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Laburnum Avenue, Hove BN3 7JW	One of a group of adjacent roads with apparently random tree names (Acacia, Elm, Maple, Rowan). Goldstone Primary School and Nursery opened in 1974 when the Junior School moved from Ellen Street¹.	¹ESRO ESC102
Ladies Mile Estate	Built around the former drove road between Patcham and Stanmer, comprising Ladies Mile Road, Barrhill Avenue, Braeside Avenue, Craignair Avenue, Heston Avenue, Highview Avenue, Mackie Avenue, Sanyhils Avenue, Solway Avenue and Vale Avenue, Developed by George Ferguson (see White House, Ladies Mile Road) and named 27 April 1933¹, mostly after places near Ferguson's birthplace in south-west Scotland. Completed by 1936.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/30
Ladies' Mile Close, Patcham BN1 8TS	Numbered 6 June 1957¹.	Ke1958— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/350
Ladies' Mile Road, Patcham BN1 8QE, 8QF, 8QU, 8TA, 8TD	A drove road, formerly called The Drove when it was a farm lane from Patcham village to Old Boat Corner until the early 20th century. Named July 1928¹ and 27 April 1933^2, ³. Renumbered January 1941⁴. A fourth-century Romano-British inhumation was found near Sunnydale Avenue on 25 September 1928, while digging a trench for an electric light cable⁶. 1-6 Mile End Cottages, set at right-angles to the Ladies' Mile Road, date from the late 19th century. They are on the B&H local list. 36-44, Drove Cottages were built for the poor of the parish in 1815.⁵ Ladies Mile Hotel opened in 1935. Margaret Hardy School was a girls' school, moved here from York Place, named after the first woman mayor of Brighton, Alderman Miss Margaret Hardy. †Patcham Fawcett School was a boys' school—moved here from York Place—for which planning permission was granted in October 1962. Permission to demolish the school buildings was given in December 1993 and to allow construction of housing on the site in March 1994 (see Windmill View). Patcham Junior School opened in 1935. Patcham Methodist Church opened in 1968, replacing Drove Barn, which had been converted into a church in 1935. Peter Gibbs was the architect. Place Farm House takes its name from the farm that covered this area from at least the 13th century. It is now a nursing home. White House was the residence of George Ferguson, developer of the Ladies Mile housing estate at Eastwick Bottom. It became a state nursery school (one of only three in Brighton) and then Dharma School, an independent Buddhist school, which closed in July 2020. 1 2 3 4 Images: 2,3 Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust	Ke1934— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/270 ²ESRO DB/D/27/306 ³ESRO DB/D/27/326 ⁴ESRO DB/D/27/253 ⁵Image from 1905 ⁶ESRO MES295
Ladysmith Road BN2 4EG, 4EH, 4EJ	Commemorates the siege in 1899-1900 during the Second Boer War (cf, Kimberley Road, Mafeking Road). Built 1903¹. Renumbered by Tillstone 1915². Wall letterbox in its own brick enclosure outside 33 bears the VR insignia of the Victorian era. 89-91 is the approximate location of the Bear Mill (see Bear Road).	To1904— ¹ESRO DB/D/7 ²DB/D/46/836
Laine Close, Withdean BN1 6RU, 6TD	Private road. Takes its name from Laine House and Lodge, which stood on the site (see Preston Road).
† Lambert's Cottages	At 48 Waterloo Street. No thoroughfare, small tenements.	Ta1854–Pa1871
Lambourne Close, Hollingbury BN1 7FJ	Partly rear of Wolverstone Drive. Numbered 4 February 1965¹.	Ke1968— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/390
Lambourne Road, Hollingbury BN1 7FD	Two-storey semi-detached houses, some above integral garages.Numbered 5 October 1961 and supplementary numbering 4 February 1965¹.	Ke1964— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/390
Lancaster House Road, Falmer BN1 9QP	University of Sussex campus.
Lancaster Road, Prestonville BN1 5DG	Goldsmid land. Built in the 1890s. 27 built c1894 by Beves and Tooth¹. St Luke's Vicarage. 1881.	Pa1886— ¹ESRO ACC8745/63
∫ Lancaster Villas, Prestonville	Facing Prestonville Terrace. Formerly known as New England Villas, incorporated into Old Shoreham Road 30 August 1938¹ and renumbered as 29-55.	Pa1880–Ke1938 ¹ESRO DB/D/27/47
† Landers Buildings	Off Market Street.	Census1861
Landseer Road, Hove BN3 7AF	Sir Edwin Landseer RA (1792-1873) was a pre-eminent English painter, who lived in Queensbury Mews. The road was built c.1905. One of five Victorian painters commemorated in adjacent streets (the others being Frith, Leighton, Poynter and Prinsep).	Pi1912—
Lanes, The	Preserved part of old Brighton between Black Lion Street, East Street, Middle Street and North Street, consisting of picturesque narrow streets. (Not to be confused with 'laines', the name for areas of smallholdings surrounding the original town now preserved in the North Laine.)
Langdale Gardens, Hove BN3 4HG, 4HH, 4HJ, 4HL	Portland Estate in Aldrington. No properties listed in Pi1901.	Pi1901—
Langdale Road, Hove BN3 4HN, 4HP, 4HQ, 4HR	Portland Estate in Aldrington.	Pi1901—
Langley Crescent, Woodingdean BN2 6NH, 6NL, 6NQ		Ke1966—
Langridge Drive, Portslade BN41 2JB	Named after Sussex cricketer John Langridge (1910-1999).
† Lansdowne Mansions, Hove.		Pa1875–Pi1914
Lansdowne Mews, Hove BN3 1FW Brunswick Town conservation area.	At 4 Farm Road.	Pi1928—
Lansdowne Place, Hove BN3 1FG, 1FH, 1FJ, 1FL, 1FN, 1FP Brunswick Town conservation area.	All buildings south of the junction with Western Road were designed by C A Busby. Known as Wick Lane until 1834, when it was renamed in honour of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), who had been Chancellor of the Exchequer at the age of 25. Three houses collapsed on 25 September 1845. In the late 19th century it was mainly apartment and boarding houses. 1-7 were designed by C A Busby and built 1830-32. All are now hotels and Grade II listed¹. 2-48 (even), including 44-47 Western Road, Hove, Hove, built c1830-1840, with later alterations, including 20th century shop fronts. ² 2 was the residence of the artist Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding. Dudley Mansions acquired this name in 2019, when refurbishment of the former Lansdowne Place Hotel as apartments was completed, after closing in 2014. Originally built as Lansdowne Mansions in 1854, it became Dudley Mansions Boarding House in 1878 and then the Dudley Private Hotel from 1905. The arched entrance was added in 1911 by F C Axtell. It is on the B&H local list. 4 was the residence and workplace of architect C A Busby. City of Brighton & Hove plaque. 13-15 is a pair of semi-detached villas, built 1830-32.Grade II listed³ 16 was the lodging-house residence of John Leech (1817-1864), the illustrator, Punch cartoonist and friend of Charles Dickens, who visited. Plaque sponsored by a television company. 17-19, 21,21a-23 are pairs of semi-detached villas, built 1830-32.Grade II listed⁷ 25-31 were built c1830-1840. Grade II listed³ 33-55 were built c1830-1840. Grade II listed⁴. No 55 was formerly part of 48-59 Western Road, Hove. 52-118 were built c1850-1860 and are Grade II listed⁵. 64 was a residence of journalist and politician T P O'Connor around 1900. 59-127 were built c1850-1860 but probably later than the terrace opposite and are Grade II listed⁶. 108-112 was Mowden Boys' Preparatory School, which moved here from Hatfield Peverel, Essex in 1901, to c1915, by when it had moved to The Droveway. 119 was the residence of Captain Theodore Wright VC.	PO1845— ¹HE 1280408 ²HE 1187570 ³HE 1280390 ⁴HE 1187572 ⁵HE 1280338 ⁶HE 1187573 ⁷HE 1280384, 1187571
