withdean BN1 8JG, 8JH	Named 5 April 1938¹. Numbered 23 January 1936² and 25 March 1937³. Parts numbered 3 April 1947⁴. ph 2-10, The Long Man was designed in 1938 by Stavers H Tiltman as The Wilmington. It is on the B&H local list.	Ke1936— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/41 ²ESRO DB/D/27/6 ³ESRO DB/D/27/38 ⁴ESRO DB/D/27/270A
Wilson Avenue BN2 5PA, 5PB, 5PD	No properties listed in Pi1925. East Brighton Park, covering 60 acres, is on land acquired by Brighton Council in 1913 and landscaped in 1925. Part numbering April 1958, 4 December 1958 and 19 November 1959¹; part numbering 5 October 1961 and supplementary numnbering 3 March 1966².	Pi1925— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/364 ²ESRO DB/D/27/393
Winchester Street BN1 4NX		Pa1881—
Wincombe Road BN1 5AR	No properties listed in Pi1912.	Pi1912—
Windlesham Avenue BN1 3AH Clifton Hill conservation area (Vernon Court).	Built early 1900s. Originally part of Clifton Hill, renamed and renumbered 26 March 1907¹.	Pi1909— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/134
Windlesham Close, Portslade BN41 2AB, 2AE, 2LB, 2LJ, 2LL, 2LY Portslade Old Village conservation area (21a).	Portslade Allotments occupy much of the west side.	Ke1947—
Windlesham Gardens BN1 3AJ, 3AP, 3AU	Built early 1900s. Renumbered 29 September 1929¹. 3 was the residence of Alderman Hugh Milner Black 1913-1950. 13 was the vicarage for St Michael & All Angels Church.	Pi1909— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/148
Windlesham Road BN1 3AG, 3AQ, 3AX, 3AY Clifton Hill conservation area (New Sussex Hospital).	'No houses at present' in Fo1859 and none are listed until Windlesham House in 1896. In fact, this was called Furze Hill Road until c1881, the two names co-existing. The name Windlesham comes from the village in Surrey where the father-in-law of C R Malden (see below) was vicar. Other properties were built early 1900s. Renumbered 3 September 1903¹ and 26 September 1929². Temple Heights (formerly Windlesham House), on the corner of Temple Gardens, built in 1843-44 as a school for Charles Robert Malden, succeeded by his son Henry Charles Malden. The school moved to Portslade in 1913 and then to Washington, West Sussex in 1934; it is believed to be oldest continuing prep school in the country. It became the New Sussex Hospital for Women and Children in 1921 when Louisa Martindale, Elizabeth Robins and Octavia Wilberforce raised funds to buy the building and remained in that use until 1998. The original building was extended to west and north in the 1920s-1930s and remodelled by Clayton & Black. It is now flats and on the B&H local list.	Fo1859— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/99 ²ESRO DB/D/27/138
Windmill Estate, Hove	Area bounded by Nevill Avenue, Holmes Avenue and Hangleton Road, incororpating Windmill Close, Fallowfield Crescent, Meadway Crescent and Tudor Close. The estate was designed by John Leopold Denman, built 1937-1951 and includes St Peter's Church and the immediately adjacent shopping parade and Grenadier PH in Hangleton Road.
