438-448 South Coast Road, Telscombe Cliffs
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438-448 South Coast Road, Telscombe Cliffs
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 14 Oct 2012
Built in 1832 as the Portobello Coastguard Station opposite what was then an isolated inn, see Image, on the main coast road from Brighton to Seaford. It closed just before the First World War whereupon the cottages were renamed as The Moorings which itself disappeared sometime in the 1960s whereupon the houses are now just numbered from right to left, with the former watch house being 438. Viewed from the entrance of the Smuggler's Rest car park. For many years the coastguard owned the land to the rear of the property, known as Portobello Furlong according to Telsombe's 1842 tithe map, and initially refused to allow both the Cavendish Land Company and later Charles Neville develop it until the late 1930s at least.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.795826
Longitude
-0.021555