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D	Census districts lists	references
D'Aubigny Road BN2 3FT Round Hill conservation area (1-17 odd, 4-12 even).	Duc D'Aubigny was a French title inherited by the Duke of Richmond in 1860. Renumbered 20 April 1881¹. †Lewes Road Station was at the corner with Richmond Road. On the discontinued Kemp Town line, it opened on 1 September 1873 and closed to passengers in 1933. The buildings were used as a pickle factory until demolished in the 1950s. The station was removed after the line closed to goods traffic in 1971.	Pa1883— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/213
Dale Avenue, Patcham BN1 8NJ	Named July 1928¹, numbered 23 May 1929².	Ke1932— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/270 ²ESRO DB/D/27/147
Dale Drive, Patcham BN1 8LD	The road was constructed of concrete slabs laid by German prisoners-of-war.	Ke1934—
Dale View, Hove BN3 8LA, 8LB, 8LF	Bungalows. Hangleton Primary School. See Northease Drive.	Ke1947—
Dale View Gardens, Hove BN3 8LU		Ke1947—
Dallington Road, Hove BN3 5HS	Part of the Glen Estate. Road laid out on former allotments by George Burstow for J V Franklin¹.	To1899— ESRO DO/C/6/1573 (13 April 1897)
Danehill Road, Whitehawk BN2 5PE, 5PY	Numbered 19 November 1959¹.	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/364
Darcey Drive BN1 8LF	Crescent of nine pairs of two-storey semi-detached houses on Carden Avenue.	Ke1934—
Dartmouth Close, Lower Bevendean BN2 4HZ	Cul-de-sac off Dartmouth Crescent.	Ke1973—
Dartmouth Crescent, Lower Bevendean BN2 4HY	Cul-de-sac off Fitch Drive.	Ke1973—
Davey Drive, Hollingdean BN1 7BE, 7BF, 7BJ	Alderman Henry Davey was mayor of Brighton in 1878-1880.	Ke1954—
Davigdor Road, Hove BN3 1 GN, 1QB, 1QD, 1RB, 1RE, 1RF, 1SJ	Part of the Wick Estate, it was known as Goldsmid Road—of which this road was a westward extension—until 1900. What is now Goldsmid Road was part of Brighton until a municipal boundary change in 1928, which moved it to Hove. Properties were renumbered when the boundary was adjusted by moving it about 50m eastward to the junction with Windlesham Gardens; the current 8-16 were formerly 2-10. The D'Avigdor family was linked to the Goldsmid family; in 1896 Sir Osmond Elim D'Avigdor, great-great-grandson of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, adopted the surname D'Avigdor-Goldsmid when he inherited the baronetcy on the death of Sir Julian Goldsmid. (See also Julian Road.) The trees on the north side date from 1905, those on the south side from 1908. Church of St Thomas the Apostle (now St Mary and St Abraham Coptic Orthodox Church) was the work of local architects Clayton & Black and opened in 1909 as the Church of St Thomas the Apostle. It closed as an Anglican church in 1993 and was reconsecrated for the Coptic faith by Pope Shenuda of Alexandria. A set of paintings of the Stations of the Cross by local artist Harry R Mileham was moved after the closure to St Mary's in St James's Street. Footpath to Nizells Avenue adjacent to the church was created in 1908¹. 5, D'Avigdor House was the residence of Bertie Rex O'Bryen Hoare. 12, Windlesham Mansions was built by T Garrett in 1907 as the Windlesham Club. It is on the B&H local list. It had its own rectangular bowling green behind nos 12-16 used for back development. 141, Spitfire House is a three-storey office building, built on the site of an electricity sub-station. It sold in December 2021 for £5.025m.	Pi1901— ¹ESRO DO/C/6/3085
Dawlish Close, Bevendean BN2 4NB	Cul-de-sac.
De Courcel Road, Kemp Town BN2 5RZ, 5TF	From Arundel Road to Boundary Road. Baron Alphonse de Courcel was the French Ambassador to the UK 1894-1898, who laid the foundation stone for the French Convalescent Home. (Quite interestingly, de Courcel is the maiden name of the wife of former French President Jacques Chirac.) French Convalescent Home was founded by Dr Achille Ventras to take convalescents from the French Hospital and Dispensary in Shaftesbury Avenue, London, soon becoming also a retirement home. The architects were Clayton and Black. The foundation stone was laid by Baron de Courcel on 5 October 1895 and the home was officially opened by him on 8 October 1898, although building continued until 1907. It was run by sisters of the Servants of the Sacred Heart religious order until 1987. The east wing was added in 1912. It closed in 1999 and, after being given Grade II listing in January 2000 to forestall demolition, was converted to residential use, known as the French Apartments.	Pi1901—
De Montfort Road BN2 3AU, 3AW	Simon de Montfort (c1208-1265) defeated and captured Henry III at Lewes in 1264. Renumbered 7 January 1886¹. 1, now a private residence, was formerly the Emmanuel Full Gospel Church.	Pa1877— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/243
Deacons Drive, Portslade BN41 2FJ	Built 1934.	Ke1947—
Dean Close, Hangleton BN2 6RN	No thoroughfare.	Ke1964—
Dean Close, Portslade BN41	Elongated cul-de-sac from Dean Gardens.	Ke1964—
Dean Court Road, Rottingdean BN2 7DE, 7DG, 7DH, 7DL Rottingdean conservation area.	Numbered 27 March 1958¹. Tudor Close was developed by Charles Neville of the Saltdean Estate Company in the late 1920s as houses but almost immediately was converted into a hotel in imitation of a Tudor manor house. It became fashionable for a time, attracting even film stars like Bette Davis and Cary Grant. The prototype of the board game Cluedo was called Murder at Tudor Close, inspired by murder mystery games staged at the hotel. It was converted back to houses and flats in the 1950s. 1-9 and 16-29 are Grade II listed². 1-5 (odd) Tudor Cottages were converted in Tudorbethan style for residential use in the 1930s from buildings of the Manor or Court Farm. On the B&H local list. 8, 10 are early 20th century examples of mock Tudor, probably pre-dating Tudor Close. On the B&H local list. 39, 41 are on the B&H local list. The Tudor Close hotel featured in the 1949 film The Adventures of Jane.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/353 ²HE 1380426
Dean Gardens, Portslade BN41 2FW, 2FX		Ke1964—
Dean Street BN1 3EG Montpelier and Clifton Hill conservation area.	Built 1820s. Numbering is sequential from the south-east corner. [ph] 29 was the Gasman's Arms beerhouse from c1839 to 1859. [ph] 32 was the Alliance beerhouse from c1839 to 1908. ph 38, Brighton Beer Dispensary was a beerhouse known no later than 1867 as The Prince Arthur. The name changed c2013.	Ke1845—
Dean's Close, Woodingdean BN2 6RN	Cul-de-sac off Downs Valley Road. Named and numbered 21 December 1954¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/322
Deanway, Hove BN3 6DG		Ke1969—
Delfryn, Portslade BN41 2RZ	Private road off Southon Close.	Ke1969—
The Dene, Hangleton BN3 8BY	Short cul-de-sac off Spencer Avenue.	Ke1954— (under Spencer Avenue)
∫ Dene Court Avenue, Withdean	Renamed Withdean Court Avenue 30 July 1936¹.	Pi1926–Ke1937 ¹ESRO DB/D/27/282
Dene Vale, Westdene BN1 5ED	Named 5 April 1938¹, beign in Westdene. Numbered 10 October 1939². Church of the Ascension is associated with All Saints, Patcham. †Newman's Barn stood on the north side, the site now occupied by a pavilion (now a nursery). It was conveyed to Brighton Corporation under a covenant to maintain the land as a public open space. During the Second World War, the adjoining stockyard (now playground) was requisitions by the East Sussex County War Agricultural Executive Commitee.³	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/40 ²ESRO DB/D/27/58 ³ESRO DB/A/1/143