Lansdowne Road, Hove BN3 1AU, 1DL, 1DN, 1DP, 1FE, 1FF, 1FY, 1FZ, 1GB Brunswick Town conservation area (2-8 even).	Formerly called Wick Road until the 1850s. 'No houses at present' in Fo1859. NORTH SIDE (east to west) —Continuing westwards from Montpelier Place. 1a-1g, Elemenohpea partially replaced the Montpelier Place Baptist Church in 2018-2019. —Here is York Avenue. 1, Mercia House [below] was built in 'patent waterproof' bricks by J Barnes and designed by H J Lanchester in 1881, who added the side extension in 1890. A garage designed by Alfred Carden was added in 1915 but is no longer present. St Anne's Home for Invalid and Crippled Children relocated here around the time of World War Two. The house is on the B&H local list. 3, originally Wick Lodge and later St Michael's Hall (when it was a girls' [boys'?] school), and its Lodge (also known as St Michael's Lodge) date from the early 19th century. Both Grade II listed. The main villa was enlarged c1900 and later became Claremont School (boys' prep). Requisitioned for military use during the Second World War, when it was called Claremont House, in 1945 it became a children's home, St Anne's Convent, run by the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, moving here from 49 Buckingham Place. From 1949 an adjacent building, Woodside, was used as an under-fives kindergarten (see also 3a below). When child-care policies changed the nuns moved St Anne's Convent to Woodside in 1994. The main building was occupied by squatters, who were evicted in 1995. After renovation, it became the Bodhisattva Buddhist Centre in 1997¹. An early cast iron lamppost in the grounds was added to the B&H local list in 2022. 3, Marina House was used with Woodside (see above) as a day care centre for homeless women. It is now used by the Frances Tayor Foundation for the care of people with learning difficulties. —Here is Furze Hill. —Here is Somerhill Road. 15, Kitilear Court. Boring. 21, The Red House was built for Lord Carnarvon in 1913. —Here is Holland Road. Hove Crown Court was designed by Fitzroy Robinson in a style described as banker's brutalism and opened in 1969. It is on the B&H local list. —Here is Palmeira Avenue. 25, Lansdowne Court. —Here is Salisbury Road. SOUTH SIDE (east to west) —Continuing westwards from Montpelier Place. —Here is Boundary Passage (pedestrian access). —Here is York Road. —Here is Brunswick Road. —Here is Cambridge Road. Pillar box near the north-east corner of Brunswick Place bears the VR royal cipher. —Here is Brunswick Place. —Here is Farm Road. 6, Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, founded in November 1935, is where the first Jewish public same-sex marriage ceremony was held on 24 March 2006 following passing of the Civil Partnership Act; the rabbi, Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah, was one of the partners. —Here is Lansdowne Place. —Here is Lansdowne Street. —Here is Holland Road. —Here is Rochester Gardens. —Here is Palmeira Avenue. Sandringham Lodge. —Here is Salisbury Road. Lansdowne Lodge. 1881. See also 29-30 Brunswick Road (Lansworth House). Image: Mercia House [The Builder, 3 September 1881]	Fo1859 ¹My Brighton and Hove; Schnews.org.uk
Lansdowne Square BN3 1HE Brunswick Town conservation area.	Designed by C A Busby and built 1830-1833. 1,2,3 are Grade II listed¹. 4,5,6 are Grade II listed². 7,8,9 are Grade II listed³.	PO1845— ¹HE 1206283 ²HE 1187574 ³HE 1293031
Lansdowne Street, Hove BN3 1FQ, 1FR, 1FS, 1FT Brunswick Town conservation area.		Ta1854—
† Lansdowne Terrace East, Hove	From 52 Lansdowne Place to Western Road.	Ta1854–Pi1888
† Lansdowne Terrace West, Hove	From 59 Lansdowne Place to continuation of New Western Road, Hove.	Ta1854–Pi1888
Larch Close, Woodingdean BN2 6TT	Cul-de-sac of nine three-storey terraced houses.
Lark Hill, Hangleton BN3 8PB, 8PF, 8PH		Ke1947—
Lark View, Portslade BN41 2AP	Cul-de-sac of mainly detached two-storey houses off Swallows Rise built 2021.	Ke1947—
Larkfield Close, Withdean	In the Withdean Estate East. Named 5 April 1938¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/41
Larkfield Way, Withdean BN1 8EF, 8EG	In the Withdean Estate East. Named 5 April 1938¹. Renumbered 1 May 1947².	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/270A ²ESRO DB/D/27/274
Laughton Road, Woodingdean BN2 6QF	Semi-detached dormer bungalows and a terrace of four two=storey houses. Numbered 2 June 1960¹.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/365
† Laurel Gardens	Off Lavender Street.	⁴Wetton & Jarvis map 1822
† Laurel Place	Number of properties in 1822: 24.	Ba1822
† Laurel Road	At 52 Lavender Street. Small houses.	Ta1854
† Laurel Row	Connecting Upper Bedford Street and Lavender Street. Poor quality housing built c.1810 that deteriorated quite quickly. This photograph in the James Gray Collection¹ shows it was only 6ft 2 ins (1.9m) wide. The western end was boarded up by 1937 and the alley was mostly cleared by the 1940s, the remaining non-residential properties finally demolished early 1950s, apart from a builder's yard. Image: RS James Gray Collection	Fo1856–Ke1970 ¹James Gray Collection from Lavender Street James Gray Collection from Upper Bedford Street James Gray Collection during clearance James Gray Collection after clearance
Laurels, Patcham		[1881]
Lauriston Road, Preston BN1 6AY, 6SN Preston Park conservation area (north side; south side 3-29 odd).	'Main road to Home Road' with no properties in Pi1897. It is named after Lauriston Castle in Montrose, Scotland; after his death in 1853 Thomas Stanford's widow Eleanor married Captain G V Macdonald, whose family seat was at the castle. Numbered 17 March 1904¹. 4-32 (even) on the north side were designed for the Stanford estate by Charles Stanley Peach in August 1898. They are on the B&H local list.	Pi1897— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/123
∫ Lavender Hill	Former name of Lavender Street.
Lavender Street BN1 1LE, 1LG, 1LH	Originally known c1822 as Lavender Hill¹. A double row of lavender hedges flanked open gardens in the 1820s². Number of properties in 1822: 21. Three houses here were put up for auction in 1833 in connection with bankruptcy proceedings against Villeroy Russell (see Portland Place and Essex Street). At various time up to 13 propoerties were beerhouses or pubs, often for a short duration, the most sustained of which are listed. In the 1890s noted for retail and trades. Now high- and low-rise housing. †7 was the Dewdrop Inn from 1885 to 1921. †22 was the Farriers Arms from 1862 to 1911. †26 was the Wheelwrights Arms from 1869 (but possibly as early as 1854) until 1926. †31 was the Woodman's Hut from 1881 to 1898. —Paradise Street was here (at 33). †56 was the Anchor by the early 1830s, owned by SmithersIt was refurbished by Clayton & Black in 1926 and 1928, acquired by Tamplin in 1929 and again refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1929. It closed in 1945. Malthouse Court, three-storey social housing built around an open square, commemorates the Rock Brewery in St James's Street and its associated malthouse in Warwick Street. Wiltshire House is a 17-storey block of 86 Brighton Council flats, built by Rice in 1968-69 as stage 1 of the Somerset Street Comprehensive Devepment Area.	Ba1822— ¹Wetton & Jarvis map ²James Gray
∫ Lavington Road, Hove	Road laid out by George Burstow for John Ede Butt & Sons, planning application dated 18 November 1902¹. The location is unclear but is probably an early name during planning for one of the roads south of Old Shoreham Road between Holland Road and Montefiore Road. East Lavington, West Lavington and Bar Lavington are villages in West Sussex.	ESRO DO/C/6/2362
Lawrence Road, Hove BN3 5QA, 5QB, 5QD, 5QE	One of several roads south of Portland Road named after painters, in this instance the English portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). A parcel of land on the south side (146ft x 123ft) was conveyed by the Portland estate to Thomas Mills of Hove, builder, for £800 on 4 October 1880 to build six semi-detached houses at £500 each¹, adjacent to another plot acquired by Mills. 2-38 (even) were built by Thomas Mills².	Pi1905— ¹University of Nottingham ²ESRO DO/C/6/2488 (30 November 1903); /2616 (13 December 1904); /2746 (31 October 1905)
† Lawrence Street, Portslade		[1881]
∫ Layne, The, Coldean	Former name of Ashburnham Close.
