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Princes Avenue, HOVE, BN3 4GW

A little confusing as Princes Square is to the left of the house, the road in front being Princes Crescent as it turns west before heading south again. Princes Road veers to the right and heads to Hove Street. This part of Hove was developed from the early 20th century on former brickfields used to construct the grand estates of Brighton and Hove.

On the corner of Hove Street and Princes Avenue.

Linking Princes Avenue with New Church Road is the first of a number of roads built on the site of former brickfields used to construct much of Victorian Hove.

Erected in 1880 to serve the new estates being developed in the area.

Block of flats built in the 1930s on the site of the former Hove Manor that had been constructed in 1786 and demolished in 1933. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume12/source/jg_12_153.html for a view taken in 1915, and http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume12/source/jg_12_173.html for a view of the flats nearing completion in 1936. Hove Street itself had been the old village street heading north from the beach to the Downs and had originally been narrow and possessing a bend. This disappeared in the 1920s when the street was widened and developed. In the process all the old 18th and 19th century buildings were demolished, the last going in the 1980s.

From Princes Square.

All that remains of Hove Manor built in 1790 and demolished by the council in 1936. Hove Street was the original village street of Hove which a cluster of cottages, an inn and the manor stood. Today nothing remains of the original village except this wall.

The name Hove Manor still exists but is for these flats and parade of shops rather than the original Georgian manor house.

On the corner of Kingsway (A259) and Hove Street (A2023). Built in the late 1930s to augment the development of land to the west of Hove.

Three buildings located between Image to the south and Vallance Road to the north that were built around 1926. Audley House to the left was a purpose built fire station that replaced former premises in George Street and remained in operation until 1976 when it moved to its current site in English Close, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume12/source/jg_12_177.html for a view of the station in 1928. The building was converted into flats in 1981. Regent House in the middle was originally an electricity sub-station and is now combined offices and flats. Vallance House at the northern end to the left was originally a sorting office for the Royal Mail but has been converted into offices occupied by a solicitors practice since 2006. Previously the site had been part of a farm, see http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume12/source/jg_12_157.html for a view from the north taken in 1914.