Deneside, Westdene BN1 5EN	Numbered 7 February 1957¹.	Ke1956— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/343
Deneway, The, Withdean BN1 5AZ, 8QR	Numbered 26 March 1953¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/308
∫Denis Road	Name of St Leonard's Avenue when first laid out in 1909.	¹ESRO DO/C/6/3251
Denmark Mews, Hove BN3 3TX	U-shaped private road off the west side of Denmark Villas. 'No dwelling places' in Pa1893.	Pa1893–Ke1949
Denmark Road, Portslade BN41 1GJ	East side comprises two-storey terraced and semi-detachedhouses. West side is two pairs of two-storey semi-detached houses and two three-storey blocks of flats, built c2007. Numbering is sequential from the north-each corner	Ke1947—
Denmark Terrace BN1 3AN	Built late 1860s. Previously this was part of Montpelier Road. Two properties listed 'and other houses unfinished' in Pa1865. Brighton and Hove High School for Girls. Originally a domed mansion called The Temple, built for £15,000 in 1819 by Amon & Amon Henry Wilds for Thomas Read Kemp in a then isolated position (until 1834). The house was so named because it was intended to be built to the same dimensions as King Solomon's Temple. Kemp lived there until October 1827, when it was put up for sale but rented from 1828 on a 21 year lease as a boys' school. It was eventually sold in 1842. The High School has occupied the building since 1880. The south-west wing was added, as inscribed, by the Girls Public Day School Company in 1891. The building and the walls to the south and east are Grade II listed¹. (See also Norfolk Terrace.) Early Regency Society plaque to Thomas Read Kemp.	Pa1865— ¹HE 1389120, 1380427
Denmark Villas, Hove BN3 3TD, 3TE, 3TH, 3TJ, 3TR Denmark Villas conservation area (1-65 odd,2-56 even, including Granville Court). Hove Station conservation area (Ralli Hall, 58-86 even, shops/office block, 67-79 odd, land to rear of 51-79 odd).	Stanford estate. 'And other houses building' in Pa1873-1875. 1-13 were originally known as Hova Terrace¹. 49 Denmark House was at one time owned by the notorious Nicholas van Hoogstraten. †Lido Cinema was on the east side next to Hove Station. It was designed by Robert F Cromie (see also 137 Kingsway) and opened by the Hove mayor Councillor E J J Thompson on 6 May 1932, converted from a failed skating rink that had been built on the site of market gardens and a jam factory. Cliftonville Water Works was here in the 1870s. The skating rink was acquired by Odeon Cinemas in September 1939, renamed the Odeon on 30 July 1944 and closed on 18 February 1961. It was converted into a Top Rank bowling alley, which opened in July 1961 but was unable to survive against competition from the King Alfred bowling alley on Kingsway that opened at the same time. The building was sold in 1969 and demolished in 1970 to be replaced by a nondescript block of shops and flats that includes the Royal Mail delivery office. Ralli Memorial Hall was designed by architects Read and Macdonald and built by Chapman, Lowry and Puttock in 1913 as a community centre in memory of Stephen Augustus Ralli (1829-1902), head of the international merchant trading firm Ralli Brothers, by his wife. The foundation stone is dated 14 April 1913. The building is Grade II listed. Denmark Villas appeared in The Gelignite Gang (1954).	[1851] Pa1873— ¹OS1873
Denmark Villas CA	Conservation area, designated in 1984, comprising 3.0ha (7.42 acres).	Character statement Map
Dennis Hobden Close, Bevendean BN2 4BZ	Built 2005 (?) on the site of the former Bevendean Hospital. Dennis Hobden was MP for Brighton Kemptown 1964-1970.
Denton Drive, Patcham BN1 8DL, 8LR, 8LS		Ke1949—
† Derby Place	From 55 Edward Street to Carlton Hill. Number of properties in 1822: 31. A narrow street of poor housing built soon after 1800 and one of four such streets demolished in the slum clearance of the mid 1890s for the construction of White Street and Blaker Street. ph †16 was the Derby Arms beerhouse. ph †30 was the Plumber's Arms beerhouse. †Grosvenor Cottages. Image: Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust	Ba1822—
Derek Avenue, Hove BN3 4PE, 4PF	20 semi-detached houses were built by W F Andrews in 1928¹	Pi1929— ¹ESRO DO/C/6/6645
Desmond Way, Whitehawk BN2 5PN	Numbered April 1958 and 4 December 1958¹.	Ke1960— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/364
Devil's Dyke Road BN1 8YJ, 8YL	From Dyke Road Avenue to Devil's Dyke. Brighton & Hove Golf Club opened in October 1887. It was served by Golf Club Halt on the Brighton & Dyke railway line between 1891 and 1939. South of the club house is an enclosure known as Skeleton Hovel, so named because of the discovery of an ancient burial ground.
Devonshire Place BN2 1QB, 1WB, 1QH, 1QJ East Cliff conservation area.	Under construction 1809⁵. The 6th Duke of Devonshire lived in Lewes Crescent from 1828 to 1858. Number of properties in 1822: 25. Number is sequential from the south-west corner, returning down the east side. A pillar letter box stood on the south-west corner. An experiment with a pneumatic or atmospheric railway was held here in 1828¹⁰. Devonshire Mansions replaced Devonshire House, which was here by 1864. It comprises seven flats. 10-11, attributed to Wilds and Busby c1825, are Grade II listed¹. 15 was the residence of artist Francis Arundale and family (his wife was a portrait painter) from 1845. (See also 27½ East Street.) 16-18, attributed to Wilds and Busby c1825, are Grade II listed⁸. 36, attributed to Wilds and Busby c1825, is Grade II listed ⁶. 37, 37A are Grade II listed ⁷. 38-39 was a synagogue from 1824 until 1874, designed by Benjamin Bennett and enlarged in 1837 by David Mocatta and again in 1867. The building was sold off in 1876² . It is now remodelled behind the original façade and used for commercial purposes, most recently as a fitness club that closed in June 2004. Grade II listed³. 40, 41, 41B, attributed to Wilds and Busby c1825, are Grade II listed⁹. 42-43 and the lamppost in front are Grade II listed⁴. New Steine Mansions was formerly the New Steine Hotel, built on the site of the Devonshire Assemble Rooms and here by 1864. It comprises 16 flats.	Ba1822— ¹HE 1380428 ²Jtrails ³HE 1380432 ⁴HE 1380434, 1380435 ⁵Attree's Topography of Brighton, 1809:23 ⁶HE 1380430 ⁷HE 1380431 ⁸HE 1380429 ⁹HE 1380433 ¹⁰Brighton Gazette, 14 Aug 1828:2a
† Devonshire Street	From 64 Edward Street to Devonshire Terrace. See previous entry for derivation. No properties listed after Ke1964. [ph] †18 was the Carpenter's Arms beerhouse from c1832 to 1854.	Br1846–Ke1968
† Devonshire Terrace	From 31½ Grosvenor Street to 19 Mount Pleasant. Small houses.	Ke1845–Ke1968
Dewe Road BN2 4BD, 4BE	The land was given by then mayor John Blaker for some of the first council houses in Brighton. The design was open to competition among local architects, judged by the Sanitary Committee, and won by Thomas Garrett and W C F Gillam. William Tombs Dewé was a Brighton councillor and borough magistrate at the end of the 19th century. Numbered 4 September 1902¹.	Pi1901— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/77
† Diamond Jubilee Terrace	Opposite the Barracks, Lewes Road. Listed only in 1898 so obviously marking the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.	To1898
† Dinapore Place	Former street between Richmond Street and Sussex Street, roughly opposite Newark Street, lost in redevelopment c.1960. Dinapore House in John Street is on part of the site. Dinapore (now Danapur) was a British military garrison in the district of Patna, India.
