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PACKHAM, Arthur Benjamin
1866-1947
Architect.
      Born in Brighton, son of a carpenter who became landlord of the Wheatsheaf PH in Bond Street c1858. An architect's assistant in 1891, he had become the company architect for Tamplins Brewery at 1 Phoenix Place by 1899. LRIBA 1930. He is buried in the Brighton & Preston Cemetery in Hartington Road.
      The listing of his work for Tamplins is believed to be complete but in many cases may have been for relatively minor works. Some properties are no longer licensed premises. In addition to Historic England listing of the Victory Inn, Druid's Head and Thurlow Arms, a number are included on the local list and are marked **.
WORK
Mavis Bank Hotel, 37 Millers Road (1899)
• 20 houses in Sandgate Road (1902)
Traveller's Joy, 22 Victoria Terrace PH** (rebuild 1908)
Victory Inn, 6 Duke Street PH (rebuild 1910)
St Mary RC Church, Surrenden Road (1910-1921)
Edinburgh Inn, 67a Upper Gloucester Road PH (rebuild 1919)
Railway Hotel, 29-30 Surrey Street PH now Grand Central** (rebuild 1925)
Good Companions, Dyke Road PH** (1939)
Later PH remodelling/renovation:
Golden Fleece, 2 Market Street (1926)
Ye Olde Thatched House, 27 Black Lion Street (1926)
Maltster's Arms, 210 Western Road (1926, 1930)
City of London, 40 London Street (1927, 1939)
Bath Arms, 4-5 Meeting House Lane (1927, 1929)
Sussex Hotel, 33-34 East Street (1927, 1928)
Victoria, 31a Richmond Road (1927)
New Inn, 100 Upper Lewes Road now The Martha Gunn (1928)
Wheatsheaf, 27 Bond Street (1929)
Sea House Inn, 1 Middle Street (1929, 1931, 1934)
Crescent Inn, 6 Clifton Hill (1929)
City of York, 113-114 Western Road, Hove (1929, 1946)
Jolly Brewer, 100 Ditchling Road** (1929)
Woodman, 49 Guildford Street (1929)
Pedestrian's Arms, 12-13 Foundry Street now The Foundry (1930, 1935, 1938, 1939)
The Lion, 65 St James's Street now The Sidewinder (1930)
Windsor Castle, 120 Queen's Road (1931)
Thurlow Arms, 161 Edward Street (1931)
Flying Dutchman, 27 Elm Grove (1931)
Basketmaker's Arms, 12 Gloucester Road (1931)
Prince Albert, 48 Trafalgar Street (1931)
Race Hill Inn, 1 Lewes Road (1931, 1935, 1937, 1942)
North Road Inn, 102 North Road (1931, 1944)
Royal Sovereign, 65-66 Preston Street (1931, 1933)
Lord Clyde, 1 North Quadrant (1931)
Belgrave Arms, 68 St George's Road (1931)
Dyke Tavern, Dyke Road** (1932)
Rising Sun, 23 Tidy Street (1932)
Beaufort Hotel, 175 Queen's Park Road (1932, 1937)
White Horse, Marine Drive, Rottingdean (1932, 1934, 1937)
Branch Tavern, 53 London Road (1933)
Millers' Arms, 1 Windmill Street (1933)
Live and Let Live, 24 Richmond Street (1933, 1939)
Cabinet Maer's Arms, 36-37 Wood Street (1933, 1935)
Dog Tray, 10 Edward Street (1933-35)
Wellington Inn, 53 Elm Grove (1934)
Running Horse, 32 Grosvenor Street (1934, 1940)
Ranelagh Arms, 2 High Street (1934, 1936)
Northern Tavern, 85 Ditchling Road (1935)
Fox, 22 Hanover Street (1936)
Great Eastern, 103 Trafalgar Street (1936)
Free Butt, 22 Albion Street (1936, 1943)
Castle Inn, 1 Clarence Gardens (1937)
Bear Inn, 109 Lewes Road** (1937)
Lathcleavers' Arms, 11 Regent Row (1937)
Hanover Arms Inn, 71 Southover Street (1937)
Green Dragon, 9 Sydney Street (1937)
Round Hill Tavern, 100 Ditchling Road (1938)
Red Lion, 33 Park Place (1938)
Regency Tavern, 33 Russell Square (1938)
Ladies Mile Hotel, 2 Mackie Avenue** (1938)
Northumberland Arms, 109 St George's Road (1938)
Little Globe, 152 Edward Street (1939)
Anchor, 56 Lavender Street (1939)
Flowing Stream, 22 Newhaven Street (1939)
White Horse, 4 Norfolk Buildings (1939)
Norfolk Arms, 2 Norfolk Street (1939)
Marlborough Inn, 4 Pavilion Street (1939)
Dover Castle, 43 Southover Street (1939)
Blacksmith's Arms, 44 Upper North Street (1939)
Cobden Arms, 45-46 Cobden Road (1940)
United Service, 100 Elm Grove (1940)
Golden Cross, 16 Southover Street now The Geese have gone over the water (1940)
Windmill Inn, 63 Upper North Street (1940)
West Hill Inn, 54 West Hill Street (1940)
Sudeley Arms, 33 Upper Sudeley Street now St George's Inn (1940, 1943)
Franklin Arms, 158 Lewes Road (1941)
Preston Brewery Tap, 197 Preston Road (1941)
Aquarium Inn, 8 Steine Street (1941, 1943)
Railway Bell, 26-27 Surrey Street (1941, 1943)
Cadogan Arms, 47 Sloane Street (1942)
Druid's Head, 9 Brighton Place (1942)
Shakespeare's Head, 1 Chatham Place (1942)
Gardener's Arms, 40 Islingword Road (1942)
Lennox Arms, 13 Richmond Street (1942)
Flyman's Home, 103 Richmond Street (1942)
Prince of Wales, 47 Clarence Square (1943)
Cleveland Arms, 27a Cleveland Road** (1943)
Bat and Ball, 51 Ditchling Road (1943)
Canteen, 20-21 Gloucester Street (1943)
Crown Brewery Shades, 17-18 Jubilee Street (1943)

