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Portland Road, HOVE, BN3 5SU

Currently home to EDF customer services who inherited the building from Seeboard who had erected it in 1979. Previously the area was a field called Hog Croft in Aldrington's 1840 tithe map that was located to the immediate west of Aldrington Farm and was not developed until the 1920s when an engineering works was constructed which extended north to the railway. To the south facing onto Portland was a terrace of cottages. The factory closed in the 1970s and the site was acquired by Seeboard.

Currently home to the Hove branch of EDF Energy specifically dealing with customer services. The site was originally a small tools factory until 1975 when it closed and the land was purchased by Seeboard who built the current building and opened it in 1978. It is located on Portland Road.

Portland Road - Portslade towards Hove

Originally the site of Aldrington Farm it had become an ice works by the 1890s which in turn had disappeared by 1911. By 1932 the area by the railway had become a small works which remained the case until the mid 1970s when the adjacent machine tools factory was closed and the site was purchased by Seeboard. Martello House on the left was built in the mid 1970s and was for many years the local VAT office until its closure in 2009.

Three pairs of semi-detached houses built in the mid 1930s.

A new development of nine luxury commuter flats are being built on the site of Stretton Hall. The latter had constructed in 1933 and survived the demolition of the surrounding houses when neighbouring Image was built in the 1970s though eventually closed in 2015. See http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume16/source/jg_16_050.html for a view of the hall taken in 1973.

A residential road linking Boundary Road, the B2194, to Olive Road running parallel with the railway to the south. Prior to that it was an open field called Barn Field according to Aldrington's 1840 tithe map. Part of the Hallyburton Estate that built in 1925 with the roads named after both the landowner and his and the builder's daughters.

Small dead end residential road running south off Portland Road.

Originally built as offices in the 1970s and for many years home to the local VAT inspectors. These moved out in 2009 and the block continued to be used commercially until 2012. Deemed obsolete for modern office use the block was converted into luxury apartments in 2015, see also Image The block occupies part of the site of Aldrington Farm which was built sometime in the first third of the 19th century. This was demolished in the 1880s and replaced by an ice factory and later became part of the site of an engineering works before that closed in the 1970s and the site was acquired by Seeboard who demolished the factory and replaced it with offices, see Image

Once a small field called Bridge Croft, according to Aldrington's 1840 tithe map, that was squeezed between the railway to the north and the former Aldrington Farm to the south and named after a nearby railway bridge. In 1914 a factory was built here and operated by HJ Green & Co, the dessert makers, who stayed until moving north to Rotherham in 1978. Consequently, the old buildings were demolished and replaced by these business units.