† Dinapore Street	A wall across Richmond Street between Claremont Place and Dinapore Street was built to stop runaway vehicles on the 1:5 incline. Badly damaged in the centre section of the west side by bombing during the Second World War, the road was lost in the slum clearance and development of the high-rise social housing flats in Grove Hill: the access roadway from Albion Hill to the Richmond Heights block follows the line of the former street. [ph] †24 was the Gun Inn from 1874 to 1926.	Fo1861–Ke1966
† Ditchley Terrace	Error for Ditchling Terrace?	[1851]
Ditchling Crescent, Hollingbury BN1 8DG	Numbered 22 February 1962¹.	Ke1964— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/403
Ditchling Gardens BN1 6JX	Bungalow development behind the east side of Ditching Road.	Ke1973—
Ditchling Place BN1 6NW	Small 'back development' of six houses behind Hollingbury Road accessed via Ditchling Gardens.	Ke1964—
Ditchling Rise BN1 4QL, 4QN, 4QP, 4QQ	25 had the workshop of Alfred Darling in the yard at the rear until 1926, where he made some of the world's first cinematograph cameras. 41 was the residence of Alderman Edward Lowther. ph 76-78, The Signalman, formerly the Railway Hotel, was designed by H J Lanchester and built in 1877 in association with London Road Station in Shaftesbury Place opposite. On the B&H local list. 83 was the family residence of cinematograph engineer Alfred Darling, who moved here from 47 Chester Terrace.	Pa1878—
Ditchling Road BN1 4JA, 4SB, 4SD, 4SE, 4SF, 4SG, 4SU Preston Park conservation area (143, 143a, 143b, 145-253 odd, 253b/c/d, Downs Junior School). Round Hill conservation area (68-132 even). Valley Gardens conservation area (1-91 odd, 2-10 even).	The section opposite The Level was originally called Brunswick Place North, built on Thomas Kemp land. The section from Upper Lewes Road to Hollingdean Road renumbered 20 April 1881¹. Further numbering 16 August 1900² and 3 March 1910³. Section from Osborne Road northwards numbered 10 October 1939⁴. WEST SIDE (south to north) —Here is Queen's Place. 3, designed by A H Wilds c1815, is Grade II listed⁵. 5-13, built c1815, are Grade II listed⁶. —Here is Brunswick Row. —Here is Oxford Place. ph 39, Caroline of Brunswick (formerly 21 Brunswick Road North) dates from no later than 1820. It was originally The Brunswick Arms, renamed to commemorate the wife of the Prince Regent, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821). ph 51, Bat and Ball was a beerhouse by the 1840s, known as the North Star in 1854, the Plumbers' Arms in 1859, the North Star again in 1864 and the Bat and Ball from 1882. It was modified by Arthur Packham in 1943. —Here is Oxford Street. [ph] 65 was the North Star from 1843. It was owned by Charrington when it closed. It has retained its leaded stained glass windows and door panels. —Here is Francis Street. ph 81, Druids was known as the Druids Arms by 1854. —Here is Baker Street. ph 85 was the Northern Tavern, owned by Tamplins until c2014. A tile street name was on the corner of the building until then. —Here is Kingsbury Street. —Here is Rose Hill Close. —Here is Viaduct Road. 95 was designed by W & E Habershon (see also Church Road Hove and St John's Place) and built in 1854 as the Chichester Diocesan Training College for Schoolmistresses. It became the Brighton Business Centre in 1985. Grade II listed⁸,as are the walls¹². —Here is Orchard Walk. —Here is Warleigh Road. —Here is Vere Road. †133-135 St Saviour's Church was here. Designed by Edmund Scott of Brighton architects Scott and Cathorne and built in 1886. Planning approval for a chancel was applied for on 15 July 1897⁹. A reredos came from Chichester Cathedral. The gateway arch with the church's name remains between 34 and 36 Vere Road. It closed in 1970, was demolished in 1983 and replaced by St Saviours Court apartment block. St Saviour's Parsonage. 1881. —Here is Ditchling Rise. —Here is Springfield Road. —Here is Florence Road. —Here is Rugby Road. Downs Junior School. See Rugby Road. —Here is Grantham Road. —Here is Hayloft Mews. —Here is St Andrew's Road. —Here is Semley Road. —Here are Stanford Avenue and Preston Drove. —Here is Hythe Road. [265-275] is King's Parade, which is separately numbered. —Here is Sandgate Road. —Here is Ashford Road. —Here is Dover Road. —Here is Osborne Road. †Hill Gate toll, at the southern end of the Newchapel, Lindfield & Brightonhelmston Turnpike, was on the then municipal boundary, just north of Osborne Road. —Here is Beacon Close. —Here is Balfour Road. —Here is Friar Road. —Here is Surrenden Park. —Here is Hollingbury Copse. —Here is Surrenden Road. —Here is Woodbourne Avenue. —Here is Coldean Lane. EAST SIDE (south to north) The Level was laid out in 1822 by architect A H Wilds and landscape gardener Henry Philips on open marshland previously used for events and fairs. Peripheral elm walks were added in 1844, a gift from the Earl of Chichester, railings and shrub planting 1877. A children's playground with boating pool was included in 1927 to designs by Bertie Hubbard MacLaren, superintendent of the Parks Department. Extensive refurbishment was completed in 2014. —Here is Union Road. 4-8 was the Lady Chichester Hospital, specialising in mental treatment for women and children, moving here from Round Hill Crescent, occupying no 8 in 1910 and briefly adding 4-6 two years later before moving to Brunswick Place. The Countess of Chichester was the widow of the 4th Earl of Chichester (see Pelham Square and Stanmer Park); she died in December 1911. 10 (Glen Roy) built April 1822, was formerly North Cottage, 4 Ditchling Terrace⁷. —Here is Upper Lewes Road. —Here is Bromley Road. †68-80 were previous 1-8 Round Hill Villas. —Here is Prince's Crescent. —Here is Round Hill Road. †100, The Roundhill was opened by Tamplins as The Round Hill Tavern in 1878. It was remodelled by Arthur Packham in 1938. —Here is Prince's Road. —Here is Hollingdean Lane. 136a, Ditchling Court is an three-storey apartment block in a back development accessed by a private road. 152-164, Downs Infant School. †154, Warleigh Lodge (formerly Elham Lodge) was built c1860 on land once owned by John Whichelo and was then the last house in the road. It was the residence, with his parents, of architect B Harold Dixon for over 30 years. Brighton Corporation compulsorily purchased it from D P Toomey & Co in 1972 to build the school.