Windmill Close, Hove BN3 7LJ	Cul-de-sac adjacent to West Blatchington Windmill.	Ke1949—
Windmill Drive, Westdene BN1 5HG, 5HH, 5HJ, 5YH	Numered 31 May 1962, renumbered 4 June 1964¹. Patcham Mill (also known as Waterhall Mill and Ballard's Mill) was built between February 1884 and February 1885, the tower by a local builder called Hubbard, the mill machinery by J W Holloway & Son of Shoreham. It was the last mill built in Sussex and remained in use until 1924. During World War II it was used by the Home Guard. It has been a private residence since the 1960s.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/399
Windmill Street BN2 0GN	(formerly Lennox Terrace). The Clifton Mill was moved here in 1837 from Clifton Terrace; it was demolished in 1862. (See also Lennox Street.) Consecutive numbering from Sussex Street on the north-west side, returning on the south-east side. The housing style remains consistent, despite different architects/builders and dates. 1-12 are the earliest houses in the street, probably built in 1852/1853. ph 1, The Setting Sun opened as The Miller's Arms by 1854 and kept that name for around 150 years. It was refurbished in 1933 by Arthur Packham. 10 deeds⁶ are dated 1852 and have the ownership trail Mellish - Lawrence - ? - Combes - Brady, none of whom have yet been identified. 13-17 were built by Hunter for Boniface in 1882³. 18-23, 30-37 were built by Carson¹. 24-29, 38-43 were built by Hampton for Holloway & Fieldus². The land was conveyed from Holloway to Parsons on 13 November 1880⁴. 38-43 were built by Hampton for Holloway & Fieldus, planning application dated 9 November 1880² 44-57 were designed by Allen Anscombe Jr for one of the Nye family in 1894⁵.	Ta1854— ¹ESRO DB/D/7/1937 (17 Nov 1880) ²ESRO DB/D/7/1935 (9 Nov 1880) ³ESRO DB/D/7/2119 (15 Mar 1882) ⁴ESRO ACC 12938/1/21 (13 Nov 1880) ⁵ESRO DB/D/7/3052 (15 Feb 1894) ⁶ESRO ACC 12938/1/9 (3 Nov 1852
Windmill Terrace BN2 9NZ	Built in 1890 on land formerly part of Chates Farm. No properties listed in Pi1896.	Pi1896—
Windmill View, Patcham BN1 8TU	Constructed c1994 on the site of the former Patcham Fawcett Secondary School for Boys' (see Ladies Mile Road).
Windsor Close, Hove BN3 6WK, 6WS	Cul-de-sac off Queen Victoria Avenue, one of several named for royal associations. No properties listed in Ke1958. Goldstone Court is a development of three- and four-storey apartment blocks faced by stand-alone garages. It is on the site of the once isolated Toad's Hole settlement.	Ke1958—
Windsor Street BN1 1RJ, 1RS North Laine conservation area (43-46 consecutive).	† 21 was a recruitment office during the First World War (otherwise a DSA employment office). †Public vaccination station for the western district was here in 1874-1895. —Windsor Buildings was here. †c17-19 was model artisans' dwellings, designed by Thomas Lainson in 1882, built at a cost of c£8,400¹ and listed as in use from 1886 to 1897. ph †19, The Saracen's Head opened c1891 and closed c1913. ph 46, The Earth and Stars opened as a beerhouse c1848 and took the name The Lamb Inn until c1854 when it became The Windsor Tavern (sometimes listed as The Windsor Castle). It was known as The Windsor Tap between 1917 and 1929 then Windsor Tavern again. Throughout much of this period it was listed as 31 Church Street. †Adulam Chapel, in a twitten on the west side, built by John Austin, a member of the Providence Chapel in Church Street, in 1840 for a Welsh sect of Calvinistic Methodists that objected to such things as the theatre. It closed in 1880 after a fire but was not demolished until 1920 when the Regent Cinema was built on the site. • See also Unicorn Yard and stables.	Ke1845— ¹ESRO DB/D/7/2104 (15 Jan 1882); The Builder, 22 Apr 1882:503c
† Windsor Terrace	Built c1830. †Dispensary.	Ke1845–Pa1875
† Windsor Terrace Cottages	At the north end of Windsor Terrace.	Fo1848–Fo1861
Winfield Avenue, Patcham BN1 8QH		Ke1934—
Winfield Close, Mile Oak BN41 2YW	Cul-de-sac off Broomfield Drive.
Winfield Close, Patcham BN1 8QL	Cul-de-sac off Upper Winfield Avenue. Named 2 September 1965¹	Ke1969— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/435
Winton Avenue, Saltdean BN2 8FN	Numbered 1 November 1962¹.	Ke1934— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/406
Wish Road BN3 4LL, 4LN	45 was a residence of Dame Henrietta Barnett and Samuel Augustus Barnett. They are buried at St Helen's Church, Hangleton Way. Plaque. †Wish Cottage was demolished in 1927.	Pi1912—
Wiston Road, Whitehawk BN2 5PP, 5PR	Wiston is a village and estate in West Sussex.No rpoerties listed in Ke1933. Part numbered 13 June 1991 and August 1991¹.	Ke1933— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/446
Wiston Road North, Whitehawk	Northward continuation of Wiston Road South.