† Leach's (Leeches) Court	At 45 Middle Street. Small houses. Mr Leach has not been traced, so maybe the alternative spelling is relevant?	[1826] Census1841; Ta1854
Leahurst Court and Leahurst Court Road BN1 6UL, 6UN, 6UZ	On the site of a Victorian house called Lea Hurst. Numbered 12 September 1963¹.	Ke1964— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/398
Leicester Street BN2 0AZ	Previously called Barrowcliff Street and opening onto Edward Street (at 79). Formerly small houses, replaced by shop and flats, with access to the rear of Egremont Place and Tillstone Street; no thoroughfare. It was compulsorily purchased by Brighton Corporation in 1957 and the southern section demolished c1960. Pilgrims Cottages, built 1854 by the Soames family for indigent over-60s. Nine cottages each contained two flats, rent for each being only 3s (15p) a week in the 1950s¹. Image: Leicester Street after demolition when it was still accessed from Edward Street.	Ba1822— ¹James Gray, image
Leicester Villas, Hove BN3 5SP, 5SQ		Pi1915—
Leighton Road, Hove BN3 7AD, 7AE	No properties listed in To1898. Lord Leighton PRA (1830-1896) was an English painter and President of the Royal Academy. The road was built c.1905. One of five Victorian painters commemorated in adjacent streets (the others being Frith, Landseer, Poynter and Prinsep).	To1898—
Lenham Avenue, Saltdean BN2 8AE, 8AG	Numbered 1 September 1948 and 25 January 1960¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/285
Lenham Road East, Saltdean BN2 8AF	Numbered 1 September 1948 and 25 January 1960¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/285
Lenham Road West, Saltdean BN3 7GJ	Numbered 1 September 1948¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/4
∫ Lennox Place	Former name of 1-3 Richmond Terrace. Lennox is the family name of the Dukes of Richmond. 1 was the residence of the brewer H P Tamplin¹.	PO1845–Pa1895 ¹Ta1854:92
Lennox Road, Aldrington BN3 5HY	One of five neighbouring roads laid out by 30 July 1900 when the land was acquired by George Payne and Edgar Payne of Bayswater, London for £11,345. Terraced houses (37). The dukedom of Lennox was a title held by the Duke of Richmond.	Pi1905— ¹ESRO AMS5976/1
† Lennox Road, Brighton	From 17 Round Hill Crescent to 29 Wakefield Road. Precipitously steep street laid out for building in 1862, still 'under construction' in 1869 and finally replaced by steps, known as the Cat's Creep.	Fo1859–Pi1888
Lennox Street BN2 0GS, 0HD	From 47 Carlton Hill to 85 Sussex Street. Taylor's Mill (also known as East Mill) was moved to the top of the street from Sudeley Place in the mid 1840s but collapsed in 1862 when it was due to be moved on to Woodingdean. Only the southern half remains since social housing was built. †28, The London Arms opened c1885 and closed in 1964.	Fo1848—
∫ Lennox Terrace	Former name of Windmill Street—see Lennox Street for the mill.	Ta1854–Fo1862
Leopold Road BN1 3RD West Hill conservation area.	Commemorates Leopold I (1790-1865), first King of the Belgians, uncle of Queen Victoria, after whom Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), Victoria's eighth child was named. One pair of four-storey semi-detached houses on the south side, two on the north side, with an infill property between one of the latter and the corner house in Buckingham Road. Under construction 1870. 5 was the birthplace and childhood residence of John Theodore Combridge. Pillar box near the junction with Dyke Road bears the VR royal cipher.	Pa1871—
Level, The BN1 4ZN	Triangular flat area in the angle between Lewes Road and London Road originally laid out in 1822. Noted as an early cricket pitch. Used for fairs, etc, from 1807 onwards after the decision to build on the ground that became Regency Square on Belle Vue Field. On the B&H local list. MacLaren Pavilions were designed by the then Superintendent of Parks, Captain Bertie Hubbard MacLaren as part of his plan for the whole park in 1929 [below]. Captain MacLaren's design for The Level 1929 [Source: ESRO/BHCC]
† Lewers Terrace, Hove	The 14 premises (shops with three storeys of accommodation above) in Church Road between Hove library and Hove Street were included in Church Road by 1905, numbered 188-216. Albert Edward Lewer and Henry Lewer were builders.	Pi1897–To1903
† Lewes Buildings	Could be Lewis's Buildings?	Fo1848–Pa1881
Lewes Crescent BN2 1FH, 1GB Kemp Town conservation area.	Two arcs each of 14 houses, all being Grade I listed¹. Named after the nearby county town of East Sussex. The lampposts in front of no 18 and near the corner with Chichester Terrace are Grade II listed¹. The eastern pillars bear plaque to homeopathic pioneer G Ruthven Mitchell and his wife Anne, who lived in the crescent 1960-1983. 1-14 are Grade I listed^2>. 1 Fife House and adjoining 14 Chichester Terrace was a residence of 6th Duke of Devonshire 1828-1858 and later a residence of Edward VII's daughter Princess Louise 1896-1924 and her husband the 1st Duke of Fife; Edward VII convalesced here in 1908. Badly worn Regency Society plaque. 4 was a convalescent home for officers from the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) from 28 February 1917 with accommodation for up to 26 men. 5 was the residence of Lewis Cubitt c1864 to 1883 and his brother-in-law Edgar Alfred Bowring c1884-1911. 6 was the residence of Charles John Kemeys Tynte. 9 was the residence of the bibliophile and artist Cornelius Paine. 10 was the residence of Thomas Cubitt in 1850. 13 was the residence of builder Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855) from 1846 until his death. Regency Society plaque. It was a convalescent home for officers from the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) from early 1917 with accommodation for up to 20 men. 15-28 are Grade I listed³. 15-16 was converted for use as a military hospital during World War I. 16 is where novelist Henry James spent the Christmases in 1905 and 1906. 17 was the residence of Lord Frederick Elwyn-Jones and his wife, the artist and author Pearl Binder. Brighton Corporation plaque. 17a was the residence of J Baxter Somerville c1946-c1958. 18 Flat 2 was the residence of producer Herbert Wilcox and actress Anna Neagle 1953 to 1969. Brighton Corporation plaque. 19a was the basement-flat residence of actor, producer and investor Jack Buchanan in 1960. It was the residence of novelist Ann Quinn in 1972-73. 20 (basement flat) was the residence of wiccan Doreen Valiente from 1956 to 1972. 22 was the residence of Mrs Thomas Read Kemp in 1848. It was requisitioned as WRNS quarters during the Second World War. 22 was the residence of William Rose c1960. 25 was the original home of Roedean School, founded as Wimbledon House School in October 1885. Plaque. 26 was the residence of William Coningham. HRH Princess Suvadhana of Siam lived here c.1948-1954. 31 was the residence of Rt Hon the Earl of Airlie in 1846. 32 was the residence of Laurence Peel in 1846. 41 was the residence of Thomas Cubitt in 1846.	PO1845— ¹HE 1381660, 1380661 ²HE 1380658 ³HE 1380659
Lewes Mews BN2 1GR
Lewes Road BN2 3GU, 3HP, 3HQ, 3HW, 3HZ, 3JS, 3JZ, 3LA, 3LD, 3LF, 3LG, 3QB Valley Gardens conservation area (The Level, Almshouses 1-12 consecutive).	A270. Turnpiked in 1770. North of Bear Road known as Lewes Road, East Preston. Section from Gladstone Terrace to St Martin's Place renumbered 7 July 1892¹, at corner of Wellington Road numbered 28 September 1933². Numbering is sequential from the south-west corner, returning down the south-east side. NORTH-WEST SIDE (south to north) —Here is Park Crescent Place. [ph] 1 opened as the Hanover Arms Inn by 1824. The name changed to the Race Hill Inn in 1852, owned by Tamplin. It closed c2008 and was converted into a health centre 16 was originally Tilley's horse bus stables. It became the Arcadia Theatre of Varieties in 1907 and the Arcadia Cinema in 1910, closing in May 1956. It is now the Brighton Trades & Labour Club. —Here is Trinity Street. Church of St Martin and St Wilfrid was designed by George Somers Clarke mainly in red brick and funded in 1874-1875 by the three sons of Rev Henry Wagner, the vicar of Brighton, in memory of their father. Consecrated 1 May 1875. The altar, with a reredos by H Ellis Wooldridge, dates from 1949. It is Grade II* listed⁴. Wagner Hall was built in 1905 as the parish hall for St Martin's. —Here is St Martin's Street (at 42). —Here is St Paul's Street (at 46). —Here is St Mary Magdalene Street (at 51). —Here is Caledonian Road (at 55). —Here is Edinburgh Road (at 62). —Here is Aberdeen Road (at 68). —Here is Inverness Road (at 74). 