¹¹ ph 176, The Jolly Brewer (formerly 110) was remodelled after being acquired by local brewery Tamplins in 1874, although an inn was on this site possibly as early as before 1840. On the B&H local list. —Here is Florence Place. Tram shelter is on the B&H local list. It was built by William Noyce. —Here is Upper Hollingdean Road. —Here is Ditchling Gardens. —Here is Hollingbury Road. ph 292, Fiveways, formerly the Stanmer Park Hotel, was designed by Samuel Denman and built c1900 as a focal point of the Fiveways housing development. On the B&H local list. —Here is Hollingbury Terrace. St Matthias' Church. See 45 Hollingbury Park Avenue. —Here is Hollingbury Park Avenue. Land on the east side (180 acres), part of the Withdean Estate, was conveyed by Elizabeth Caroline Colebrooke Gordon Curwen and trustees to the Borough of Brighton in March 1901¹³ for use as parkland. —Here is Upper Roedale Cottages. Tram shelter opposite Surrenden Road is Grade II listed¹⁰.It was built by William Noyce. —Here is Coldean Lane.	Fo1850— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/207 ²ESRO DB/D/46/656 ³ESRO DB/D/46/787 ⁴ESRO DB/D/27/60 ⁵HE 1380436 ⁶HE 1380437 ⁷ESRO ACC8745/49 ⁸HE 1380440 ⁹ESRO DB/D/7/4556 ¹⁰HE 1380441 ¹¹image; image; ESRO R/C/4/75 ¹²HE 1380439 ¹³ESRO ACC 7600/22
∫ Ditchling Terrace	Former name of the southern section of Ditchling Road between Union Road and Upper Lewes Road. Included in Ditchling Road by 1900. 4 became 10 Ditchling Road.	Map1830s, Ke1845–To1899
∫ Dog Kennel Road	Former name of Hollingdean Road until c1864. The dogs were hounds for the Brighton Harriers, one of the numerous hunts in the area from Georgian times, and the kennels moved here from Preston Circus in the 1850s to occupy land donated by Thomas Read Kemp. A Jews' Burying Ground, the parish dust yard and later the municipal abattoir were also here.	Fo1856–Fo1862
† Dolphin Court¹	Brighton's coat-of-arms includes dolphins, used as a motif throughout the town. A block of flats with this name is in Hove Street (not in Brighton) but there is no known connection.	¹Brighton Ratebook 1826
Dolphin Mews BN2 1TY East Cliff conservation area.	Between Steine Street and Manchester Street. Brighton's coat-of-arms includes dolphins.
Donald Hall Road BN2 5DE, 5DF, 5DJ, 5DL, 5DN	Bristol Estate One of five street names commemorating senior staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital nearby; this one is Donald George Hall.
Donkey Mews, Hove BN3 1AW Brunswick Town conservation area.	Off Brunswick Street East. Donkeys used for rides on the beach were stabled here.
† Donkey Row, Edward Street	See North Steine Row.
Donnington Road, Woodingdean BN2 6WH	Numbered 1 March 1956¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/329
Dorothy Road, Hove BN3 7GR, 7GT	Part of the Stretton Estate to the north of the original Aldrington estate. Dorothy Mary Stretton (1883-19??), the twin sister of Margery, was one of the daughters of the land-owner, Joseph Harris Stretton. No properties listed before 1913.	Pi1909—
† Dorset Buildings	From 32 Edward Street to Carlton Hill. A narrow lane continuing the line of the western side of Dorset Gardens northwards. Access to Boss's Gardens was from the west side. The Edward Street Quarter is now on this site.	Census1841; Ke1845–Ke1960
Dorset Gardens BN2 1RL, 1SA East Cliff conservation area.	Dates from the 1790s. John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, leased ½ acre of land in Little Laine (encompassing this area) to John Hall and Thomas Tilt for a year in May 1798; Hall already owned an adjoining 1½ acre plot. The southern end was called Prospect Row. Number of properties in 1822: 33. The gardens were compulsorily purchased by Brighton Corporation in 1884 under the Brighton Improvement Act; the railings and walls—probably added around that time—are Grade II listed¹. 1 was built 1801-04 but perhaps as a development of an earlier house. Grade II listed². 7 and 12-18 were all built late 18th century. Grade II listed³. Dorset Gardens Wesleyan Church was originally built 1808 and enlarged 1840, but completely rebuilt by Liverpool architect C O Ellison 1884, with a further extension to the south in 1929-30. The whole was demolished in 2000 and a new church opened on the site of the later extension of the original church in 2003.	Ba1822— Marchant map 1809 ¹HE 1380446 ²HE 1380442 ³HE 1380444, 1380445
Dorset Place BN2 1ST	Cul-de-sac off Edward Street, all that remains of Cavendish Street.	Ke1972—
Dorset Street BN2 1WA	Number of properties in 1822: 17. †16 was the Town Mission ragged school in 1858.	Ba1822—
Dover Road BN1 6LN, 6LP East Cliff conservation area.	One of four adjacent roads in the Fiveways area named after Kent towns (see also Ashford, Hythe, Sandgate). No properties listed in Pi1901.	Pi1901—
Dower Close, Ovingdean BN2 7BW	Off Ainsworth Close. Bungalows, unusually with double garages beneath. The land was registered to South Land Development Company Limited in 1965¹	¹London Gazette 4 June 1965: 5376
The Down, Hove BN3 8FD	Cul-de-sac of bungalows off Hangleton Valley Road.
Down Terrace BN2 9ZH, 9ZJ, 9ZQ	Boundary of the Queen's Park development. Inter-war-years council housing development is on the north side. Featured in a film (2009) of that name by Ben Wheatley.	Pi1901—
Downash Close, Whitehawk BN2 5HQ	Cul-de-sac off Cooksbridge Road. Numbered 30 November 1983¹. Downash is a hanlet south-east of Hailsham and a wood north of Ticehurst.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/445
Downland Close, Woodingdean BN2 6DN	Named 3 January 1963¹ and numbered 6 February 1964².	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/400 ²ESRO DB/D/27/409
Downland Court, Portslade BN41 2PS	T-shaped cul-de-sac of three- and four-storey social housing off Stoney Road.
Downland Crescent, Hangleton BN3 8DH	Five pairs of two-storey semi-detached houses off Downland Drive.	Ke1956—
Downland Drive, Hangleton BN3 8GB, 8GJ, 8GL	Eastern most road of the south Hangleton estate, comprising 24 pairs of semi-detached and two detached two-storey houses.	Ke1951—
Downland Drive, Woodingdean BN2 6DJ, 6DL	Named 3 January 1963¹ and numbered 6 February 1964².	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/400 ²ESRO DB/D/27/409
Downland Road, Lower Bevendean	Formerly known as Reservoir Road. Numbered 21 June 1938¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/42
† Downs Court	Off Little Russell Street. No thoroughfare. Stables, etc.	1826-1851 Pa1881 only
∫ Downs Road	Former name of Falmer Road at Woodingdean.