Wiston Road South, Whitehawk	Northward continuation of Wiston Road. Semi-detached and short-terraced social housing on the east side.
Wiston Way, Whitehawk BN2 5HT	Numbered 12 Jqnuary 1990 and August 1991¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/446
WITHDEAN	'Wihta's valley' (OE Wihtan dene). Recorded 1091 as Wictedene. On Yeakell & Gardner's map of Sussex (1778-1783) it is called Whiting. The manor of Withdean was owned by the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras at Lewes and after the dissolution of the monasteries was surrendered in 1537 to Henry VIII, who gave it to Thomas Cromwell in 1538 but took it back to become part of the grant given to Anne of Cleves by Henry VIII in 1541. In 1628 into the possession of Thomas Sherley, whose heirs held it until it was sold to William Roe in 1794 by Charles Callis Western. The adjacent manor of Withdean Cayliffe (or Kayliffe or Wightden-Kaylyf) was recorded as being held by John de la Bise from Osbert de Kailly (aka Chailley) in 1265. It passed through the Okehurst and Polstead families until 1557-78 when it was conveyed to Brian Annesley and held of the king. Through inheritance, conveyance and division it passed to the Medley and Western families, coming to Thomas Walsingham Western in 1763. He acquired George Medley's moiety and in 1794 sold the whole of the manor to William Roe, who thereby united the two manors. His son, William Thomas Roe inherited the estate' his widow Mary Elizabeth Roe (née Mathew) managed it during the minority of his heir, their daughter Eliza. Following the marriage of Eliza to Sir Chaloner Ogle, a private Act of Parliament received royal assent in 1849 to confirm the ownership and determine the management of the estate. Hollingbury Farm was leased to William Harris on a yearly tenancy and occupied in 1849 by James Gorringe Tongdean Farm was let in four parcels in 1849. Withdean Farm was leased to John and Charles Scrase in 1750 for 21 years at £60pa, renewed in 1770 for a further 21 years at £100pa and in 1792 (by now to William and Thomas Scrase) for 10 years at £228pa. In 1849 there were East and West Withdean farms. Before being incorporated into the borough of Brighton in 1928 this was part of Steyning East Rural District.	Ownership of the manors from pre-1121 Map of the estate c1890s Each opens in a new window.
Withdean Avenue BN1 5BJ	Part of Withdean Road until separately named as from 17 August 1948¹. The Coach House was present in 1898 and had grounds that extended to Dyke Road Avenue². Missenden Lodge was built in 1908 in vaguely Arts & Crafts style for Thomas Nichols, a builder who retired here, having been in business in Chiswick, West London. Designated until the 1950s as the first house in Dyke Road Avenue, it was designed by George W Newman. Ruston Heights apartment block of eight flats was built for the Greenville Homes Group of Guildford in 2008 on the site of a house called Ruston that was previously known as Richmond House (?). Lions Gardens is a development of sheltered housing built by Brighton Lions Housing, comprising two blocks: Edwards House with 12 flats and Sawyer House with 14 flats.	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/285 ²OS 1898
Withdean Close BN1 5BN	Cul-de-sac off Withdean Road. Named and numbered 24 October 1958¹	Ke1960— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/285¹ESRO DB/D/27/376
Withdean Court Avenue BN1 6YF	Renamed from Dene Court Avenue 30 July 1936¹ but numbered 28 May 1931². 12 was the residence of music hall artist Willy Panzer³. 29 was the residence of Sir Robert Gilbert White Grierson of Lag, 10th bt (1883-1957)⁴.	Ke1938— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/282 ²ESRO DB/D/27/153 ³Kelly 1948 p420 ⁴ESRO ACC8745/14
