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De Courcel Road, BRIGHTON, BN2 5TF

A residential road running between Boundary Road and Eastern Road. On the left is the rear of the former French Convalescent Home that opened in 1898, the foundation stone being laid by the then French ambassador, Baron de Courcel.

Although facing Marine Parade it is in De Courcel Road a small street running parallel with the main A259. Built in 1898 to take in patients from the French Hospital in London it was run for years as a home for French and other foreign nationals until 1986 when it became registered as a nursing home until the trustees sold the site for development in 1999, Its demolition was averted by being given grade II listing and it was subsequently sold on and developed into luxury apartments. It is designed to look like a French chateau and initially only had one tower, the eastern one, before the other was added in 1904.

On the junction with Arundel Street this building would not look out of place in Hove.

Opened in the 1850s as the Bush Inn when it was the only property in the road the rest of which wasn't developed until the late 1890s.

Opened in 1896 in association with the French government and French hospital in London for retired and ill French nationals living in the United Kingdom. It remained and such until 1986 when it became a nursing home which in turn was closed in 1999 and only averted demolition by being awarded grade II status. It has been redeveloped into luxury apartments.

Built in 1896 as the French Convalescent Home and formally opened in 1898 to house recuperating French nationals resident in the UK. It more or less became a nursing home very early and was run by the nuns of the Sisters of St Paul or Chartres until 1994. The trustees sold the building to a property developer in 1999 and closed the institution in the same year. Listed status was sought and successfully acquired to prevent its demolition with the building subsequently converted into luxury apartments. To the right is Courcels, a block of flats built in 1971, whose most famous resident was actor and broadcaster Wilfred Pickles who lived here for the last ten years of his life.

The B2118 from Marine parade to the junction with Bristol Gardens, Whitehawk Road and Roedean Road. The road was laid out in the 1850s but not really developed with housing until the early 1900s. Between 1897 and 1932 it was part of the main road out of Brighton when cliff falls at Black Rock closed the old clifftop highway. Viewed from the junction with Eastern Road with the old French Convalescent Home visible in the distance.

On the northern wall of house facing Eastern Place. Listed as 25.17m above ODN.

Opened in 1898 this became a convalescent home for French and other nationalities. For more information see: http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/military_hospitals_history2.htm This exraordinary, listed building has since been converted to flats. The site faces the sea and is very close to the Marina at Brighton

Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-479657-french-convalescent-home-and-attached-wa