Downs Valley Road, Woodingdean BN2 6RF, 6RG, 6RL, 6RP	Renamed from Valley Road 30 July 1936¹. Named and numbered 29 May 1954, 1 June 1954 and 25 March 1955, 7 June 1956 and 2 January 1958².	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/37 ²ESRO DB/D/27/230
Downside, Hove BN3 6QJ		Ke1960—
Downside, Westdene BN1 5EQ	Numbered 13 October 1953¹.	Ke1960— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/304
Downsview, Hangleton BN3 8EN
Downsview Avenue, Woodingdean BN2 6BP	Wick Estate. Numbered 29 April 1948¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/283
Downsview Road, Portslade BN41 2HQ		Ke1947—
Downsway, Woodingdean BN2 6BD	Numbered 30 August 1938¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/46
Draxmont Way, Surrenden BN1 6QF	B2123. Numbered 27 November 1972¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/436
Drive, The, Hove BN3 3EY, 3JA, 3JB, 3JD, 3JE The Avenues conservation area (2-6 consecutive). The Drive conservation area (51-79 odd, 52-66 even, All Saints Church, All Saints Church Hall). Willett Estate conservation area (7-49 odd, 8-50 even, 72, Eaton Manor, Drive Lodge, Baltimore Court, Philip Court).	(B2185). All Saints Church was built 1889-91, the east end being completed in 1901 and the tower in 1924. The architect was J L Pearson, whose work was continued after his death in 1897 by his son Frank Pearson. The fittings are by Nathaniel Hitch. It became the parish church of Hove in 1892 and is Grade I listed¹. Money for building the tower was left in the will of George Baldwin Woodruff². 16 The Gables was built 1882, designed by A Cresswell. Grade II listed³. 20 Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969), the novelist, lived here 1897-1915. She attended a school in Tisbury Road. Plaque. 51-53 and 52-54 are pairs of semi-detached villas built by William Willett early 1880s. Grade II listed⁴. 55-60 were built as detached villas by William Willett in the 1890s. Grade II listed⁵. 62 Whittinghame College, a Jewish boarding school, was founded here in 1931 by Jacob Halévy. It moved to Surrenden Road in 1934. 63 and 65 are semi-detached villas built by William Willett. Grade II listed⁶. 64 was the residence of William Willett senior from 1903 until his death. 67 was built by William Willett in the 1880s. It was the residence of Lady Elizabeth Alice Frances Hawkins-Whitshed in the late 1890s. Then in her third marriage, having been widowed twice, and known as Mrs Aubrey Le Blond, she was a pioneer female alpinist. She was probably the second or third woman in the world to make films in her own right. Some of the 10 films she made of alpine activities in Switzerland were included in James Williamson's film programmes at Hove Town Hall towards the end of 1900. Grade II listed⁷. 69 and 71 were designed by H B Measures and built by William Willett in 1887. Grade II listed⁸. 73, 75 and 79 were designed by H B Measures and built by William Willett in the 1880s. Grade II listed⁹. 76 is Grade II listed¹⁰ with 2-36 Cromwell Road. 79 was the Willett estate office in the 1890s.> †Fire alarm was installed at the junction with The Drive c1924¹⁰.	Pa1881— ¹HE 365637 ²ESRO PAR387/9/1/7 ³HE 365619 ⁴HE 365620-21 ⁵HE 365622-27 ⁶HE 1309791 ⁷HE 365629 ⁸HE 365630-31 ⁹HE 365632-33, 365635 ¹⁰James Gray Collection
Drive, The	Conservation area, designated in 1977 and extended in 1985, comprising 3.18ha (7.86 acres).	Character statement Map
Drove, The, Falmer	B2123.
Drove, The, Patcham BN1 5AF, 5NN	Former name of Ladies Mile Road. Numbered 20 February 1951¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/295
Drove Avenue	Track from Falmer Road across Newmarket Hill to Kingston Ridge. It follows the line of a Romano-British road from Chichester that continued from Elm Grove¹	^1>Eliot Curwen and Eliot Cecil Curwen: 'Sussex lynchets and their associated field-ways' in Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol 64. Cambridge: W Heffer & Sons, 1923
Drove Cottages, Patcham	See 36-42 Ladies Mile Road.
Drove Crescent, Portslade BN41 2TA, 2TB		Ke1949—
† Drove Place, Hove	Also called Hove Drove Place before becoming Sackville Road.	Pa1881–Pa1884
Drove Road, Portslade BN41 2PA Portslade conservation area (Bestwood Works, Manor Cottage, 18-42 even).	The roads dwindles to a footpath to Mile Oak Road at the western end. The original 12th-century Manor House, a Grade II* listed Ancient Monument, is mostly a ruin in the grounds of Manor House repalced a former manor and was built in 1807 by the Borrer family. It was bought in 1904 by Miss Kathleen Concepta Nelson and given to the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, an order of Catholic nuns from St Mary's Convent, Roehampton, of which she had been a postulant¹. A chapel and accommodation wing were added in 1933. The gardens are a mostly preserved example of 19th century manor gardens and includes the nuns' burial ground; they are on the B&H local list.The convent closed in 1996 and the site was re-opened by the Emmaus Community in February 1997². Malthouse and brewery, now light industrial premises, date from the mid 19th century and were probably associated with the Southdown Brewery in South Street, Portslade. Grade II listed³. Peter Gladwin Primary School is on land sold by the Poor Servants of the Mother of God. 18, 20 were built as accommodation for workers at Portslade Manor. Now private dwellings. On the B&H local list.	To1902— ¹ESRO amsh/AMS5600/1 ²Emmaus ³HE 1280748
∫ Drove Road, Withdean	Former name of Peacock Lane.
† Drove Terrace, Hove	Following 29 Sackville Road. No thoroughfare.	[1881] Pa1882
Drovers Close, Portslade BN41 2QE
Droveway, The Hove BN3 6AU, 6LE, 6LF, 6LU, 6PP, 6PR, 6PY, 6QA Engineerium conservation area (Engineerium Complex [see also Woodland Drive], nursery and miniature railway).	Stanford Estate. Formerly called Waterworks Road, part of the old drove road from Saltdean to Portslade, following westward from The Drove and Preston Drove. The layout was dated November 1925¹, new sewer planned February 1926². 20a, The Atelier is a back development designed by Alan Phillips Associates and built in 2008. 25 is in moderne style, built in the 1930s. 65, Casablanca is in moderne style, built in 1936. Preston Farm stood on the north side, also known by the 1920s as Hole's [later: Hole's & Davigdor] Hygienic Dairies, becoming only a distribution depot after the Second World War; in the early 1960s it become South Coast Dairies and later still Dairy Crest until 2015. The site is now derelict, pending redevelopment. Mowden School moved here from Lansdowne Place by 1915 into a building designed by Charles Henry Bourne Quennell. It was evacuated to Market Harborough in 1939 and the premises requisitioned for use as King Alfred II early in 1940 (see also Kingsway).	Ke1923— ¹ESRO DO/C/8/832 ²ESRO DO/C/8/858
Dudley Road, Hollingdean BN1 7GL, 7GN	'No houses' in Pi1909-1912 and only one (Dudley House) listed 1913-1926. Numbered 26 July 1928¹.	Pi1909— ¹
Dudwell Road, Woodingdean BN2 6RE	Named 19 November 1965 and numbered 7 July 1966¹.	Ke1969— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/440
† Duke Passage	Name in Ba1822. See Duke's Passage.