Withdean Crescent BN1 6WG, 6WH	Numbered 30 July 1936¹.	Ke1932— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/8
∫ Withdean Drove	Formerly Drove Road, The Droveway, The Drove, Hampton's Lane, etc. Renamed thus 26 January 1933¹ but renamed again as Peacock Lane 27 July 1933 and 9 November 1933².	Ke1932–Ke1933 ¹ESRO DB/D/27/33 ²ESRO DB/D/27/25
WITHDEAN ESTATE EAST	Comprises Beechwood Avenue, Eastfield Close, Fairfield Crescent (renamed Hartfield Crescent), Larkfield Way, Larkfield Close, Northfield Way, Westfield Crescent, Wilmington Way and Woodbourne Avenue. Streets named 5 April 1938¹. A compulsory purchase order for land was made in 1945² to allow for the creation of a council housing estate.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/41 ²ESRO DB/A/1/19
WITHDEAN ESTATE WEST	Became known as Westdene. Comprises Barn Rise, Bramble Rise, Copse Hill, Dene Vale, Eldred Avenue, Green Ridge, Highbank, Mill Rise and Redhill Drive. Streets were named on plan 5 April 1938¹, although the estate was mainly built in the early 1960s.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/40
Withdean Park	A 38-acre site in Withdean adjacent to London Road, purchased by the borough council as farmland in 1933 to prevent housign development, was opened by Viscount Gage on 28 May 1935¹.	¹The Times, 29 May 1935: 18 (picture)
Withdean Rise BN1 6YG, 6YH, 6YN	Numbered (other than Regency Court) 3 February 1965, Regency Court 1 April 1965¹. Regency Court is on the site of Withdean Court (see London Road).	Ke1968— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/426
Withdean Road BN1 1BL, 1BP, 1JB	Known popularly as Corkscrew Road and Snaky Lane. Before development, about 20m at the southern end was named Hangleton Road and then Tivoli Road. It was numbered 17 August 1948, when Withdean Avenue was separately named, with supplementary numbering on 13 August 1956¹ and 6 September 1956². 1 was the only house present in 1898³. 24, The Knoll was designed by John Leopold Denman as his own residence. 26, Woodlands was the residence of Brigadier-General Sir Charles King 1918-1919. 35 was designed by ABIR (Atkins Blair Ings Richardson Architects) and built in 2010. 37, 39, 41 were designed by John Pardey Arhitects and built 2016. 40, 42 were designed by Clifton Design Associates in 2007. The construction of 42 featured on Channel Four's Grand Designs programme.	Pi1996— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/285 ²ESRO DB/D/27/338 ³ESRO DB/D/27/285
Withdean Woods	An area of 2.68 ha (6.62 acres), planted by William Roe and bought from the Withdean estate by Brighton Corporation in 1938 to prevent further housing development.
Withyham Avenue, Saltdean BN2 8BT, 8GE, 8LF	One of several roads named after Sussex Wealden villages. Numbered 7 February 1957¹.	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/152
Wivelsfield Road, Saltdean BN2 8FP, 8FQ	(Dormer) bungalows. Numbered 1 June 1961¹.	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/389
†Woburn Place	Between Sussex Street and Richmond Street. Also called Wooburn Place (as pronounced). Number of properties in 1822: 121. It was replaced by Milner Flats in 1934, which were numbered 24 January 1935¹. ph † was The Swan Brewery Tap from 1881 to 1898.	Ba1822— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/16
Woburn Place, Coldean BN1 9GA, 9GB	Housing development off Coldean Lane with pedestrian access to Lewes Road.
Wolseley Road, Coldean BN1 9ET	George Humphrey Park, which opened in April 1989, commemorates Councillor George Humphrey, who represented Stanmer ward.
