Percival Terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 4 Oct 2015

Built between 1845-50 and located between Chichester Place and Eaton Place. Those that have lived here include 19th century architect and writer James Knowles at number 3-4 and the liberal philosopher Herbert Spencer, who died at number 5 in 1903. Numbers 3-5 were an officers convalescent hospital during both First and Second World Wars as was number 10 during the former. However that collapsed in 1987 when a crater opened up in front of it in the early hours of the money with the building by then serving as a hall of residence for Brighton Polytechnic, see http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/percival_terrace_copyright_argus_21_nov_1987.jpg . Number 10 was immediately declared unsafe and demolished and number 9 soon followed. Numbers 7 and 8 would follow later when the terrace was rebuilt and restored between 1998-99. The only way of spotting the 'join' is by observing the various shades of magnolia the terrace is painted in, numbers 7-10 on the left look that little cleaner.

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