Duke Street BN1 1AG, 1AH Old Town conservation area.	Pre 1799. Formerly Cragg's Lane or Willett's Lane; also called Duke's Lane. Number of properties in 1822: 30⁵. The street was widened in the winter of 1867 and flint-faced houses to the south of Holy Trinity Chapel (see Ship Street) were removed at this time. much of the north side was rebuilt in 1869. A tender for the erection of seven houses and shops as part of the 'Duke Street Improvements' was awarded to H Parsons Jnr, who made the lowest (£5,200) of eight bids, Cheesman & Co and Patching & Sons being among other contenders⁶. 3a/4 housed the Voluntary Fire Brigade c1897¹. It was altered in 1904¹⁰. ph 6, The Victory dates at this site from 1766. It was remodelled in 1910 for Tamplins by Arthur Packham and is Grade II listed². 12-13 date from the early 19th century and are Grade II listed³. 22-23 was Holleyman & Treacher's secondhand bookshop, previously known as Duke Street Chambers. Duke's Court was behind here. 26 was Wisden's sports shop. —Here is Duke's Court. 34 was designed by T Timpson [Simpson?] for R H Perry's paper-hanging warehouse in 1869⁸. —Here is Duke's Passage. 35 was designed by Goulty & Gibbins in 1869 for plumbers and decorators Sendall & Son⁷. 36 was built for George Swain, baker and confectioner, in 1869 by C E Kempe, who tendered the price of £763⁹. 37A, built c1780, is Grade II listed⁴. Holy Trinity Chapel see Ship Street.	Co1799— ¹ESRO DB/D/7/4596 ²HE 1380449 ³HE 1380447 ⁴HE 1380448 ⁵Ba1822 ⁶The Building News, 25 March 1869:217a ⁷The Building News, 14 May 1869:447 ⁸The Building News, 30 April 1869:401 ⁹The Building News, 28 May 1869:495 ¹⁰The Builder, 2 April 1904:378
Duke's Court BN1 1AR	Behind 24-27 Duke Street, off Lewis's Buildings.	1826 Ta1854
Duke's Lane BN1 1BG Old Town conservation area.	Shopping and residential street created between Ship Street and Middle Street on the site of the former Dreadnought Garage. Designed by Stone Toms & Partners, it opened on 20 November 1979. This was also an early name for Duke Street.
Duke's Mound Kemp Town conservation area.	6th Duke of Devonshire lived opposite in Lewes Crescent 1828-1858.	Ke1973—
Duke's Passage BN1 1BS Old Town conservation area.	From 35 Duke Street to Lewis's Buildings. Number of properties in 1822: 8.	Ba1822–Ke1936
Dunster Close, Hollingdean BN1 7ED	Cul-de-sac off Horton Road.	Ke1954—
Durham Close, Lower Bevendean BN2 4LY	Cul-de-sac off Leybourne Road. Numbered 26 November 1964¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/417
† Durham Place¹	The location has not been traced.	¹Brighton Ratebook 1826
∫ Dyke Junction Halt	Former name (September 1905 to June 1932) of the station in Aldrington Avenue.
Dyke Close, Hove BN3 6DB	Cul-de-sac off Dyke Road Avenue.	Ke1934—
Dyke Road (A2010) BN1 3FE, 3JA, 3JB, 3JD, 3JE, 3JP; BN3 6EH, 6NF, 6PA, 6PD, 6TL, 6UY Montpelier and Clifton Hill conservation area (14, 37-55 odd, Brighton Tutorial Centre, Royal Alexandra Hospital, 61-65 Homelees House, 67-121 odd). West Hill conservation area (1-19 Derwent Court, 18-106 even).	The old road that leads to Devil's Dyke, formerly known as the road to Henfield or the road to Saddlescombe, which became a turnpike in 1777. The lowest part, below Upper North Street was developed in the late 17th/early 18th centuries; between Clifton Road and Seven Dials was built 1848-1853, and the section between these two stretches was not added until the latter half of the 1860s. The road heading north of Seven Dials was built as far as Russell Crescent in 1841 and called Peel Terrace when the railway line to Hove was installed. The west side of the road was designated the boundary between Brighton and Hove in 1873. The section below Seven Dials was once called Church Hill Road; the section below Upper North Street was part of North Street until 17 December 1952¹. Numbering was originally sequential from the south-west corner, returning down the east side. Houses on the west side north of Old Shoreham Road were not assigned numbers until 1952, when numbering became alternating, odd numbers on the west, even numbers on the east; the northern end of Dyke Road, where Dyke Road Avenue begins, was defined at Tivoli Crescent North. The difference in numbers was approximately 50 (eg, 12 became c61). Section from Upper North Street to Old Shoreham Road renumbered 23 October 1930². At this point (eg) 78 became 20; 12 became 61. • Numbers given here are as currently assigned, except as stated. Numbering April 1921³. WEST SIDE (south to north) —Here is Imperial Arcade. 11 (formerly North Street) was the Swan Downer School, designed by the architect George Somers Clarke, from 1867 to 1939. Swan Downer was a local merchant who left a bequest to create a school for 20 poor girls. It opened in 1816 in Gardner Street. A painting of the school by William Alfred Delamotte (c.1853-56) is in Brighton Art Gallery. The building, for a time a night club and now a small theatre and bar, is Grade II listed⁸. The night club featured in Die Screaming, Marianne (1971). 12, Lees House is a modern office building taking its name from the Lees Nursing Home which had the same address before renumbering (now the site of 61-67 Homelees House, below) but was not on this site. —Here is Upper North Street. This was the southern end of Dyke Road until 1952. St Nicholas Rest Gardens, across the road from the church. Amon Henry Wilds laid out the rest garden and designed the burial vaults on the north side in 1840. (He himself is buried in Shoreham.) In 1944 Oberleutnant Richard Pahl was killed when his Messerschmitt ME 410 crashed here. The burial vaults and tomb⁴ and the entrance arch are Grade II listed⁵, as is the K6 telephone kiosk outside the gardens⁶. 21 (old numbering) was the residence of Herbert Carden¹⁰. 43, St George's House [right] is an Italianate villa that was built for (and probably by) William Beedham. It was first known as Norman Villa, renamed Clifton Lodge in 1881. It was Clarke's College from the 1940s to 1967. It was then acquitted by Brighton Borough Council and became Brighton Tutorial and Secretarial Centre. It is currently Brighton and Hove Pupil Referral Unit. Image: Norman Villa in an 1850 lithograph published by W Grant [Source: RS Society of Brighton Print Collectors] —Here is Clifton Terrace. —Here is Vine Place. —Here is Powis Grove. —Here is Clifton Hill. †57 was the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, designed by local architect Thomas Lainson in Queen Anne style, opened by the Princess of Wales on 21 July 1881 (see also 1 Eastern Terrace). The site, formerly occupied by St Nicholas' Church School, was bought for £5,000 in 1871. The hospital cost £10,500. It was closed in June 2007 when the hospital moved to Eastern Road and the site was used to build flats behind the retained façade. Image: Ground floor plan, The Builder, 23 July 1881 61-67 Homelees House, a block of sheltered and retirement flats built in 1986, is on the site of the Dials Congregational Church (see Clifton Road) and other buildings, including the Lees Nursing Home, from which it probably takes its name and where film pioneer Charles Urban (1867-1942) died (see also 82 East Street). Unfortunately, the name on the building could easily be misread at a glance as 'Homeless'. —Here is Clifton Road. 69-75 has an original shopfront on a corner site. 77 has an original shopfront on a corner site. 81 has an original shopfront, including an unusual curved glazed corner section. 