78-81, Lewes Road Congregational Church was designed by Bristol architect Alfred Harford and built in 1878-79. The street elevation was retained when the site was redeveloped for housing in 1997 as Stanley Court YMCA hostel of 31 self-contained flats¹⁰; 81 is dated 1892 on the pediment. —Here is Upper Lewes Road (at 92). Here the road divides to form the Vogue Gyratory. †Lewes Road Station opened on 1 September 1873 on the Kemp Town branch line of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway, accessed by a covered stairway from Lewes Road, alongside the viaduct. It closed to passengers in 1933 and to freight on 26 June 1971 and was demolished. Image: Lewes Road Station after closure, looking east [adapted from RS James Gray Collection]. †Lewes Road Viaducts. The southern viaduct was a 14-arch brick structure on the Kemp Town railway branch line, built 1868/69. A public convenience and covered stairway to Lewes Road Station were adjacent. The arches between Lewes Road and Melbourne Street were demolished in 1976 and the remaining western section in 1983 to make way for the Sainsbury's store and Vogue Gyratory. The northern viaduct at East Moulescoomb was built 1844/45 to carry the line from Brighton to Lewes, Newhaven and the east. [ph] 94 was the Alexandra Hotel from 1864. It was in retail use early in the 21st century. ph †106, Allen Arms opened in 1845. It was owned by West Street Brewery from 1876 to 1929 and then by Tamplin. It was briefly known as The Hub (to c2010), then as the White Crow. It was demolished in 2015. Allen Arms Cottages were adjacent. †107-108 was the Gaiety Cinema from 1937 to 1980. The site is now occupied by the Vogue Studios apartments. —Here is Hollingdean Road. 109, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints opened in 1993, replacing the Mormon church in Park Close, Coldean. SOUTH-EAST SIDE (north to south) 107, Lewes Road Bus Garage was built as the tram depot (see Coombe Terrace below). —Bear Cottages and a smithy were here. 108, Ursa Court was built 2007, replacing Bear Cottages. 109, Bear Inn was here from c1796, owned by Smithers.It was rebuilt, designed by Samuel Denman, in 1898 and refurbished by Arthur Packham in 1937. It is on the B&H local list. —Here is Bear Road. —Here is Newmarket Road. Brighton Extramural Cemetery was established under the Public Health Act 1848 by the Brighton Extra Mural Company, of which Dr John Cordy Burrows and Rev John Nelson Goulty were the founders. It was laid out by Amon Henry Wilds on 13 acres of farm land known as Scabe's Castle. The construction contract attracted 25 bids and was awarded to Raffles Brown of Liverpool¹⁹. The contact for the two chapels went to John Fabian²⁰. It was consecrated in 1851, plus another five acres donated by the Marquess of Bristol, that was consecrated on 14 November 1857 by the Bishop of Chichester, Dr A T Gilbert, and is now a Garden of Remembrance and part of Woodvale Cemetery (see below). Burial in the churches and churchyards of Brighton was made illegal in 1854. The cemetery is on the B&H local list, the chapel is Grade II listed³, as are several mausoleums. That of Edmund Chaplin Baldwin (1860-c1929) was designed by John Leopold Denman but is undated¹⁴. The tomb of John Collingwood (1796-1861) was designed by W Burnett; Rev Frederick William Robertson (1816-1853), who preached at Holy Trinity Church in Ship Street, has a the memorial sculpted by William Wyon RA and paid for by members of the Brighton Mechanics Institute and other townsfolk; the Collingwood, Robertson and one other tomb are Grade II listed¹⁶. The Ray Mausoleum was erected in 1850 with shelves for 42 coffins, of which 14 are occupied, the earliest being Lucy Langford Ray (d 1856) and Robert Ray (d 1871); it is Grade II listed¹⁵. The drinking fountain in front of the Ray Mausoleum was installed in 1851 by the Brighton Extramural Company and is attributed to Amon Henry Wilds. See also Hartington Road. —Here is Gladstone Place. Woodvale Cemetery: the north lodge is Grade II listed⁷, as are the park and garden¹⁷. The memorial to John Frederick Ginnett (1819-1892), the horseman and circus proprietor, and his wife, represented by a horse on an elevated plinth in Portland stone, was erected in 1892 and is Grade II listed⁸. John Urpeth Rastrick, the civil engineer responsible for much of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway, is commemorated by a large granite table tomb made by W&J Freeman, although he never lived in the town. ph 123, Gladstone Arms opened in 1866, with additions by Frank Cawthorn in 1898. Woodvale Crematorium is Grade II listed⁹. —Here is Melbourne Street (at 123). 130-131 was built as a soldiers' home in 1879, designed by Holford & Clayton¹¹. It later became the Connaught Institute and a classroom/reading-room was added by Holford & Clayton in 1886¹². —Here is Melbourne Street (at 138). —Here is Hartington Road (at 142). —Here is St Leonard's Road (at 155). ph 158, Lewes Road Inn opened in 1864. Samuel Denman designed additions in 1898. It became the Franklin Arms in the early 21st century but reverted to its original, traditional name in 2020. —Here is Franklin Road. —Here is St Martin's Place (at 164). —Here is St Martin's Place (at 179). —Here is Elm Grove (at 197). Percy and Wagner Almshouses began with the construction of nos 4-9 in 1795—making it the earliest development in the road—for Dorothy and Philadelphia Percy, daughters of the Duke of Northumberland, to house six poor Church of England clergy widows. Catherine Mitchell added to the endowment. Rev Henry Wagner and his sister Mary added the remaining six houses, designed by Thomas Simpson and built by John Fabian at a tender ost of £672²¹, in 1859 in memory of the Marquess of Bristol. The almshouses, restored in 1975-1976, and the garden wall are Grade II listed⁶. WEST SIDE NORTHWARD (A270) Saunders Park opened in 1924 and is named after brothers Arthur and Benjamin Saunders. It is on the site of a nursery in the northern part and †Brighton Corporation Water Works pumping station and reservoir. —Here is Saunders Park View. —Here is The Furlong. †Preston Barracks were built on land bought by the government in 1796 to house cavalry. —Here is Saunders Park View. —This was the borough boundary until 1928. Elm House of the University of Brighton. Watts Building of the University of Brighton. Cockcroft Building of the University of Brighton was built in 1962-1963 with a floor area of 10,500m². A retrofit refurbishment designed by Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects was carried out and won the AJ Retrofit Award 2016. The Aldrich Library was designed by Long & Kentish and opened in 1996. Moulescoomb Place was built as a private house for Benjamin Tillstone in 1790 to incorporate part of a late medieval building. The family was one of the main landowners in the area until the early 20th century. The south wing was added in 1913. The building, now a social club and offices of the University of Brighton, is Grade II listed⁵. Moulescoomb Hall. —Here is Seafield Drive. —Here is Home Farm Road. Wild Park Local Nature Reserve. —Here is Stone Mere Way. EAST SIDE NORTHWARD (A270) Coombe Terrace is separately numbered southwards from Coombe Road. 43-45 was Brighton Corporation Tramways Depot, which opened in 1901. It is now part of the Brighton Hove and Lewes Bus Depot and is on the B&H local list. —Here is Coombe Road. †Preston Laundry. Pelham Terrace has been replaced with University of Brighton buildings. ph †5 was The Royal Hussars Inn, opened in 1878. It was latterly renamed The Lectern because of its proximity to the expanding University of Brighton, and demolished in 2019. ph †8 was The Ship Inn, opened in 1878. It was demolished in 2018. Mithras House was built in 1966 behind the earlier Allen West engineering factory but the buildins were offered for sale in 1968 and were taken by Brighton Polytechnic (later Univerity of Brighton) in 1972. The original factory was demolished in 1972 and used as a car park until redeveloped in 2019-2020 for the University of Brighton. —Here is Natal Road. —This was the borough boundary until 1928. —Here is The Avenue. †Lower Moulsecoomb Farm. —Here is The Highway. —Here is Hillside. —Here is Moulsecoomb Way. —Here is Ringmer Road. —Here is Barcombe Road. Southern Water offices are on the site of Brighton Corporation Waterworks' Falmer Pumping Station, the land for which was bought by the Borough of Brighton from the Earl of Chichester and trustees in August 1900¹⁸.	Ba1822— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/210 ²ESRO DB/D/27/151 ³HE 1380666 ⁴HE 1381667 ⁵HE 1381668 ⁶HE 1381669, 1381670 ⁷HE 1381671 ⁸HE ⁹HE 1381673 ¹⁰YMCA ¹¹ESRO D/D/7/1632, 12 Jan 1879 ¹²ESRO D/D/7/2413, 4 Mar 1886 ¹³ESRO BH/G/2/207 ¹⁴HE 1380662 ¹⁵HE 1380665 ¹⁶HE 1380663 ¹⁷HE 1000222 ¹⁸ESRO ACC 7600/22 ¹⁹The Builder, 7 June 1851:368 ²⁰The Builder, 12 July 1851:436 ²¹Building News, 15 March 1861:236
† Lewes Road, houses known as back of	Descriptive address.	Census1861
† Lewes Road Station	Opened on 1 September 1873 at the corner of D'Aubigny Road and Richmond Road. Steps led up to the station from Lewes Road. Sainsbury's supermarket is on the site.
