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1849-1933
Architect.Born in Brighton, he grew up in Keymer and was educated in Lewes. After working for local building firms for a year, he was articled to H N Goulty in 1867, then became assistant to William Emerson. In 1870-72 he was clerk of works and architect to Philip Causton Lockwood, Brighton Borough Surveyor. He had his own practice from 1873. He moved to Bedford Park, Chiswick, London by 1876 and was associated with development of that estate. He was editor of Building News from 1872 to 1923. FRIBA 1886.
1815-1867
Born in Alfriston, son of an agricultural labourer who became a railway crossing keeper at West Tarring (1851). He was a porter in 1847 an assistant station master in 1851, when his father-in-law William Good (in the same house) was a builder. He was listed as a builder in 1854 but described as a general agent in 1861 and as a gentleman in his probate record.
• Bellevue Tavern, 67 Buckingham Place (1852)
PERSONAL
• 24 Terminus Road [1850-1867, deathplace]
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 144 Western Road [1864]
Architects at .
Active in Hove 1909-1918, almost all their known work was conversion of larger properties into flats and maisonettes.
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 53 Church Road [1918-21]
1895-1977
He is named in connection with developments on the Sweet Hill plotland estate. As much of this site was developed without planning permission, using prefabricated housing, huts and sheds, it was relatively unusual for anyone to be identified. He is also identified as William T Alldridge.
• Windyridge, London Road, Patcham (1922)
• Highmead, London Road, Patcham (1923)
• at least 11 properties on the Sweet Hill Estate (1922-23)
PERSONAL
• 6 Terminus Place [birthplace]
• 68 Prince's Road [childhood home]
1885-1964
Son of a building surveyor and land agent, he was very influential in suburban and bungalow development in the inter-war years (including in Australia and New Zealand). ARIBA 1910. Author of The Cheap Cottage and Small House: A manual of economic building, which went into multiple editions, and The Smaller House of To-day (London: B T Batsford, 1926). Winner of the 1927 Daily Mail Ideal Home Competition for Architects for a bungalow design.
• 14, 16, 22, 24, 26, 34, 40, 42 Carden Avenue (1922-26)
• 14 Colebrook Road (1923)
• 4 Hillbrow Road (1924)
• 20, 25 Winfield Avenue (1926)
Little is known about him; Allwork was a common name in Willingdon at that time.
• St Margaret's Church, The Green, Rottingdean (alterations, repairs, 1818)
• St Wulfran's Church, Greenways, Ovingdean (repairs, possibly south porch, 1826)
1889-1943
Born in Brighton, the son of a laundry manager. He was enlisted as an architectural draughtsman in the Royal Engineers 1916-1918. Partner in Andrews & Duke.
• 20 semi-detached houses in Derek Avenue (1928)
PERSONAL
• 12 Ashdown Road [childhood residence 1891]
• 123 Round Hill Crescent [childhood residence 1901]
• 203 Ditchling Road [family residence 1911]
• 43 Park Crescent Terrace [residence 1916]
• 97 Buckingham Road [1923-1927]
• Laboheme, 13 Derek Avenue [1929-1933]
• 16 St Georges Terrace [1934-1937]
Partnership of William Frederick Andrews and Reginald John Duke; also at Hanover Square, London.
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• Bostel House, 37 West Street
1789-1852
ANSCOMBE, Edward
1795-1843
ANSCOMBE, Allen Sr
1801-1871
ANSCOMBE, Parker
1829-1900
ANSCOMBE, Allen Jr
1843-1917
ANSCOMBE, John
1845-1921
Elder brother of Edward Anscombe. His sons, Alfred and Allen, were his surveyor's clerks.
Edward Anscombe. Surveyor.
Elder brother of Allen Anscombe Sr.
Allen Anscombe Snr. Architect and surveyor.
Born in Cuckfield. Joseph Anscombe, carpenter and builder, was the principal resident at 116 Queen's Road in 1867. Allen was the Brighton town surveyor (1852-1856).
Parker Anscombe. Architect and surveyor.
Born in Cuckfield, son of Joseph Anscombe and nephew of Allen Anscombe [qv]. He too was a carpenter (1861) but was the postmaster at Hurstpierpoint in 1871. He was variously described as an architect and surveyor (1873), railway surveyor (1881) and surveyor (1891). He was then in partnership with Edgar Wallace Long by 1894 as Anscombe & Long [qv].
Allen Anscombe Jr. Surveyor.
Son of Allen Anscombe, born in Brighton. Served as his father's clerk (1861), Master carpenter (1871), then building and land surveyor.
John Anscombe. Surveyor.
Son of Allen Anscombe Sr and brother of Allen Anscombe Jr [qqv]. Surveyor's assistant (1871). Surveyor (1881). Builder's foreman (1891). Surveyor (1901-1911). He left £1,029 11s 3d.
