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Albany Villas, HOVE, BN3 2LY

The home of Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, founding Governor of South Australia. Lived at 30 Albany Villas, Hove. 1857-1859.

Small backstreet running between Hove Place and Osborne Villas. The older buildings are in the middle with newer small scale terracing to the north and Parnell Flats to the immediate right. The latter are named after Charles Stewart Prnell who lived in nearby Medina Terrace.

On the corner of Hove Place and Medina Villas is this late Victorian house now subdivided into flats.

Small mews that connects Hove Place to Osborne Villas that was developed in the 1850s. The road is called Cliftonville Mews on the 1875 OS map but has acquired its current name by the 1898 edition. The flats on the right are Parnell Court named after Charles Stewart Parnell who lived with Kitty O'Shea in nearby Medina Terrace.

This is the eastern side of the road that links Kingsway (A259) with Church Road (B2066). Fourth Avenue was part of the Stanford Estate that was the last of the Brighton and Hove coast to be developed. Like Cliftonville slow progress in selling plots and building houses meant that styles changed in the same street let alone different ones. The gables, red bricks being the last to be built. Fourth Avenue like many original higher class streets is wide enough to allow parking on either side of the road, double parking in the middle of the road and a large enough transit way either side for traffic.

Typical houses in the streets south of Church Road in Hove. Most of the street names here are called "Villas" as they formed part of the 'planned resort' of Cliftonville in the mid nineteenth century. This one taken in Albany Villas looking north.

The change in archectitectural styles is very pronounced here, with Hamilton Mansions part of the Stanford Estate built up in the late Victorian period and the houses to the west being part of the Cliftonville estate from the 1850s.