Wolseley Road, Portslade BN41 1SS, 1ST	Developed on the western side at the southern end of the east side by Joseph David Barnes. Later development in mixed styles on the northern east side. Field Marshall Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) was commander-in-chief of the Forces 1895-1900 and widely commemorated. 11-27 are named Jubilee Terrace, so identified on 17-19 with the initials of Joseph David Barnes and the date 1897 in a cartouche. 29-45 was known as Dinapore Terrace but the name is erased from the cartouche on 33-35, which still bears Barnes' initials and the date 1897. 29 was a corner shop, now residential. ph 47, The Stanley Arms dates from 1896.	To1902—
Wolverstone Drive, Moulsecoomb BN1 7FB	Formerly part of The Crestway. Numbered 5 September and 5 October 1961¹.	Ke1964— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/390
† Wood Street	Between Trafalgar Street and Cheapside. Properties in the street, deemed unfit for habitation, were compulsorily purchased by Brighton Corporation, following a Ministry of Housing enquiry in 1959. The street was demolished in 1962 as part of the clearance of the area. ph 36-37, The Cabinet Makers Arms was opened by Tamplin c1881 and was refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1933 and 1935. It closed in 1946.	[1826] Ke1845–Ke1960
† Woodbine Cottages		1826
Woodbourne Avenue, Withdean BN1 8EJ, 8EQ	Named 5 April 1938¹. Numbered 17 March 1942². Renumbered 17 April 1947³ and 1 May 1947⁴.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/41 ²ESRO DB/D/27/62 ³ESRO DB/D/27/275 ⁴ESRO DB/D/27/274
† Woodhouse Close	Location not ascertained.
Woodhouse Road, Hove BN3 5NA, 5NE	Portland estate. Mansfield Woodhouse is a manor in Nottinghamshire, part of the estates of the Dukes of Portland. On 30 August 1940 a Hawker Hurricane fighter plane was shot down by a German Messerschmitt and crashed outside 49, creating a deep crater [right], killing the pilot Sgt Dennis Noble and burying the plane. It was assumed that the body was removed but when the site was excavated in 1996 Sgt Noble's remains were found in the fusilage. Photo: Kent Battle of Britain Museum	Ke1931—
WOODINGDEAN	District to the north-east of Brighton, incorporated into the borough on 1 April 1928.
∫ Woodingdean Road, Ovingdean	Renamed Ovingdean Road 26 April 1934¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/19
Woodland Avenue, Hove BN3 6BH, 6BJ, 6BL, 6BN	Takes its name from the Three-Cornered Copse that runs behind the houses on the east side. Only no 2 listed in Ke1938.	Ke1938—
Woodland Close, Hove BN3 6BP	Cul-de-sac off Woodland Avenue. No properties listed in Ke1947-1949.	Ke1947—
Woodland Court	Apartment block development off Dyke Road Avenue.
Woodland Drive CA	Conservation area, designated in 1996, comprising 11.18ha (27.62 acres), including 56-152 Woodland Drive and the Three-Cornered Copse.	>Character statement Map
Woodland Drive, West Blatchington BN3 6DE, 6DF, 6DH, 6DJ, 6DL, 6DS, 6QH, 6RA Engineerium conservation area (Reservoir, Waterworks Cottages 1-4, Boiler and Engine House, cooling pond, coalshed, land to south-east of Engineerium, nursery, miniature railway, pavilion). Woodland Drive conservation area (56-152 even, Three-Cornered Copse).	Takes its name from the Three-Cornered Copse that runs behind the houses on the west side and formed the western boundary of the Withdean estate. No properties listed in Ke1933-1935. British Engineerium is the former Goldstone Pumping Station, built in 1866 for the Brighton Hove and Preston Constant Service Water Supply Company, enlarged by engineers Easton and Amos in 1876 for Brighton Corporation Water Department. A strip of land was bought by Brighton Corporation from the Nevill family to make a footpath to the works on 15 May 1934¹. Brighton Water Department wanted to demolish the building in 1971. The museum opened on 26 October 1976 after restoration of the building. The boiler and engine house² and chimney³ are Grade II* listed, the cooling pond and leat (1866)⁴, the former coal shed⁵ (1872) and the walls⁶ are Grade II listed. PAleolithic ovate handaxes were fond during excavations here¹⁰. 13 was the final residence of Lt-Col Cecil Beresford (d 1959), said to have kicked the first football into no man's land at the Battle of Loos in 1915⁷. A 2nd century AD Roman coin (a dupondius of Hadrian) was found here⁸. 56 is where a hand hammer-struck flint flake and two piece of fire-cracked flint were discovered⁹.	Ke1933— ¹ESRO ABE/1C ²HE 1187600 ³HE 1292285 ⁴HE 1187601 ⁵HE 1210170 ⁶HE 1398616 ⁷Arscott (2002): 92, quoting Brighton and Hove Gazette 1959 ⁸ESRO: MES10611 ⁹ESRO: MES23279 ¹⁰ESRO: MES1050
Woodland Parade, Hove BN3 6DR ¶ Designated an Important Local Parade.	Parade of shops set back from Woodland Drive.