PERSONAL
14 Coleman Street [childhood residence 1871]
Wheatsheaf, 27 Bond Street PH [family residence 1881]
11 Caledonian Road [residence 1899-1924]
12a North Place [residence 1925-1948]
Packham & Sons Building firm.
     
PERSONAL
• 1-2 South Road [1901-1917]
• 9 Middle Road, Preston [1901-1917]
Packham, Sons & Palmer Building firm.
     
PERSONAL
• 1-2 South Road [1902-1915]
• 36 Middle Road, Preston [1901-1915]
PALMER, E[lias] William FRIBA
1909-1986
Architect.
      Born in Camberwell, he trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic and estalished his practice in London in 1933, which became E William Palmer & Partners in the 1950-1970s, based in Enfield, Middlesex. He lived in Eastbourne at the time of his death.
WORK
30-36 (even) Chichester Drive East, Saltdean (1934)
PALMER, Frank
1871-1959
Building contractor and surveyor.
      Born in Brighton, son of a builder's foreman. Joiner and carpenter, living in Lambeth, London (1901). Building contractor and surveyor in Brighton by 1906.
WORK
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Dyke Road (Staff dining room, extension to nurses home, 1925)

PERSONAL
33 West Hill Street [childhood home 1881]
15 Highcroft Villas [residence 1906-26]
PARNACOTT, William Samuel
1856-1921
Surveyor, architect, house and estate agent, auctioneer.
      Born in Bath, Somerset, son of a missionary for chair- and fly-men. His firm was known as W S Parnacott & Co by 1899 and later Parnacott & Son—the son being Frederick William Parnacott (1880-1953)—but in Census1911 he is a 'rate and tax collector'. He is buried in Portslade Cemetery.
WORK
Primitive Methodist Chapel, 49-50 High Street, Kemp Town (1886) [now Windsor Lodge]
Queen's Park (Primitive) Methodist Church, Queen's Park Road (1891) [now commercial]

PRACTICE
37 Duke Street [1887-1903]
61 London Road [1889]
17 Ship Street [1890-1895]
PERSONAL
112 Ditchling Rise [residence 1886-1889]
82 Beaconsfield Villas [residence 1901]
16 Station Road, Portslade [residence 1911-1921]
PARR, A R
Architect. WORK
Baptist Church, North Road, Portslade (1892, demolished 1960)
PARSEY, William
Civil engineer and surveyor. WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
69 Lansdowne Place [1882-1884]
PARSONS, F
Building contractor and estate agent. WORK
247, Homefield, and 249, Claremont, Dyke Road (1906)

PERSONAL
Grove End, 24 York Villas [1901-1910]
Parsons & Son Architects.
WORK
Ellen Street Board Schools (repairs 1881)
The Eclipse, Montgomery Street [extended 1895], now The Poets' Corner

PERSONAL
163 North Street [practice 1912]
43a Dyke Road [residence 1912]
Parsons, J & Son Building contractor. WORK
Withdean Court, London Road (1871)

