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Ovingdean Road, BRIGHTON, BN2 7BR

Originally two separate cottages dating from the early 19th century which had the middle portion added sometime between 1839 and 1875 to create a single row. Their original location was at the northern entrance of the former Ovingdean Hall Farm.

Originally a barn belonging to Ovingdean Hall Farm that was converted to a pair of residences in the early 1980s. To the left is The Cot, the eastern end of three terraced cottages that also contains Image whilst between the two are Image

Looking out onto the junction with Longhill Road and dating from the early 1900s. Beyond is Grange Cottage with Cattle Hill visible in the distance.

The western end of a three terraced cottages that were built at different times between 1792 and 1795 as part of the Ovingdean Hall Farm complex. Beyond to the left is Image

Originally outbuildings of Ovingdean Hall Farm that were converted to residential use in the early 1980s. Number 1 on the left was originally a carriagehouse whilst 2 and 3 were once a granary. The small building located at the end of number 1 is a former well house that has now been boarded up. Beyond that is now number 6 which is a former barn. See also Image

A terrace of four dwellings built in the 1980s on the site of a former house called The Orchard. Constructed to fit sympathetically with the local surroundings.

Built in 1792 as Ovingdean House for Nathaniel Kemp a relation of Thomas Kemp who later built Kemp Town and father of Charles Eamer Kempe, the stained glass window artist. Kemp died in 1843 and the house remained in residential use until 1890 when it was converted into a school for young gentlemen. The school was evacuated in 1941 to Devon and was used by the Canadian Army during World War Two. After the war it was sold to the Brighton Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and reopened as another school in 1947 catering for 11-19 year olds with impaired hearing. With numbers falling the school was no longer financially viable and closed in 2010 and the building sold. This reopened as Ovingdean Hall College in 2011 an English language vocational school for foreign students, however, the venture was shortlived and financial problems caused its closure in May 2015. The suburb of Woodingdean can be seen in the distance.

A view of the northern side from Cattle Hill with Bulstrode Farm in the foreground, Ovingdean Hall School to the right and the 1930s editions across the top of Long Hill.

Heading eastwards up Long Hill from the junction with Longhill Road. With the western end of Ovingdean Road being narrow and winding in places through traffic is encouraged to head south. The house on the right above the wall was built on the site of a former chalk pit marked on the 1873 OS map as an old pit. The junction also marks an unofficial boundary between the old village and the newer residential area developed from the 1920s onwards.

Built in 1873 as the village school which lasted until 1907 when dwindling numbers forced its closure. It passed into the ownership of St Wulfran's church who used it as a church room until 1993 when it was leased out as a nursery which it remains today. Immediately beyond partially in view are Image and Image