• No work identified so far
WORK (Edward)
• No work identified so far
WORK (Allen Snr)
• Pool Lane, Pool Valley (improvements, 1840)
• latrines, urinals on foreshore, Shoreham Road [Kingsway], Hove (1877)
WORK (Parker)
• Oxford Street Chapel, Oxford Street
WORK (Allen Jr)
• 66-72 Old Shoreham Road (1890)
• Julian Road (previously Goldsmid Road, layout 1892)
• 44-57 Windmill Road (1894)
WORK (John)
• 4 Russell Street (1874)
• 38 Goldstone Villas (coach house and stable 1879)
PERSONAL (Joseph)
• 61 High Street [1851]
PERSONAL (Edward)
• 19 North Gardens [1832-1843]
PERSONAL (Allen Snr, family)
• 30 St George's Road [family residence, practice 1839-1851]
• 36 College Place [family residence, practice 1851-59]
• 14 College Gardens [family residence 1861-1862]
• 116 Queen's Road [1864-1871]
PERSONAL (Parker)
• 11 Elm Grove [residence 1873]
• 53 Surrey Street [residence 1874-1882]
• 105 Gloucester Road [residence, practice, 1889-1891]
PERSONAL (Allen Jr)
• 5 Fairlight Place [residence 1871]
• 12 Buckingham Street [residence, practice 1877-1886]
• 28 West Hill Road [residence, practice, 1887-1917]
PERSONAL (John)
• 15 Railway Street [residence 1871]
• 36 Surrey Street[1880-1886]
• 58 Stanley Road [ 1891]
• 110 Elm Grove [1893-1901]
• 21 Rose Hill Terrace [1902-1921]
Partnership of Parker Anscombe [qv] and Edgar Wallace Long
1865-1916
Born in Abinger, Surrey, the son of a City of London merchant and landowner, he was articled to E B Ellice-Clark in Hove from 1882 to 1886, engaged on sea defences and other projects. After a brief period working for the town surveyor of Bognor, he was again in Hove working for Ellice-Clark as assistant clerk of works on the Medina Groyne and storm water overflows of the intercepting sewer with other general duties. In 1886-1887 he studied at the Sorbonne and Collège de France in Paris, returning to Hove, where H H Scott was now Town Surveyor, as clerk of works on sewerage and street improvements. Apart from a brief interval in Nottingham employed on the extension of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway to London, he had his own independent practice in Brighton in 1888. He was in partnership with B H Dixon from 1891 to 1907, thereafter on his own account. He died in hospital in Hastings and left £12,126 3s 5d.
• See Anthony & Dixon.
PERSONAL
• Royal Insurance Chambers, 162 North Street [practice 1909-15]
• 46 Stanford Road [residence 1912-1914]
• 66 Dyke Road [residence 1914-1916]
Partnership of Albert Evershed Anthony and Bertram Harold Dixon. The listing of their principal work is believed to be complete.
• 68 Crescent Road (1895)
• 95, 121 Stanford Avenue (1895-96)
• 23 Preston Park Avenue (1895)
• 29, 32 Princes Road (1896)
• 6 houses on west side, Dyke Road (1896)
• 30 Harrington Villas (1896)
• 50, 52 Highdown Road (1897)
• additions, chapel, St Joseph's Home for the Aged, 182 Old Shoreham Road (1897, 1900)
• 30-44 (even) Riley Road (laundries 1898)
• 37a-c Crescent Road (1898)
• electrical works for Reason Manufacturing Company, Lewes Road (1899, 1900, 1902)
• 2 houses on east side, house on north-east corner, Montefiore Road (1901, 1902)
• 15, 17 Crescent Road (1902)
• 2-8 (even) Hollingbury Road (1903)
• 2-8 (even) Hollingbury Terrace (1903)
• 4-14 (even) Riley Road (1902)
• parish room, Tamworth Road (1904)
• Abbingsworth, 2 Tongdean Road (1905-06)
• 3 houses, Princes Crescent (1906)
PRACTICE
• 35 East Street [1899-1907]
1937-
He taught at the University of Brighton, specialising in religious works.
• Chapel Royal, North Street* (painted sign)
• St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place* (altarpiece)
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 15 Devonshire Place [1848]
• 19 Charlotte Street [1851]
1843-1934
Born in Ditchling, son of a miller (Oldland Mill, Keymer), he was a dairyman [he took over Peter's Dairy c1868] and provision merchant; his dairy became Southern Counties Dairy by 1905 and he was listed as managing director of a dairy company (1901). He was admitted to the Royal York masonic lodge in 1881. He began property development in the late 1890s and by 1910 was listed as an estate agent, landowner and housing developer in Preston and the north of Brighton. He left £9,647 12s 10d.
