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Bevendean Road, BRIGHTON, BN2 4FN

The gates date from around 1900 and along with the two lodges that flank them are the only surviving parts of Bevendean Hospital. Built as an isolation hospital in 1881 during the outbreak of a smallpox epidemic the original buildings were wooden and thrown up quickly. By the 1890s they had come to the end of their working life and were subsequently replaced in 1898 by new stone buildings which included the gates. A further two wings were added between 1902-1905. It operated primarily as an isolation hospital until 1948 when it became part of the National Health Service though ironically it was isolated during part of 1951 following a local smallpox outbreak. The hospital's last years were spent mainly caring for psychiatric and geriatric patients and was closed to in-patients in April 1989 and for good in September 1990 after which the buildings were demolished. See http://www.bygones.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/Bevendean_Hospital41.jpg for an aerial image of the hospital.

Built in the late 19th century, Bevendean Hospital was closed in 1990 and then replaced by housing. These gates and gate piers on the south east side of Bevendean Road were retained and are Grade II Listed Buildings

Looking at old Google images it appears that some of the houses in Baden Road, which back onto these new builds, have sold about half of their back gardens to accommodate.

A children's play area in the Meadowview part of Brighton. Fitzherbert Drive is named after Mrs Fitzherbert who secretly married George IV when he was still Prince of Wales. She lived in Brighton for much of her life and is buried in Kemp Town.

Built around 2005, this short cul-de-sac is named after Arthur Borrow King (1924-1992), a Brighton councillor.

Some green open space on a modern (c. 2005) housing estate.

House at the junction of Tenantry Road and Fitzherbert Drive. The name 'Tenantry' comes from Tenantry Down and the area is in one of the former tenanted land divisions of Brighton known as 'laines'. 'Laine' was the local term for open arable fields common in medieval agriculture before enclosure.

Built in the mid 1990s on southern end of the site once occupied by Bevendean Hospital. Viewed from the junction with Bevendean Road.