Lewes Street BN2 9LS	From 13 Albion Hill to Southover Street. 'Small tenements now building in Fo1852. Only a rump remains as a car park off Southover Street.	Fo1852—
† Lewis's Buildings	Aka Lewes Buildings and Lewis Buildings; both Lewis Buildings and Lewis's Buildings are in the 1826 Ratebook on different pages but could be the same. Twitten west from 36 Ship Street to 27 Duke Street (Duke's Court).	Ratebook1826; Census1841; Ta1854–Pi1929
Leybourne Close, Lower Bevendean BN2 4LU	Cul-de-sac. Terraced bungalow cottages. No properties listed in Ke1951.	Ke1951—
Leybourne Parade, Bevendean BN2 4LW	Shops with flats above on the corner of Leybourne Road and Taunton Road.	Ke1954—
Leybourne Road, Bevendean BN2 4LT	No properties listed in Ke1949.	Ke1949—
† Lime Street	The name implies the presence of a lime tree when named. Small houses.	[1826] Fo1852–Pa1871
Limney Road, Whitehawk BN2 5QS	Numbered 10 August 1988¹.	¹ESRO DB/D/27/429
Linchmere Avenue, Saltdean BN2 8LE	Numbered 6 June 1957¹. Linchmere is a village on the West Sussex/Surrey border to the north of Chichester.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/348
Lincoln Cottages BN2 9UJ	Built by Davey Bros in 1898 at 61 Lincoln Street: then 12 houses plus stables¹.	Pi1901— ¹ESRO DB/D/7/4682, 4690, 4722
Lincoln Road, Portslade BN41 1LL	The city boundary is at the western end of the road.	Ke1947—
Lincoln Street BN2 9UG, 9UH	Built in the late 1860s and named after Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the recently assassinated US president. (See also Grant Street, Jackson Street, Washington Street.) Renumbered 20 April 1881¹. 33 was the birthplace in 1890 of social activist Harry Cowley.	Pa1881— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/204
Lindfield Close, Saltdean BN2 8AB	Numbered 3 March 1966, with supplementary numbering 6 May 1970 and 10 Apri 1972¹. Lindfield is a town close to Haywards Heath.	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/424
Links Close, Portslade BN41 1XN		Ke1947—
† Links Gardens, Portslade		Ke1947–Ke1949
Links Road, Portslade BN41 1XG, 1XH	Along the line of a track from Victoria Road to Hangleton Golf Course, for which the club house was at the southern end of the path.	Ke1947—
Linton Road, Hove BN3 5HF	From 31 Stoneham Road to 42 Payne Avenue. Two-storey terraced housing built in 1903-1905. 1-27, 29-37 (odd) on the east side were designed by J W B Blackman for S C Smale & Son¹.	To1904— 2-38 (even) were designed by E Birch for Trimm & Mills². ¹ESRO DO/C/6/2486 (30 Nov 1903), /2554 (14 Jun 1904) ²ESRO DO/C/6/2629 (30 Jan 1905)
† Lintott Avenue, Whitehawk	From 182 Whitehawk Road to 51 Wiston Road. Built in the 1930s, misspelt on the 1938 OS map, and named after Alderman John Lintott, builder and surveyor and member of the council's housing sub-committee, who built numerous properties in east Brighton. It was just to the south of St Cuthman's Church and was removed in the reconfiguration of the Whitehawk estate.	Ke1933–Ke1973
† Lion Gardens	Adjacent to Clifton Terrace.	Census1861
Lion Mews, Hove BN3 5RA	Private road, previously listed with Richardson Road. †Aldrington National Schools, erected in 1888 was adjacent.	Pa1884
Lions Gate, Hove BN3 7JZ	Private road built by Brighton Lions Housing Society on a former sports ground off Rowan Avenue.
Liphook Close, Hollingdean BN1 7AZ	Cul-de-sac. Liphook is a village on the Sussex/Hampshire border.
† Lisburn Cottages, Portslade		[1881]
† Little Baker Street	From Kingsbury Road to Brunswick Place North.	Ta1854–Fo1862
† Little Castle Square	This was the section of Market Street south of Bartholomews. Number of properties in 1822: 27. It was incorporated into Market Street in the 1820s, after which some properties were listed in East Cliff. It disappeared altogether when the street was truncated by the construction in 1984-1987 of the then Ramada Renaissance (currently Leonardo Royal) Hotel in King's Road. ph †10, The Jolly Fisherman was here in 1822. It became 35 Market Street.	Co1799–Ba1822 map c1824
Little Crescent, Rottingdean BN2 7GF	Numbered 6 September 1948¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/285
Little East Street BN1 1HT Old Town conservation area	South-western branch of East Street, formerly known as Little Castle Square [qv above]. [ph] †3 was the City of Edinburgh by 1832 until 1870. It is now a restaurant. 6 Andrew's Cottages was formerly two shops (an ironmonger's and a stationer's) dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, the two being merged as Samuel Andrew's fishing tackle shop in 1845. Now a café, it is Grade II listed¹. 7 was the residence of architect Amon Wilds in 1812; he also owned nos 8 and 9—all since demolished and replaced. 8, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, was built as a residence, now a shop, is Grade II listed². ph †17was the Three Tuns Tavern by 1839 and closed c1895.	Co1799— ¹HE 1381674 ²HE 1381675 map c1824
Little George Street BN2 1RR East Cliff conservation area.	Number of properties in 1822: 8. It was rebuilt in 1988 to replace a row of cottages demolished in 1974.	Ba1822—
Little Laine	The area of land defined in modern terms as to the east of Old Steine and lying between Edward Street and Marine Parade as far as Bedford Street. It was divided into two sections (furlongs): Upper, north of St James's Street, and Cliff.
† Little Norfolk Street	At 30 Western Street.	Fo1848–Pa1871
∫ Little Pimlico	The section of Pimlico close to North Road; renamed Tichborne Street.	Fo1864–Pa1871
Little Preston Street BN1 2HQ Regency Square conservation area.	Built 1820s. Numbering is sequential from ther south-east corner, returning down the west side. However, many are the rear of properties in Preston Street (east side) or Sillwood Street (west side) †Prince's Brighton Tennis Club was on the west side, behind the Bedford Hotel (see King's Road). From the early 1790s the site was used as a riding school and became a tennis court c1823. Prince Albert played here on 19 February 1842 during a royal stay at the Pavilion and was so impressed that he decided to build a court at Buckingham Palace². However, after professional tennis player Tompkins, the tenant, left in 1887 it fell into disuse. It was rescued by the Prince's Club, London in association with the Bedford Hotel. The side walls remained but a new court was built on arches, with a gallery along the length of the court, seating 300-400. The club's president was the Duke of Fife, who was present at the opening match between Hon A Lyttleton and Charles Sanders at 2:15pm on Saturday 4 November 1893; also among those present were Arthur Balfour, the future prime minister, the Earl of Iveagh, Gerald Loder MP, Reuben Sassoon and Sir William Hart Dyke bt MP, who was a member of the MCC committee that formulated the first set of rules for lawn tennis¹. ph †4½ was the Burton Arms from 1880 to 1910. ph †15 was the Boatman's Arms from 1867 to 1947. [ph] 21 opened as The Independent c1859 but became The Dependant by 1865. It ceased licensed trade after the Second World War and became and engineerign works until c1970. It was then the Public House Bookshop, which closed on 1 May 1999. It was converted to residential, retaining its original appearance, and is now a micro-hotel, which could be mistaken for a pub. Image: (left to right) The owner of the Public House Bookshop, Richard Cupidi, poets Lee Harwood, Allen Ginsberg and his partner Peter Orlovsky [Source: Richard Cupidi, QueenSpark Books]	Br1846— ¹The Times, 6 November 1893: 12 ²The Builder, 15 March 1845:128c
† Little Russell Court	Built 1780s. Lost in the Churchill Square development.	Pi1917–Pi1928
† Little Russell Street	Built 1780s. Lost in the Churchill Square development. †Little Russell Street Court. St Paul's Church of England Primary School was founded here in 1887 by Rev Arthur Henry Wagner.	Co1799–Ke1974
† Little St James's Street	Number of properties in 1822: 34. Demolished as slums c.1889; rebuilt as St James's Avenue.	Ba1822–Pi1889
† Little Ship Street Gardens		Census1861
Little Western Street, Brighton BN1 2QH, 2PU Regency Square conservation area.	This is the east side of the street, which forms the boundary between Brighton and Hove. Built 1820s. 'Small tenements.' [ph] 11 was a beerhouse between at least 1848 and 1854, no doubt appropriately called The Speculating Builder. It is now residential.	Br1846—
Little Western Street, Hove BN3 1AG Brunswick Town conservation area.	This is the west side of the street that forms the boundary between Brighton and Hove. Built 1820s.	Br1846—
Littleworth Close, Woodingdean BN2 6TF	Cul-de-sac.	Ke1966—
† Liverpool Street	Former street between Richmond Street and Sussex Street; the site is now covered by Chates Farm Court in John Street. No properties listed in Ke1969.	Fo1861–Ke1969
Livingstone Road, Hove BN3 3WL, 3WN, 3WP	ph Exchange [Hotel], formerly the Dolphin Arms, was sold to Charles Burrell, a public house keeper, by George Gallard for £250 in December 1876. The following April Gallard sold Burrell a further piece of land on the south side of the street to build not more than two houses but which were used as a ginger beer factory¹. 1881. 56 (formerly 58) was the Hove Parochial Institution, Hove Corporation Public Baths. It is now occupied by the glass manufacturing company Cox and Barnard.	Pa1877— ¹ESRO AMS5681/37
Livingstone Street	Linking street between Hendon Street and Rochester Street. 'No houses' in Pa1882.	Pa1882— ¹ESRO AMS5681/37
Lloyd Close BN3 6LZ	15 is a detached eco house built in 2010 at a cost of £550,000 to a design by Mark Pelland of Koru Architects. It won the 2011 RIBA Downland Prize for sustainability.
