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NASH, John
1752-1835
Architect.
      Employed by the Prince Regent to design his Royal Pavilion. Born in London, son of a Welsh wheelwright, he served a 10-year apprenticeship from 1766 with Sir Robert Thomas and established his own practice in 1777. After being declared bankrupt in 1783 he moved to Wales and developed a practice specialising in country houses, working from 1792 with landscape designer Humphry Repton. He returned to London in 1797 and became noted for Regent Street, Marble Arch, Carlton House Terrace and Buckingham Palace. His pupils included Decimus Burton and Augustus Pugin.
Image: Portrait by Thomas Lawrence [Jesus College, University of Oxford]
Royal Pavilion, Old Steine
NASH, William Henry
1840-1919
Architect.
      Born in Uxbridge, he came to Brighton soon after his marriage in 1866.
WORK
3-5, †6-7 Lovers Walk (1878-1879)
1-39 (odd) Carlyle Street (1879)
57 Exeter Street (with coachhouse, 1882)
10 Powis Grove (1883)
19½, 20 Marine View (1884)
Mission Hall, Coleman Street (iron building, 1886-1887)
12 Carlton Place (1891)
Mission Hall, Rochester Street (1892)
13-16 East Drive (1895)
Rutland Gospel Hall, Rutland Road (1896-1900)
308 Dyke Road (1901)
306 Dyke Road (1902)
29-35 (odd) Old Shoreham Road (1902)

PERSONAL
21 Chatham Place [residence 1881-1891]
33 New Road [practice 1882-85]
42 Ship Street [practice 1886-1912]
17 North Street [practice 1899-1903]
163 Ditchling Rise [residence 1901]
8 North Street Quadrant [practice 1904-1908]
2 Buxton Road [residence 1902-1908]
14 Caburn Road [residence 1909-12]
NEWMAN, George William
1880-
Assistant architect and surveyor (1901-1911).
      Born in Brighton, son of an undertaker and monumental mason. Lived and worked in Tottenham, London from early-mid 1900s.
WORK
Missenden Lodge, Withdean Avenue (1908)
9 Eldred Avenue (1923)

PERSONAL
105 Trafalgar Street [residence 1889-1901]
NICOLI, Carlo
1843-1915
Sculptor.
      Founder of the Nicoli workshops in Carrara, Italy, where he was born.
WORK
• Statue of Queen Victoria, Victoria Gardens
NIXON, Harry Burtenshaw
1884-1966
Builder and contractor.
      He came to Sussex from London and worked in Heathfield and Horsted Keynes before settling in Brighton.
WORK
Varndean Gardens

PERSONAL
156 Sackville Road [residence 1914-1929]
Hawthorn, Knoyle Road [residence 1929-1930]
2 Knoyle Road [residence 1930-1935]
15 Preston Drove (Merlewood) [residence 1936-1939]
17 Lauriston Road [residence 1949-1966]
NORTON, John
1823-1904
Architect.
      Pupil of Benjamin Ferrey. The first half of his career was spent working mostly in the West Country before estabishing an office in London.
WORK
St Matthew's Church, Sutherland Road (completion, 1883; demolished 1967)
NOYCE, William George
1860-1942
Carpenter and joiner.
      Born in Brighton, the illegitimate grandson of a carpenter and joiner. He had 14 children. Unusually for a carpenter, his work is very visible.
WORK
tram shelter, Dyke Road (c1902)
tram shelter, Ditchling Road, opposite Ditchling Road (c1902)
tram shelter, Ditchling Road, corner of Upper Hollingdean Road (c1902)
tram shelter, Queen's Park Road, junction of Queen's Park Terrace (c1902)

PERSONAL
16 Regent Hill [birthplace and childhood residence 1860-]
7a North Gardens [lodging 1881]
40 Hanover Street [residence 1888-1909]
49 Upper Lewes Road` [residence 1910-1942]
NUNN, Bastick William
1864-1936
Architect.
      Brighton-born. Articled to Samuel Denman for three years from April 1881, became Denman's managing assistant. ARIBA 1890 (proposed by Thomas Lainson et al), resigned 1927. Left Brighton in the 1890s for Devonport to work for the Admiralty as an architectural draughtsman. Died in Winchester.
WORK
No work identified so far

PERSONAL
60 Western Road [childhood residence]
5 Bath Street [boarding 1891]
NUNN, Benjamin Hitchcock
1819-1904
Architect and surveyor.
      Born in Hackney, London into the baptist family of a builder at Homerton, he was a builder's clerk (1851-57) before becoming an architect and surveyor. He made the original drawings of the Brighton Workhouse for George Maynard and continued the work after Maynard's death. He worked on numerous public buildings—police stations, the Brighton Asylum at Haywards Heath, Lewes Prison and Chailey Workhouse—as well as general work in Brighton. In 1891 he formed a partnership with Simeon Hunt as Nunn & Hunt [qv]. He retired in 1895. He left nearly £6,681 13s 6d.
WORK
Galeed Strict Baptist Chapel, Gloucester Road (1868)
5-6 Buckingham Road (1870)
12, 18-19 Albert Road (1870)
1-2 Leopold Road (1870)
3-6 North Road (1870)
infant school, Elder Place (1871)
8-9 Milton Place (1871)
1 Rock Street (1872)
16 Ruke Street (1874)