53-54 (old numbering) was Montpelier Mews. 107 and 109 (formerly 16d, 16e),probably built c1904-05, have original shop fronts. Pillar box outside 109c bears the VR royal cipher. —Here is Seven Dials. EAST SIDE (south to north) Church of St Nicholas of Myra see Church Street. —Here is Church Street. —Here is Buckingham Road. †Brighton Workhouse, with a capacity of 600 places, was on a site where Buckingham Road now meets Dyke Road (then Church Hill) from 1822 until the opening of the new workhouse in Elm Grove in 1865. The land, then known as Brighton Hall Estate, was sold at auction in four sales 1867-68. —Here is Leopold Road. —Here is Albert Road. 56 (formerly 59) was the first Brighton residence of photographer Esmé Collings before moving to 13 Alexandra Villas. —Here is West Hill Road. —Here is Compton Avenue. 82, Compton Arms dates from c1854. It was remodelled by Arthur Packham for Tamplins in 1934. Early in the 21st century it suffered an identity crisis and was bizarrely renamed The Rat and Trumpet, then Fogg's (c2012) and currently The French Horn from 2014. —Here is Bath Street. Here is Seven Dials. Villas in 1881: High Cross, Hosa Place and Villa, Irish Barn, The Lawn, The Retreat, St Margaret's House. NORTHWARDS, WEST SIDE (Hove) Here is Seven Dials. Numbering began here. Here is Melville Road. 141-161 (odd) were formerly numbered 1-11 [right showing a queue outside bakers Davies & Cowley, apparently during the period of bread rationing 1946-1948]. Here is Addison Road. Here is Highdown Road. Here is Old Shoreham Road. Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School, now BHASVIC, moved here from Buckingham Place, adopting this new name to reflect its location on the boundary between the two boroughs. The Goldsmid estate land cost £4,000 and the school building, designed by Samuel Bridgman Russell, cost £25,000²³. The foundation stone was laid on 13 June 1912 and the school opened on 17 September 1913²⁴. During the First World War it was temporarily commandeered as the 2nd Eastern General Hospital¹². The library extension was designed by John Leopold Denman and added in 1935. When schools were re-organised by East Sussex County Council in 1975 it became the Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC). It is on the B&H local list. Dyke Road Park was laid out in 1923 at the north-west end of the Prestonville development on land acquired by Brighton Borough Council from Osmond D'Avigdor Goldsmid and others in 1914²⁵ and used then as allotments. It opened in 1924 and generally retains its layout from that date, including the café, which was formerly thatched. The trees on the west side of Dyke Road (the Hove side) adjacent to the park were newly planted c1895¹¹ following road widening in 1893. On the B&H local list. Here is Upper Drive. †Dyke Road Enclosure/Field, where The Martlets is now, is where Brighton and Hove Albion played their first match in 1901. Source: Brighton Gazette 29 Aug 1901:6a 247, 249 were built by F Parsons in 1906²⁶. 263 is dated 1909. Here is Hove Park Roade. Here is The Droveway. 291, 293 are a pair of detached houses designed by Harold Turner, in Sussex farmhouse vernacular with Arts & Crafts influence. Here is Onslow Road. 317, 319 were designed by Miles Broe Architecture and built in 2017, replacing a single modest bungalow . Here is Woodruff Avenue. NORTHWARDS, EAST SIDE (Brighton) Here is Seven Dials. 128 and 130 (old numbering) were built c1860. Grade II listed¹³. 128 (formerly 38) was the residence of Magnus Volk from 1914 until his death. Brighton Corporation plaque. ph 132, Good Companions was built 1939 for Tamplins to a design by Arthur Packham and said to have opened on the day war broke out, 3 September 1939. On the B&H local list. Here is Russell Crescent. Here is Belmont. 134, Cadogan Court stands on the site of Hove Villa. Westcombe stands on the site of Hove Place House. Here is Old Shoreham Road. 148 was the last house on the east side in 1848 before Port Hall. 150 was called Natal in 1937¹⁴. 164, Bewcastle (formerly 113). Flats built c1960 replaced a house with that name built c1900 that was the residence of Sir Joseph Ewart. 166 was the residence of Alderman Dorothy Stringer. Here is Port Hall Road. 170, Port Hall (formerly 116) was built c.1800 for Sir Page Dick with a distinctive crenellated roof line and a small statue of a knight above the entrance. A later occupant was Sir Charles Hockaday Dick, curator of Brighton Museum¹⁵. It is said to be haunted by a crusader and has given its name to streets and the area around its once isolated position. The house and its walls are Grade II listed¹⁶. 1881. 170a (at the rear of Port Hall) was the residence of the actor Lockwood West (1905-1989). Fairways (formerly 133) comprises three four-storey blocks of 72 flats. It stands on the site of Bleak House, built in 1874 as the residence of ornithologist Edward Thomas Booth, demolished c1939. 194, Booth Museum of Natural History (formerly 132) was founded by Edward Thomas Booth in 1874 as the Museum of British Birds in the grounds of his residence (see 177) and given to the town by his widow in 1890. It was given its current name in 1973. Grade II listed¹⁷. 208-210 were renumbered 26 January 1933¹⁸. ph 218, The Dyke Tavern (formerly 148). Queen Anne/mock Tudor style pub built 1895, replacing a previous Windmill Inn, owned by William Trusler, who had a mill as part of the building. Originally called the Dyke Road Hotel¹⁹, it was remodelled by Arthur Packham in 1932 for Tamplins. It had some original frosted glass, including one pane saying 'Coffee Room', ironically replaced with plain glass when it was designated a coffee room in 2014. Now called 'The Dyke'. Grade II listed⁷. Here is Highcroft Villas, formerly Dyke Road Drive until 1933. Hill Crest was the residence of Sir Theodore Vivian Samuel Angier. †220, Highcroft was a large villa, built 1876 for a Quaker couple, Robert Horne Penney JP and Lucy Rickman Penney²⁰. Demolished c1991 and replaced after 1993 by Highcroft Mews. Here is Wincombe Road. 272, Church of the Good Shepherd was designed by Edward Prioleau Warren (1856-1937) and built in 1920-1922 with additions in 1927. Fittings by F E Howard. The foundation stone was laid by Mrs Alice Mary Moor, widow of Rev Gerald Henry Moor, Vicar of Preston 1905-1916. She and the incumbent priest in 1936 donated the tin hut that had been on the Dyke Road site to become the Church of the Good Shepherd in Stanley Avenue, Mile Oak. The church hall was opened on 15 July 1936 by Rt Hon Major George Tryon, then Postmaster-General and Conservative MP for Brighton between 1910 and 1940—who also inaugurated the BBC Television Service that November. (As PMG, Tryon succeeded Sir Kingsley Wood, who is commemorated in Brighton in Kingswood Street.) The church and its boundary walls are Grade II listed²¹. Here is The Drove. Here is Matlock Road. Covered reservoir between 324 and 326: the land was leased to Brighton, Hove and Preston Constant Water Works Company on 29 Sep 1865⁹. 326, 328 were built in the 1990s on the site of a former corporation depot. Rustic tram shelter , designed by William Noyce, was outside 344 until the end of 1977, when it was moved to outside 326. It was refurbished in 2023. The Dyke Road tram line (Route N) was withdrawn on 16 April 1939²². Here is Tivoli Crescent North. See also Old Dyke Road.	