Lloyd Road BN3 6NL	13 was designed by Clayton & Black in 1926 and extended on the south side in 2014.	Pi1926—
† Lock Row		[1826]
Lock's Crescent, Portslade BN41 2AD	S-shaped road of two-storey (former) social housing.	Ke1969—
Lock's Hill, Portslade BN41 2LA, 2LB, 2LD Portslade conservation area (Loxdale and grounds, Manor Lodge & grounds, woodland to south).	St Nicolas Church School, now part of Brackenbury Primary School, was designed by Edmund Scott and built by John King on land acquired and donated by Hannah Brackenbury for the purpose of building a school for children of 'the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes of the Parish of Portslade'. It opened on 25 May 1872. It is on the B&H local list. 1a, 1b, 2 and 3 Manor Lodge was a house of c1810, enlarged towards the end of the century, previously known as The Lodge, Old Portslade; now flats. It is Grade II listed¹. †6 was built on land donated by John Eardley Hall and designed by E H L Barker in 1903 as the infant department of St Nicolas School, on the opposite side of the road. It closed in 1983 and was vacant until being demolished in 2018, despite being on the B&H local list. It has been replaced by a terrace of four houses. 8 dates originally from the 18th century. It is Grade II listed². Loxdale was designed by Samuel Denman and built in 1899 for Walter Mews, owner with his brother of Portslade Brewery. From 1925 it was successively a boys' orphanage, an officers' mess, an approved school and since 1979 has been a Swedish Folk High School. It is on the B&H local list. Freeman's Cottages. Portslade National Schools.	Pa1891 ¹HE 1298642 ²HE 1208675
Lockwood Close, Woodingdean BN2 6UJ	Three-storey council apartment blocks, named and numbered 3 March 1966 with supplementary numbering 29 September 1989¹. Philip Causton Lockwood was the Brighton Borough Surveyor.	Ke1969— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/442
Lockwood Crescent, Woodingdean BN2 6UG, 6UH	Numbered 3 June 1965¹ with supplementary numbering 3 March 1966 ². Philip Causton Lockwood was the Brighton Borough Surveyor.	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/429 ²ESRO DB/D/27/442
Loder Place	Linking road between Loder Road and Bates Road. No residential properties; garages. Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, was Conservative MP for Brighton.	Pi1926—
Loder Road BN1 6PH, 6PJ, 6PL	Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, was Conservative MP for Brighton. Loder Road Council Schools were on the southern side of the junction with Balfour Road from c1906 until replaced by Balfour Road Elementary School (now Balfour Primary School) further north c1925. Dorothy Stringer High School opened in 1955. It is named after Alderman Dorothy Stringer.	Pi1901—
Lodge Close, Portslade BN41 2PZ	Cul-de-sac of two-storey detached and terraced housing off Edgehill Way.
† Lodge['s] Buildings	At 17 Little St James's Street.	[1851-1854] Fo1856–Pa1893
Lodge Gate, Portslade		[1881]
Lodsworth Close, Whitehawk BN2 5QG	Cul-de-sac off Swanborough Drive. The northernmost road in Whitehawk. Three- and four-storey apartment blocks, called Linchmere, Blackdown, Brockhurst, Lodsworth and Tillington. Lodsworth is a village near Chichester in West Sussex.
Lomond Avenue, Patcham BN1 8SN	Semi-detached bungalows with traces of moderne influence.	Ke1936—
London Road BN1 4HF, 4JA, 4JB, 4JD, 4JE, 4JG, 4JH, 4PH, 4UF Valley Gardens conservation area (no 144 only).	is in three sections: • the southern part from York Place (adjacent to St Peter's Church) to Preston Circus—the southerly part of that in turn developed in the 1810s and known initially as Queen's Road. This suggests the queen referred to was Queen Charlotte, George III's consort. The name may have been changed after the accession of George IV, whose relationship with his queen was shakey and this might have been seen as insensitive, although she died before the change of name was embedded. • the central part, north of Clermont Road (the section between these two is Preston Road) and • the northern part, north from Peacock Lane to the city boundary, are listed separately below. Numbering is sequential from the south-west corner, reeturning down the east side. SOUTH-WEST SIDE (south to north) —Here is Ann Street (at 17). 1-2 was a Woolworth store, opened on 29 October 1927. It closed in 1965 when Woolworth moved to 27-31 (see below) and was taken over by J Sainsbury to extend as a self-service supermarket, which closed on 28 February 2007. It is now an Aldi supermarket. 3 was a J Sainsbury store (see 1-2 above). —Here is Ann Street (at 17). [ph] 21 was the Grape Vine from 1869 to 1893. It was used for retail, latterly as a charity shop until 2021 and now a nail bar. 27-31 was an outfitters called Rosling's, starting at no 31 in 1905 and extending to the neighbouring premises in 1932. The company closed in 1960 and the premises were unused until becoming a Woolworths store in 1965. When Woolworths failed in December 2008, it later became a 99p Store. 28-36 were formerly known as Belgrave Terrace North . 29 was known as Cable House until c1932. ph 53, The New Unity opened in 1854 as the Branch Tavern. It was owned by Kidd & Hotblack when rebuilt by Clayton & Black in 1900/1905 and taken over by Tamplin, for whom Arthur Packham reburblished in 1933. It has been called The New Unity since 2018. —Here is York Hill. 73 was the residence of Alderman Daniel Friend, the developer of the Clermont Estate and Prestonville). —Here is Preston Circus. NORTH-EAST SIDE (north to south) ph 75. Hare and Hounds has been here since no later than 1832. It was rebuilt to a design by Denman & Matthew in 1905. [ph] 76 was a beerhouse called the Fox from 1846 to the late 1890s. —Here is Rose Hill Terrace. †86 J A Erredge, author of a History of Brighthelmston, had a day school here in the 1850s. 87 is St Bartholemew's Vicarage, attributed to Amon Henry Wilds and Charles Busby and built 1822-30 with later additions. Grade II listed² in 1952. 88 Methodist Church was designed by London architect James Weir and built in 1894 (for a Primitive Methodist congregation), with alterations in 1910 (forward extension and new frontage) and c.1938 (facade rendered over original brick). The organ by Holditch came from the Goldstone Villas Methodist Church in 1933 and the communion rail from St Margaret's in St Margaret's Place in 1958. There are plaques to Rev William Dinnick and Alderman Edward Lowther³. Sold by the church c2006. It ha ssuffered periods of closure between becoming a restaurant/arts venue called The Emporium and since 2020 is a games centre. 94-103 was the Brighton Co-operative Store, built in 1931 and designed by Bethell & Swannell. It was the largest department store in Brighton and closed in 2007. It was used in 2010 for a memorable installation, Before I Sleep, by Dreamthinkspeak, based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Only the façade remains, the rest of the building being demolished and replaced by student accommodation with retail units on the ground floor. It has been on the B&H local list since 2012. —Here is Baker Street. 104 was the residence of Edmund Stevens, the last of the Brighton coach proprietors. —Here is Marshall's Row (at 109). [ph] 113 was the Elephant & Castle by 1832 until the 1970s, when it changed to retail (Forfar's bakery). It has been a restaurant since 2015. —Here is Francis Street (at 113). New shops between Francis Street and Oxford Street were numbered 15 December 1904¹. —Here is Oxford Street (at 117). ph †119 opened as a beerhouse called the Spotted Dog by 1843 and changed its name to the Mechanic's Arms by 1869.It closed in 1970 and was demolished to make way for a Fine Fair retail store, later Somerfield, then Co-operative Food. It was demolished in 2020 and replaced by new retail units and student accommodation. [ph] 120 opened as the London Road Inn by 1859 and became the Duke of Connaught by 1880. It has been Co-operative Funeral Care since c1971. ph †124 was a beerhouse called The Lamb & Flag by 1839 until c1871. ph †126 was the Shepherd & Dog, which opened by 1891 and closed in 1960. —Here is Oxford Place (at 132). —Here is Brunswick Row (formerly Brunswick Court) (at 134). 140 is dated 1933 and bears the insignia of P Corbin & Son, decorators' merchant. It is now a Macdonald's fast food restaurant. [ph] 143 opened as the Country House Tavern by 1859 but had become The Prince of Wales by 1864. It closed c1970 and changed to retail. Now an opticians. —Here is Queen's Place (at 143). —Here is St Peter's Place (at 144).	¹ESRO DB/D/27/186 ²HE 1381676 ³Roughwood