• 5, 6, 7 Agnes Street [1881]
• 62-66 (even) Tivoli Crescent and 17 houses not built [1890, 1891]
• 15-23 (odd) Matlock Road [1893]
† 82 Sussex Street [1896]
• 184 Tivoli Crescent [1897]
• 1-5 Woodside Avenue [1895, 1 resubmitted 1897]
• 1-9 (odd) Tivoli Crescent [1898, 1899]
• 2-10 (even) Tivoli Crescent [1899, resubmitted 1900, 1902] includes one shop
• eight houses in Tivoli Crescent [1899, 1902]
• two houses in Matlock Road [1905, 1906]
• two residential shops in Matlock Road [1907]
PERSONAL
• 28 North Gardens [dairy/residence 1868-73]
• 52 Gloucester Road [shop/residence 1874-1901]
• Brynhyfryd/Gordon House, 10 Tivoli Crescent [residence 1904-1909]
• 12 Matlock Road [office/residence 1911]
• South Lodge, 1 Tivoli Crescent [residence 1919-1926]
• Brocker House (1927)/Oakdene (1928-29)/End House (1930)/The Beacon, Tivoli Crescent North [residence 1927-1934]
1879-
Born in Brighton, the son of a draper in Trafalgar Street. While attending Brighton Municipal School of Science and Art in 1894-1899, he was articled to Charles Bullock in 1895-1898 and worked as his assistant for a further year before moving to London.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 5 (renumbered 101 in 1900) Ditchling Road [family residence 1881-1900]
Established his reputation designing cinemas, his most accomplished work being the Regent Cinema, Brighton (1921), the first luxury cinema in the country, which fellow architect Sir Howard Richardson—who succeeded Atkinson as principal of the Architectural Association—described as Atkinson's 'no 1 Symphony'. It was regarded as one of the most remarkable British buildings of the 1920s.
† Regent Cinema, Queen's Road (1921)
• The Dome and Corn Exchange, Church Street (remodelling, 1935)
• Pavilion Theatre, New Road (remodelling, 1935) now Studio Theatre
1890-1975
Trained as a carpenter.
• 7 Seaview Road (1925)
PERSONAL
• Overhill Way [1941]
• 53 Barrhill Avenue [1948-1954
• 82 Eldred Avenue [1956]
1880-1955
Born in Portslade, the son of a brewer's traveller, he attended Brighton Municipal College of Science and Art 1897-1901—where he was an assistant instructor until 1904—while articled to A R Pannett in Haywards Heath 1896-1901 and thereafter remained as his assistant until 1904. He was an assistant in East Sussex Councty Council Surveyors' Department 1904-1906 before moving to Cardiff.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• Overhill Way [1941]
• 53 Barrhill Avenue [1948-1954
• 82 Eldred Avenue [1956]
† Adulam Chapel, Windsor Street (1840, demolished)
1885-1948
In practice at 4 Shelley Terrace, Lewes, he lived in Seaford from the 1930s until his death.
• 126 Warren Road (1921)
• 17 Channel View Road (1921)
• Warren Farm bungalow, Warren Road (alterations, 1928)
1876-1954
Designer mainly of domestic housing in the first third of the 20th century. Son of a lodging house keeper in New Steine, he trained as a surveyor's assistant (1901). Later known as Frederick Charles Axtell. In retirement he lived at 1 The Twitten, Southwick.
• 27, 29, 31, White Street (1897)
• two houses, Lowther Road (1899)
• 28, 30, 32, 34 St Luke's Road (1900)
• 91, 93, 95 Sandgate Road (1901)
• 3 houses, east side, Osmond Road (1902)
• 102, house and shop (1902)
• 8 houses, Ditchling Road (1905)
• 7 houses, Hollingbury Park Avenue (1905)
• 3 houses, Coombe Road (1906)
• 'Glen View' 1 Cornwall Gardens (1906-08)
• 4, 5 Crown Street (rebuilding, 1907)
• 10-11 Leicester Street (1907)
• 10 houses, Osborne Road (1907)
• pair of semi-detached houses, Osborne Road (1907)
• 3 houses, East Drive (1909)
• 2 houses, Ferndale Road (1910)
• house, Dyke Road (1912)
• St Augustine's Church, Stanford Avenue (chancel, 1913)
• 'The Glen' 32 Withdean Road (1913?)
• 2 houses, Arundel Road (1922)
• house, Bonchurch Road (1923)
• two bungalows, Chatsworth Road (1923)
• three houses, Stanford Avenue (1923)
• School House, 60 Ladies Mile Road (1923)
• 'Guisboro', London Road (1923)
• Sweet Hill Barn, Sweet Hill Estate (conversion to residence, 1923)
• 'bungalow near Valley Road', Sweet Hill Estate (1925)
• 2 houses, Reigate Road (1925)
• Newick House Hotel, South Coast Road (1927)
• 10 Hillbrow Road (1929)
• 7 houses, Stanmer Park Road (west side, 1930)
• 72 Warmdene Road (1932)
PERSONAL
• 11 Prince Albert Street [practice 1905]
• 38 Ship Street [practice <1909->1938]
• 10 New Steine [1912-21]
1874-1960
Architect.Born in Scotland, he was assistant to Edwin Lutyens while studying at the Royal College of Art. He had his own practice from 1899 and was in partnership with John Simpson from 1910 to 1928. FRIBA 1920.
• Roedean School, Roedean Way