Census1841; PO1846— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/309 includes schedules of old and new addresses, and of Dyke Road properties lying in the Borough of Hove (to be resolved by the Council on 12 Mar 1953) ²ESRO DB/D/27/264 ³ESRO DB/D/46/874 ⁴HE 1380456 ⁵HE 1380455 ⁶HE 1380457 ⁷HE 1449852 ⁸HE 1380450 ⁹ESRO SFD/2/3/12 ¹⁰Ke1905 ¹¹James Gray ¹²Ke1915: 109 ¹³HE 1380451 ¹⁴ESRO amsgg/AMD6621/5/28 ¹⁵James Gray ¹⁶HE 1380458 ¹⁷HE 1380452 ¹⁸ESRO DB/D/27/166 ¹⁹James Gray ¹⁰Richard S Harrison: Brighton Quakers 1655-2005 ²¹HE 1380460, 1380461 ²²James Gray ²³ESRO R/C/47/1, ESRO R/C/63/30 ²⁴ESRO ESC/214/24/2-60 ²⁵ESRO ACC 7600/22 ²⁶ESRO DO/C/8/135
Dyke Road Avenue BN1 5LA, 5LB, 5LE, 5LF; BN3 6DA, 6DN, 6DP, 6DQ, 6QD, 6RW Tongdean conservation area (26-48 even, 35, 39-57 odd). Woodland Drive conservation area (Three Cornered Copse and adjacent open area).	The continuation of Dyke Road also marks the boundary between Brighton and Hove and is the section of the road that ran through the Withdean estate. A boundary stone stood on the west side of the road opposite Withdean Avenue. Until c1930s it was interchangeably called Dyke Road. Mostly large properties built over a period of a century or more. Designed in variety of styles from Tudor to contemporary, several are notable early 20th century houses in the Arts and Crafts style. Plans were prepared by Brighton Engineer's Department in 1937 under the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935³. Houses on the west side were numbered in the late 1940s, those on the east side, which generally are of earlier date, were not. Numbering began on the east side at the corner of Tivoli Crescent North 4 January 1949¹. WEST SIDE (Hove) Uplands see Barrowfield Drive. —Here is Barrowfield Drive. 5, The Spinney was designed by BakerBrown Studio Sustainable Design and built in the early 2000s. 27 was designed by Alan Phillips Architects and built by S Cooper in 2013 as a back development behind 25. —Here is Chalfont Drive. †31, Furze Court is said to have once had the old entrance gates of the Chain Pier, which were removed in 1871². It was the residence of Lt-General Francis S Iredell from 1897 to 1918. It was then briefly the residence of Mme Varipati. By 1930 it was a boys' school and by 1936 a girls' school. It was a Dr Barnardo's home by 1949 and was demolished in 1963. —Here is Chalfont Drive. 39, Oaklands was a residential club for the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) after World War II. It later became a nursing home. —Here is Tongdean Place. 43, Wickham House (formerly Wychcote) was designed by Thomas Garrett and built by J W Simmonds for John Gilkes in 1904⁴. The date is embossed on the stucco of the central gable with the motto 'East west home's best'. 45, Shannon House was designed by Denman & Hall and built by A Dean for John Gilkes in 1905⁵. —Here is Tongdean Road. 47 was the post-war residence of Air Vice-Marshall Sir Anthony Paxton. †Tongdean Farm was probably here by no later than the beginning of the 19th century. Land along the Dyke Road Avenue edge was sold for housing during the 1920s. The farm closed by 1936 and the buildings were demolished to make way for housing. 55 is on the site of Tongdean farmhouse and yard. —Here is The Spinney. —Here is Hill Brow. —Here is Dyke Close. 71 (Valetta) was the residence for many years of Brighton-born solicitor Howard S Johnson MP and his second wife, Betty Frankiss. —Here is Yorklands. —Here is Woodland Drive. EAST SIDE (Brighton) —Here is Hazeldene Meads. —Here is The Beeches. 32, Cransley Lodge was built, with its stables, in 1902 for W Chater Lea by E Wallis Long. A provisional plan was drawn up in 1900. 34, Dyke Lodge was built in 1900 for W B Henley by W E A Gillam and extended in 1907 for A J Clayton by John H Hackman. —Here is Dyke Road Place. 36, Berea House was built for H Sweet in 1898. Now converted to flats and extended. 42, Earlsmead was built in 1912 for W Porter by E Wallis Long, previously called Hylands. The gardener's cottage and Peach House were built at the rear in 1927 by Hunter & Bedford for W Evans. 44, Merok was built on part of the site of Tudor House by Archibald McLean for T W Price in 1924. Three houses (49-53 Wayland Avenue) were built in the eastern part of the garden. 48, Baronsmead 50. 71 Wayland Avenue and 1-2 Wayland Heights were built on part of the rear garden. —Here is Tongdean Lane. —Here is Valley Drive. —Here is The Heights.	Pi1896 ¹ESRO DB/D/27/286 ²James Gray ³ESRO DB/D/84/2/4434 (17 June 1937), ESRO DB/D/84/2/4696 (15 Nov 1937) ⁴ESRO DO/C/8/107 (9 Feb 1904) ⁴ESRO DO/C/8/123 (10 Jan 1905)
Dyke Road Drive BN1 6AJ	From Preston Road and originally continuing northwards from the junction with Port Hall Road to join Dyke Road. That section was renamed Highcroft Villas to incorporate Highcroft Terrace 27 July 1933 and 9 November 1933¹. Numbering is sequential. St Hilda. 1881. 72, Preston Park Wesleyan Methodist Church was designed by Liverpool architect C O Ellison, built in 1883, closed in 1943 and demolished in 1974. The London Gate office building now stands on the site. Railway bridge is where Eva Knight, a servant, threw her seven-year-old illegitimate daughter onto the tracks below, for which she was charged on 11 October 1895. The girl suffered concussion.² At the committal on 25 October 'it was expected that the child ... would be called, but counsel for the prosecution said she was either very unintelligent for her years, or had lost her memory through the injuries she had suffered'.³ Knight was found guilty at Lewes Assizes and sentenced on 29 November 1895 to five years' penal servitude, the jury recommending her to mercy.⁴	Pa1882— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/24 ²Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 12 October 1895:8 ³The Cornishman, 31 October 1895: 7 ⁴Portsmouth Evening News, 30 November 1895:3
Dyke Road Mews BN1 3JD West Hill conservation area.	At 74-76 Dyke Road, entered from Bath Street.
Dyke Road Place BN1 5LD	A track from Dyke Road Avenue at the point where it was still open on the east side opposite Tongdean Farm was here in the 19th century, continuing along the line that became Wayland Avenue. It was a road early in the 1900s, with only one house on the north side until the late 1950s, when the south side began to be populated. Plans were prepared by Brighton Engineer's Department in 1937 under the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935¹.	Ke1930 ¹ESRO DB/D/84/2/4434 (17 June 1937), ESRO DB/D/84/2/4696 (15 Nov 1937)

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