London Road, Preston BN1 6RN, 6RP, 6YL	• Includes house names listed before First World War, in sequence northwards from the Brighton borough boundary at Preston. WEST SIDE northwards †Tivoli Gardens were pleasure gardens immediately outside the then boundary of Brighton that was bisected by the railway, crossed by a footbridge at the northern end of the platforms of Preston Park station from what is now Station Road. All that remains is Tivoli Copse to the west of the railway line. Tower House. See Towergate. †The Homestead †267, Shalimar. Sold at auction December 1908. Comprised 12 bed- and dressing rooms, well-fitted bathroom, closets, porch and vestibule with tesselated pavement, cloakroom, large lounge hall, drawing-room, dining-room, billiard-room, kitchen, scullery, pantry, two larders, superior domestic offices; about 1.5 acres with tennis lawn, flower beds, rosery, productive walled kitchen garden, three hot-water heated greenhouses, aviary and chicken house.¹. The name was changed to Tivoli, after Tivoli Gardens (see above) and was bought by Brighton Borough Council from Mrs May Rosetta Lansbury on 11 October 1948⁷. —Here is Elms Lea Avenue.] †Elms Lea. Elms Lea Avenue replaced it. †Beechwood was built in 1877 on three acres of land acquired from the Withdean estate by Thomas Martin. It was the residence of W H Vokins and family until 1956. Demolished in the late 1950s, it was replaced by the Curwen Place flats. —Here are Curwen Place and Leahurst Court Road.] †Lea Hurst was a 12-bedroom house, built on a four-acre site in the 1860s and initially called The Laurels. It was the residence of Charles Kingston, mayor of Brighton in 1927, and family from 1928 to 1946. From 1952 to 1958 it was the headquarters of 3701 (County of Sussex) Royal Auxiliary Air Force Radar Unit. Sold at auction for £47,500 in 1959, it was demolished and replaced by Leahurst Court Road. †St Dennis †Withdean Grange was built in the 1860s on four acres of land. —Here is Cedars Gardens.] †Miramichi was built in the 1860s on over two acres of land. The house remained when the grounds were developed as Cedars Gardens in 1932, was later renamed the Cedars but was demolished in the early 1980s and replaced by a low-rise complex of flats with the same name. †Roedeane Cottage was part of the Withdean estate, taking its name from William Roe rather than the district to the east of the town. There was a chapel in the grounds and both were cleared to make way for †Withdean Court, built for Dame Eliza Ogle, daughter of William Thomas Roe, in 1871, to replace the house of the same name on the north side of the junction with Peacock Lane. It was designed by Holford & Clayton and built by J Parsons & Sons. Later the occasional residence of Eldred Curwen. It was later known as Dene Court. In 1933 it was acquired by music hall artiste Willy Pantzer and renamed Pantzer Mansions. It was demolished c1962 and replaced by Tongdean Court. †Western Withdean Cottages †Le Chalet †Withdean Farm —Here is Tongdean Lane.] Karibu and Tabora was one farmhouse built in the late 18th or early 19th century, since divided into two cottages, which are Grade II listed². [Here is The Deneway.] The Priory block of flats was built in the 1970s on the site of a Victorian house with that name. †Sunnyside was the residence of Jeffery Farnol from 1921 to 1937. †National Fire Service Headquarters Area 31 were here during and after World War II. †Police Station was here from the late 19th century until 1954. †Railway Cottages South Patcham Place dates from 1588, altered in the late 17th century and enlarged at the front c1814-1820. In c1620-1655 it was occupied by Anthony Stapley (1590-1655), a leading Puritan and supporter of the Parliamentarians. His signature is among the 59 on the death warrant of Charles I. The building, which was Grade II* listed¹ in 1952, remained in the Stapley family, one of the principal landowning dynasties in the area, until the end of the 19th century and is now a Youth Hostel. The 18th-century south-west stable block is Grade II listed². See also Old London Road. EAST SIDE northwards Grove Lodge was built in the 1860s. In the 1940s it was taken over to become part of the Lourdes Convent Boarding and Day School for Girls (see below). It is now part of St Bernadette's Roman Catholic primary school. The lodge house has remained a separate private residence. †St John's Villa started in the 1850s as a seminary for young ladies. At the opening of the 20th century it was acquired by the Sisters of Christian Instruction and became the Lourdes Convent Boarding and Day School for Girls (see Preston Park Hotel above). †Woodslee. Built in the 1840s and was a private residence until it too was acquired the Sisters and added to Lourdes School in the 1920s. Both were demolished in 1972, although some trees from the original gardens were saved. Kingsmere Flats are on the site of St John's Villa and Woodslee. †Springfield †Withdean Lodge †Withdean House, later called Hatch Beauchamp was built c.1870 in grounds of three and a half acres adjoining Varndean Road. The house was demolished in 1937 and replaced by Withdean Court, a development of five blocks containing 79 flats built on the Hatch Beauchamp site. †Fir Croft †Effingham Lodge †Laine House Withdean Hall. See The Approach. †Withdean Home Farm Bourne Court is on the site of Withdean Farm, which was demolished c1934. †Old Court (Withdean estate office) Land at the junction with Peacock Lane and opposite on the west side was bought by Brighton Borough Council from Braybons Ltd on 28 May 1940³. Home Farm House on the southern corner of Peacock Lane was built on the Withdean estate in the early 19th century with later additions. Grade II listed⁴ in 1971. The flint and brick surrounding walls on all sides are 18th century and were separately Grade II listed in 1999 but do not appear so now. Villas in 1881 Aberdeen Villa, Acacia House, Bastledon House, Black Lion, Cairn Ryan Lodge, Clifton Villa, Clyde Villa, Clydesdale Villa, Cromer Lodge, Crown and Anchor, Engadin Villa, Gaistor Lodge, Grange Lodge, Povis Cottages, Preston Villa. †Cliveden was a house built in the 1850s, previous known as Hartford Villa and then Springfield Villa, on the site of which now stands the Cliveden Court apartment block. The gate house lodge, built in 1885 remains and is Grade II listed⁵. †Dean Lands was a tenement of messuage, stable and croft in the 17th century⁶.	¹Brighton Gazette, 4 November 1908:8b ²HE 1381685 ³ESRO BH/G/2/222 ⁴HE 1381684 ⁵HE 1381678 ⁶ESRO ACC8745/34 ⁷ESRO BH/G/2/214
London Road, Patcham BN1 8PZ, 8QA, 8QQ Patcham conservation area (Black Lion Hotel PH, Patcham Lodge, Patcham Place, Sports Pavilion at Patcham Recreation Ground, Patcham Recreation Ground, Coney Wood).	The Pylons were designed by John Leopold Denman and installed on either side of the A23 in 1928 to mark the boundary of the borough of Brighton after its extension to include Patcham. The foundation stones were laid by the Duke (the future George VI) and Duchess of York in April 1928. A time capsule was buried beneath them. Because of road widening, the western pylon now stands between the two carriageways of the A23. The pylons and the seats next to them are Grade II listed³. EAST SIDE: ph Black Lion opened c1890 and was reuilt by Denman & Son in 1928-1929. It is now a steakhouse. †Norbury	¹ESRO DB/D/27/186 ¹HE 1381686 ²HE 1381687 ³HE 1381679, 1381680 (east), 1381681, 1381682 (west)
† London Street	From 16 Ann Street to 8 York Road. No properties listed after Ke1970. It was removed as part of the wider redevelopment of the area. ph †40, City of London opened in 1865. It was owned by Kidd & Hotblack and then by Tamplins, from whom it was compulsorily purchased by Brighton Corporation on 2 June 1969. 1 2 Image 2: Demolition under way, only the City of London PH remains.	Census1851; Ta1854–Ke1973
London Terrace BN1 4JP, 4ZP	Cul-de-sac off Rosehill Terrace, formerly accessed from Baker Street by a twitten, now still connected by a gated covered walkway beneath student accommodation. 'Houses now building' in Fo1856. 1	Fo1856—
Longhill Close, Ovingdean BN2 7AX	Cul-de-sac.	Ke1949—
Longhill Road, Ovingdean BN2 7BD, 7BE, 7BF	Follows the line of a track from the coast road across Tenant Hill, marked with boundary stones. It was developed after World War II and numbered 16 June 1948¹.	Ke1949— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/284
Longridge Avenue, Saltdean BN2 8BU, 8LG, 8LH, 8LJ, 8LX, 8LY, 8RQ	Numbered 7 February 1957 with supplementary numbering 5 June 1958¹. ph 4, Spanish Lady opened in 1958. Ocean Hotel, currently called the Grand Ocean. was built in 1938, designed by R W H Jones in reinforced concrete. The engineers were J L Kier & Co. The front block is Grade II listed², as are the walls and gate piers³. Behind this are five wings, designed to allow for seasonal closure. During World War II the hotel was occupied by the Auxiliary Fire sevice and became a fire service college, opened by HErbert Morrison, the home secrewtary. In 1952 the elase was taken by Billy Butlin at a cost of £250,000 and re-opened as a hotel in May 1953. The Grand Hotel Group bought it in 1999, converted it into apartments and in 2008 built four blocks of apartments, arranged in a fan shape to alignw ith the earier building.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/344 ²HE 1381688 ³HE 1381689
Looes Barn Close, Saltdean BN2 8GZ	Cul-de-sac of bungalows off Saltdean Vale. Looes Barn was here, apparently surviving as a barn conversion at no 6. The OS 1928/29 revision shows a planned road called Looes Avenue to the north-west in a cluster of roads never built.