PERSONAL
80 Upper North Street [employment 1851-57]
129 Queen's Road [practice 1878-1890]
27 Chatham Place [residence 1871-1904]
Nunn & Hunt
Architectural firm.
      Partnership of BH Nunn [qv] and Simeon Hunt.
WORK
Parochial Offices of the Board of Guardians and Registrar, Prince's Street (1892-1894)
1-6 (inclusive) Rugby Place, 3 as a workshop (1893)
1a, 1b, 2b Whitehawk Road (1893)
40-41 Edward Street 40 as a warehouse (1896)
1,3, 5 White Street (1896)
13, 15 Blaker Street (1896)
telegraph office, Race Stand, Freshfield Road (1897)

PRACTICE
129 Queen's Road [1893]
NYE, Charles [Jr]
1852-1923
NYE, Arthur W
1864-1953
NYE, George Manley
1865-1913
Charles Nye. Architect, surveyor and civil engineer.
      Born in Brighton, son of a lodging house keeper and later coal agent, also called Charles Nye, in Western Street. Surveyor's assistant (1871). Surveyor for the Stanford Estate. Prolific, working mainly in Hove. He successfully pressed for the proposed name of West Brighton Road to be changed to Hove Park Villas. Emigrated to the USA around the turn of the century and died in Napa, California.
Arthur Nye. Architect.
      Younger brother of Charles Nye and older brother of George Nye. He was one of the first councillors elected for the new St Leonard's ward when Aldrington was merged into Hove in 1893.
George Nye. Architect and surveyor.
      Born in Brighton, younger brother of Charles Nye. His career began as a draftsman for the Stanford Estate. He emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1908 and died in Brisbane.
WORK (Charles Nye)
221, 223, 225 Preston Road (shops, 1876)
90,92,94,96 Preston Road (1876)
62,64,73,75 Beaconsfield Road (1876)
77 Beaconsfield Road (stables, 1876)
• 1 pair semi-detached villas in Eaton Road (1877)
laid out Newtown Road from Fonthill Road to Sackville Road (1890)
• 22 houses, 1 shop in Newtown Road (1889-1893)
21-37 Lorna Road (1890)
laid out Ranelagh Villas (1891)
• 17 pairs of semi-detached villas in Hartington Villas (1891, 1894)
• 22 houses in Fonthill Road (1892, 1896)
• 13 detached villas in Wilbury Avenue (1891, 1897)
1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 26, 30-38 (even), 55 plus 3 detached and 2 pairs semi-detached villas in Hove Park Villas (1890-1892)
79-80 Western Road, Hove (1892)
laid out Wilbury Crescent (1894)
• 1 pair semi-detached villas in Wilbury Crescent (1895)
• 5 pairs semi-detached villas in Ranelagh Villas (1895, 18977)
• 9 pairs semi-detached villas in Walsingham Road (1897)
• 10 semi-detached villas in Sackville Gardens (1898-1899)
• 12 villas in Wilbury Gardens (1896-1899)
• 6 detached villas in The Drive (1898-1899)
49,51 and 2 more pairs semi-detached villas in Norton Road (1900)
[21-35?] Walsingham Road (8 terraced houses, 1900)

WORK (Arthur Nye)
49,51 and 2 more pairs semi-detached villas in Norton Road (1900)
and much more to follow

WORK (George Nye)
83 Montgomery Street (stables at rear and laundry, 1898)
• detached house in Wilbury Avenue (1898)
• pair of semi-detached houses in Wilbury Road (1898)
60 Conway Street (1900)
10 Ellen Place (1900)
• 2 houses with stabling, east side of Glebe Villas (1900)
[1,3,5,7?] Worcester Villas (2 pairs of semi-detached villas, east side, 1901)
Clitonville Hotel, Goldstone Villas (alterations, 1901)
• 3 houses with stabling in Richardson Road (by Lion Mews, 1901)
• 3 pairs of semi-detached villas, east side of Cambridge Road (1901)
12-20 Shirley Street (warehouse extension (1901)

PERSONAL (Charles Nye)
Paragon House, 37 Western Street [childhood home]
1 Selborne Road [Stanford Estate Office, 1877-1886]
34 Duke Street [practice 1890-99]
Ash Lea/Fernside, [27] Goldstone Villas [residence 1880-1886]
4 Cavendish Place [residence 1890-1899?]

PERSONAL (Arthur Nye)
Paragon House, 37 Western Street [childhood home 1863-]
8 St Leonard's Road [residence 1891-1898]
34 Duke Street [1912].
13 Sackville Gardens [residence 1901-after 1938]
22 Palmeira Avenue Mansions, Church Road [residence before 1947-1954]

PERSONAL (George Nye)
Paragon House, 37 Western Street [childhood home 1864-]
93 Church Road and 1 Western Street [1890]
15 Norton Road [lodgings 1891]
47 Hova Villas [residence 1901]
     

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