PERSONAL
176 Church Road, 20 Marmion Road and Fonthill Road [1910]
PATCHING, Richard Sr
1779-1850
PATCHING, Richard Jr
1805-1885
PATCHING, Edward Brady
1841-1902
PATCHING, Walter B
1880-1923
Richard Patching Sr. Builder.
      Born in Brighton into a Quaker family. Bricklayer in London (1805) but moved to Brighton by 1807. Described as 'gentleman' when he died at Barcombe, leaving £2,106 11s 3d.
Richard Patching Jr. Builder.
      His partnership with his father as builders and dealers in building materials in Brighton was dissolved in 1828. Employed 46 men and 6 lads (1851, 1871). Lived in Balcombe (1880-1881). Surveyor and inpeector of public works in Brighton (1891).
E B Patching. Builder, architect and surveyor.
      Son of Richard Patching. Employed 16 men (1881). His remains and those of his son Walter were removed from the Quaker Burial Ground in Rifle Butt Road to the Lawn Memorial Park, Woodingdean in 1972.
Walter B Patching. Architect. [right]
      Born in Barcombe, son of E B Patching. Unemployed in 1911. Living in Lewes when he enrolllowed in the army in 1915. He died in Southend-on-Sea and was buried with his father in Brighton.
WORK
37, 39, 41 Stanley Road (1875)
95. 97 Ditchling Rise (1876)
149. 151 Preston Road (1877)
133-139 (odd) Ditchling Rise (1877)
9-29 (odd), 14-30 (even) Yardley Street (1877)
9-29 (odd), 14-30 (even) Yardley Street (1877)
9-29 (odd), 14-30 (even) Yardley Street (1898)

PERSONAL
32 Duke Street [Richard and Richard family home possibly two houses <1834-1871]
19 Buckingham Place [Richard and EB family home 1851]
PERSONAL (Richard Jr)
36 Camelford Street [1869]
PERSONAL (E B)
40 Rose Hill Terrace [1874-1875, 1887-1902]
PERSONAL (Walter)
137 Trafalgar Road [residence 1909-1910]
33 Rose Hill Terrace [boarding 1911]
Patching & Son
Building contactors. WORK
1,3,5 Robertson Road (1891)

BUSINESS
44 Portland Street [1910]
PEACH, Charles Stanley
1858-1934
Architect.
      Born in Scotland and trained to be a doctor before spending some time in the Rockies in the USA and returning to London to join the architectural practice of H R Gough in 1882 and starting his own practice in London in 1884. He specialised in the merging market for power stations and was architect to several electricity companies and served on the Works Committee of St Paul's Cathedral. His works include the All-England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon, including the original Centre Court.
231 Preston Road (shop, 1894)
4-32 (even) and 3-19 (odd) Lauriston Road (1898, 1902)
201-205 (odd) Preston Road
Preston Manor, Preston Drove (renovation and enlargement, 1905)
7,9,11 South Road, Preston (offices, shops, 1907-1908)
PEARSON, John Loughborough RA FRIBA
1817-1897
PEARSON, Frank Loughborough FRIBA
1864-1947
J L Pearson. Architect.
      Born in Brusssels, Belgium and grew up in Durham. Pupil of Philip Hardwick. Designed many churches after establishing his own practice from 1843 in Gothic Revival style, noted for the use of vaulting, in particular at Truro Cathedral: 198 churches he built or worked on are listed buildings. He is buried in Westminster Abbey, for which he had restored the north transept. He left £53,487 19s 10d.
Frank Pearson. Architect.
      Son of J L Pearson, whose practice he joined in 1881, becoming a partner in 1890, and whose work on All Saints he completed. He left £37,063 8s 7d.
WORK
St Barnabas' Church, Byron Street/Sackville Road (1882-83)
All Saints Church, The Drive (1889-91)
All Saints Vicarage, Wilbury Road (1891)
Pell Bros Architects. WORK
• 3 pairs of flats, New Church Road (1898)
• 3 houses on west side of Rutland Gardens

PRACTICE
185 Church Road (1899)
PERRIN, W E
Building contactor. WORK
No work identified so far.

PREMISES
1 Richardson Road
PERTWEE, C E
Architect and surveyor. WORK
No work identified so far.