Lorna Road, Hove BN3 3EL, 3EN, 3EP Willett Estate conservation area.	Built 1880s. The eastern section north of Cromwell Road was originally known as Kemp's Terrace. 'House building' in Pa1881. Renumbered 1930. Numbers were previously sequential, beginning on the west side at the Cromwell Road junction. 77-91 Doone Terrace [below] was designed by W Galsworthy Davie and built 1880 by J G Sheldon of Cliftonville for the West Brighton Estate Company¹. 87 was the residence in 1882-1884 of Richard Jefferies. Plaque. 99 (then 2) was the grocer's shop featured in James Williamson's film Our New Errand Boy (1905). Image: The Building News, 3 September 1880.	Pa1881— ¹Building News, 3 September 1880.
Lorne Road, Preston BN1 4NL	Terraced street, built c1875, and named, like the nearby Argyle Road and Campbell Road after John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, who married Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's fourth daughter, on 21 March 1871 and was heir to the dukedom of Argyll. 1-15 (odd) and 2-26 (even) were designed by C O Blaber in 1875¹.	Pa1877— ¹ESRO DB/D/7/1245-1248 (12 Jan 1875); DB/D/7/1306 (31 Aug 1875)
∫ Lorne Villas, Preston	Part of the Clermont estate,now part of Clermont Terrace.	Pa1881—
† Lovers Lane, Preston		1881
Lover's Walk BN1 6AH Preston Village conservation area (1-6 Lover's Walk Cottages, 1-7 consecutive)/	Numbered 20 April 1881¹. The torso of Celia Holloway, murdered by her husband in North Steine Row, was buried in a trunk in the copse next to the lane in 1831, the first Brighton trunk murder. Villas in 1881: Bankside, Fernleigh, Heasmonds, The Nook, Park Villa.	Pa1881— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/180
Lower Bevendean Avenue, Bevendean BN2 4FE	Numbered 24 October 1935¹.	Ke1934— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/1
Lower Chalvington Place, Whitehawk BN2 5GZ	Cul-de-sac with pedestrian footways and terracing leading to Upper Chalvington Place.
† Lower Clarence Street	At 1 Cannon Terrace, Russell Square.	Ta1854–Pa1871
∫ Lower College Street	Early name for the section of College Street.
† Lower Grenville Place	Number of properties in 1822: 10.	Ba1822
Lower Market Street, Hove BN3 1AT Brunswick Town conservation area.	Part of the Brunswick Estate. Numbering is sequential from the south-east corner (but see 38-42). 1-2 were built as a pair in the 1830s and restored at the end of the 20th century. Grade II listed¹. ph †3, The Horse & Groom was here by 1832 and closed by 1907. An apartment block, confusingly labelled Kerrison Mews, now occupies the site. 6-10 were originally built c1825, modified late in the century and restored at the end of the 20th century. Grade II listed². 8 still bears a fire insurance plaque between the second-floor windows. [ph] 10 was the Market Inn from 1891 to 1926. ph 16, Bottom's Rest dates from c1868 and was called The Conqueror for over 145 years until c2015. [ph] 34 was The Hero of Waterloo from 1854 to 1901. [ph] 35 was The Carpenters Arms, listed intermittently from 1839 to 1893. 38-42 were never allocated. The plot of freehold land in the gap was sold at auction in March 2024 for £234,000. 45 was a town mission room in c1890-c1951.	Fo1848— ¹HE 1187575 ²HE 1208898
Lower Promenade BN2 1ET	Laid out between the piers in 1886. 1 2 3
† Lower Regency Mews	At 42 Regency Square.	Ta1854–Pa1871
Lower Rock Gardens BN2 1PG East Cliff conservation area.	Named after the nearby Rock House, which stood on the later site of Chain Pier House at 48 Marine Parade. Number of properties in 1822: 27. 8-9 are Grade II listed¹. 21 was the residence of an aunt of Aubrey Beardsley, where he stayed for much of his childhood. (See also Buckingham Road.)	Ba1822— ¹HE 1381690
∫ Lower Rock Mews	Former name of Rock Place.	Fo1848–Fo1861
Lower Tongdean	See Tongdean.
† Lower Town	The part of Brighton below the cliffs, mainly occupied by sailors and fishermen. It was destroyed by a storm in 1703.
Lowther Road BN1 6LF, 6LG, 6LH	The road was developed between 1898 and when it was re-numbered 17 December 1903¹, Keating applied for Brighton Borough Council approval for six houses, to be designed/built by Burstow, on 1 September 1898². Alderman Edward Lowther was a councillor for Preston ward. 2b was designed by JMP Architects & Designers c2009. Image: Bomb damage, 13 March 1943.	Pi1901— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/120 ²ESRO DB/D/7/4794
Lucerne Close, Portslade BN41 2FF	Interwar-years (?) semi-detached houses.	Ke1964—
Lucerne Road BN1 6GH Preston Park conservation area.	'A new road' in Pi1888; the first property (no 1) was listed in 1893. 4-13 were	Pi1888—
Lucraft Road, Moulescoombe/Falmer BN2 4PN	No properties listed in Ke1964. Supplementary numbering 3 September 1964¹. George Lucraft was mayor of Brighton in 1973-74. Brighton Aldridge Community Academy opened in September 2010 in the buildings that until then had been Falmer High School. It originally opened in 1957 as Westlain Mixed Grammar School and, prior to becoming a comprehensive school, was merged in 1973 with the adjacent Stanmer Secondary (Modern) School which was designed by Kirk & Kirk and opened in 1950..	Ke1964— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/413
Ludlow Rise, Lower Bevendean BN2 4JJ	Two pairs of semi-detached houses facing a green. Electricity substation.	Ke1954—
Lullington Avenue, Hove BN3 7EQ	Interwar-years semi-detached houses.	Pi1929—
Lustrells Close, Saltdean	Numbering 3 January 1963¹ with supplementary numbering 6 May 1970 and 10 April 1972².	Ke1966— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/408 ²ESRO DB/D/27/424
Lustrells Crescent, Saltdean BN2 8AS	Numbered 1 November 1961¹. 95-97, Newlands Barn is a mid-19th century barn, converted for residential purposes. Including 123 Saltdean Vale, it is Grade II listed¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/394 ¹
Lustrells Road, Rottingdean BN2 7DS	Ke1966—
Lustrells Vale, Saltdean BN2 8FA, 8FB, 8FD, 8FE, 8FY	Numbered 7 April 1960 with supplementary numbering 5 January 1961¹.	Ke1947— ¹ESRO DB/D/27/372
Luther Mews	Private road, built as a continuation of Luther Street.	¹
Luther Street BN2 9YR	Cul-de-sac. Built 1879-1880 and numbered 20 April 1881¹ consecutively: southwards down the east side, returning on the west side. This is one of several streets in the Elm Grove area named after philosophers.	Pa1881— ¹
∫ Lyall Street	Former name of Chesham Place. 'Houses now building' in Fo1856.	Fo1856–Fo1861
Lyminister Avenue BN1 8JL, 8JN	Part numbered 31 January 1952¹ and part renumbered 4 February 1964².	¹ESRO DB/D/27/296A ²ESRO DB/D/27/421
Lynchet Close, Hollingdean BN1 7EY, 7FP	Cul-de-sac off Brentwood Road. A lynchet is a ridge formed by ploughing. Hertford Junior School. Hollingdean Park. Lower Roedale allotments.
Lynchet Down, Hollingdean BN1 7FR	Cul-de-sac off Lynchet Close.
Lynchet Walk, Hollingdean BN1 7FQ	Cul-de-sac off Lynchet Close.
Lynchets Crescent, Hangleton BN3 8EL	A lynchet is a ridge formed by ploughing.
Lyndhurst Road, Hove BN3 6FA, 6FB, 6FZ	Goldsmid estate. Terraced housing built 1907-1914, that is named after John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst¹. 9A was converted from a shop to a house c2017.	Pi1909— ¹Carder (1990)
Lynton Street BN2 9XQ, 9XR	Terraces. 'Houses building' in Pa1881. The west side, opening onto the street, was built by Card for Shelley³. 1,3,5,7 were built by Dallimore for Davey¹. 11-45 (odd), on the east side with narrow front areas, were built by Samuel Denman for Crossley².	Pa1881— ¹ESRO DB/D/7/1855 (8 June 1880) ²ESRO DB/D/7/1999 (6 April 1881)
Lyon Close, Hove BN3 1RX, 1SE	On the site of a former railway goods yard, which closed on 14 June 1971. It is now a cul-de-sac off Davigdor Road through an industrial estate where apartment blocks are being built. It is named after the former landowner, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. Image: Holland Road goods yards looking south-west from behind Lyndhurst Road. [Source: Ian Nolan, Flickr]

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