†Woodland Terrace, Portslade		Pa1890–Pa1891
Woodland Walk, Ovingdean BN2 7AR Ovingdean conservation area.	Small modern development off Longhill Road.
Woodland Way, Withdean BN1 8BA		Ke1947—
Woodlands, Hove BN3 6TJ	Built on land off Dyke Road surrounding Barrowfield Lodge, a (very) large house now converted to flats, along with Elm Close, The Green and Barrowfield Drive.	Ke1934—
Woodlands, The, Withdean BN1 8WA	Numbered 2 March 1954¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/317
Woodruff Avenue, Hove BN3 6Pf, 6PG, 6PH, 6PJ	Alderman George Baldwin Woodruff was the first mayor of Hove.	Ke1923—
Woodside Avenue, Withdean BN1 5NF	Part numbered 8 July 1852¹. G W Ashdown applied for planning approval of one house, to be designed/built by Loader & Long, on 15 July 1897²; this was not yet listed in To1898.	To1898— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/298 ²ESRO DB/D/7/4562
Woodvale Cemetery	See Lewes Road.
Woodview Close, Coldean BN1 9GH	Cul-de-sac off Nanson Road. Named and numbered 3 February 1966¹.	Ke1968— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/441
Woollards Way BN1 9BP	This was Woollards Field. Flint artefacts were found here in 2008, suggesting rare human activity during the Late Pleiestocene period¹. The Keep is the purpose-built archive for the East Sussex Record Office, Brighton & Hove City Council and the University of Sussex. It cost £19m and opened on 31 October 2013.	ESRO MES25653, MES26479
Worcester Villas, Hove BN3 5TA, 5TB	No properties listed in Pi1901. 9 was the residence of cinema pioneer William Friese Greene from c.1909-1913. Borough of Hove plaque.	Pi1901—
Wordsworth Street, Hove BN3 5BG, 5BH	In the Poet's Corner district, this street is named after poet laureate William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Two properties listed 'and houses building' in Pa1883.	Pa1883—
Wykeham Terrace BN1 3FF Clifton Hill conservation area.	Thirteen houses (numbered 1-12, including 7a), built 1827-1830 in Gothic Revival style. 1-12 are Grade II listed¹. 7 was the residence of actress Dame Flora Robson. Brighton Corporation plaque. 8 was the residence of Sir Roy Strong. The two early-19th-century cast-iron bollards outside are Grade II listed².	PO1846— ¹HE 1381112 ²HE 1380459
Wyndham Street BN2 1AF East Cliff conservation area.	Formerly known as Marine Street. The Wyndham family, Earls of Egremont, lived at Petworth House and had estates in Sussex (cf, Egremont Place.) 1, Wyndham House is dated 1807, inscribed over the doorway. It was a residence of actor Frank Finlay for 30 years to 2007. 1A-2, the old fire station, was built 1865-66 to a red-brick gothic design by Brighton architect/surveyor I Johnson for Henry Hill, a plaque dating the building to 1866, and converted for use as a fire station c1900. It was later a bottling plant. Grade II listed¹. 2 was the residence of theatrical manager and former actor Charles Macdona in the 1920s. 5 is on the B&H local list. 7-19, the east side of the street, are Grade II listed².	Census1841; Ke1845— ¹HE 1381113 ²HE 1381114
Wynnes Mews, Hove BN3 5BQ	Modern back development behind 87-91 Montgomery Street.

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