PREMISES
19 Denmark Villas [1883-1886]
PETT, Harold Milburn
1883-1966
Architect.
Assistant to Clayton & Black. Own practice by 1912. Architect for the Diocese of Chichester.
WORK
St Leonard's Church, New Church Road (alterations, addition of spire, 1936)

PERSONAL
16 Worcester Villas [1912]
28 Stanford Road [residence]
PETTS, John
1914-1991
Artist and designer.
      London-born but moved to Wales in his early twenties and latterly settled in Abergavenny. Noted for engraving and stained glass, his two most noted works being the windows in the Reform Synagogue in Hove1 and the 'Black Jesus' memorial to a racially motivated bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for which he raised funding from the people of Wales.
WORK
Holocaust Window, Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue, Palmeira Avenue (1967)

1Imperial War Museum
PHILIPS, Henry
1779-1840
Landscape gardener and writer on horticulture.
      Born in Henfield, previously a teacher and banker, he worked extensively in Brighton during the Regency and Georgian era, frequently with Amon Henry Wilds, including collaboration on the design of The Level. He became a leading botanist and horticulturist in the early 19th century. He proposed a giant botanical glasshouse structure, the Anthaeum, that was constructed at the northern end of Wilds' Oriental Place, where Palmeira Square now stands. The collapse of the massive domed conservatory on the day before its official opening in 1822 caused such a shock that Philips went blind. Philips was subsequently imprisoned at Horsham for 'pecuniary difficulties'.
WORK
The Level, Ditchling Road (1822)
The Antheum, Adelaide Crescent
Marine Square and other Kemp Town enclosures (gardens)

PERSONAL
Brunswick Square [residence 1823- ]
Regent Place [residence]
26 Russell Square [residence -1840, deathplace]
PHIPPS, C J (Charles John)
1835-1897
Architect.
Specialist in theatres.
WORK
Theatre Royal, New Road (reconstruction of the auditorium, stage-house and façade, 1866)
PINKERTON, Godfrey FRIBA
1858-1937
Architect.
      Born at Godstone, Surrey. He studied at Liverpool School of Art and had his own practice in London from 1884.
WORK
London & County Bank, 42 London Road (1893) then National Westminster Bank, closed since 2018
parish room, 47 Paradise Place (1894)
London & County Bank, 155-158 North Street (1905) now National Westminster Bank
POLLARD, Robert William
1855-1901
Architect and surveyor.
      Born in Brighton, son of a tallow chandler. Assistant in an architect's office (1871).
WORK
62-66 (even) Tivoli Crescent (1890-1891)
26-28 Richmond Road (1892)
10, 12 Hartington Villas (1893)
121-127 (odd) Bonchurch Road (1895, 1897)
9, 11 Kingsley Road (1896)
4-14 (even) Freehold Terrace (1899)

PRACTICE
7 Havelock Road [1884-1886]
108 Church Street [1890-97]
11 Prince Albert Street [1898-1901]
PORDEN, William
c1755-1822
Architect. WORK
Royal Stables (The Dome), Church Street
55 Old Steine (Steine House)
POUNE, John
1795-1867
Surveyor.
      Born in Brighton, son of James Poune. He became an undertaker before 1841.
WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
Upper Rock Gardens [practice 1824]
31 New Road [1841-1851]
POUNE, Stephen
-1803
Brighton builder, master carpenter and timber merchant, property owner.
      He was a churchwarden at the parish church, a member of The Twelve and Constable of Brighthelmston in 1768.
COMMEMORATION
Poune's Court

PERSONAL
14 Russell Street, 60,61,62 West Street [properties owned, possibly including his residence 1799-1800]
POWELL, J H
Designer.
      Nephew of John Hardman, in whose firm he replaced A W N Pugin.
WORK
St Paul's Church, West Street (lectern)
PROCTOR, Edward
Architect. WORK
St Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church, Holland Road
PUGIN, Augustus Welby Northmore
1812-1852
Architect and designer.
      Pioneer of the Gothic Revival movement. Born in London, son of a French draughtsman who escaped the French Revolution. His most famous work is the interiors of the Palace of Westminster and the now-named Elizabeth Tower.
WORK
St Helen's Church, Hangleton Way (glass)
PUTTICK, William
1863-1931
Architect.
      Son of an accountant. Died at Canterbury.
WORK
41, 43, 48, 50, 54-66 (even) Florence Road (1890, 1891, 1894)
• 4 houses in Stoneham Road (1900)
• 2 houses in Windlesham Gardens (1911)

PERSONAL
26 Buckingham Street [childhood home]
17 Prince Albert Street [practice 1885-1886]
41 Park Crescent [1891)]
56 East Street [practice 1899-1912]
33 Park Crescent [residence 1901]
4 Park Crescent [residence 1911]
Puttick & Puttick Architectural firm. WORK
No work identified so far.

PRACTICE
82 Queen's Road (Terminus Gates) [1890]
     

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