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Old Shoreham Road, HOVE, BN3 7GS

Built in 1931 as the Knoll School, educating both senior girls and boys, and included an infants block on the northern side. The school was built as a large rectangle with a line of offices dividing the building into two quadrangles, the western side for boys and the eastern one for girls. The growth in population due to the construction of Hangleton estate after the war meant space became a premium with the infants moved to a new site in Stapley Road in 1956, see Image, and the girls to a new campus in 1967 that later became Hove Park School. A large reorganisation of educational establishments in 1979 resulted in Knoll being merged with the mixed Nevill County Secondary and Hove Grammar School for Boys to become Blatchington Mill School. With the other two schools located on adjacent sites, Knoll became superfluous to needs and was sold off. In 1980 it reopened as a business centre, which it remains to this day. The Knoll Estate is located in the former northern portion of the parish of Aldrington which was once three open fields called The Knowle East, The Knowle West and The Knowle North according to its 1840 tithe map. The area was developed by Hove council from 1926 and mostly completed by 1939, the remaining undeveloped part at the northern end of Stapley Road was finished in the late 1940s.

The building was originally Knoll School for Boys which opened in 1931 and closed in 1979 when a series of mergers between four single sex schools and one secondary modern produced two current secondary schools and rendered this building superfluous. Now a number of small business units.

Numbers 368-370 are private houses though the latter looks like it may have been used as a commercial premises before. Number 372 is a Chinese takeaway and 374 a general store which for many years was a local post office. the houses were built in the 1920s.

A resindential road that originally linked Stapley Road to Old Shoreham Road, the former A27, though the latter was blocked when the road was widened in the 1970s. The road was developed in the 1920s. The Knoll Estate is located in the former northern portion of the parish of Aldrington which was once three open fields called The Knowle East, The Knowle West and The Knowle North according to its 1840 tithe map. The area was developed by Hove council from 1926 and mostly completed by 1939, the remaining undeveloped part at the northern end of Stapley Road was finished in the late 1940s.

A block of flats built in the 1960s at the junction with Egmont Road and located to the immediate south of Image The Knoll Estate is located in the former northern portion of the parish of Aldrington which was once three open fields called The Knowle East, The Knowle West and The Knowle North according to its 1840 tithe map. The area was developed by Hove council from 1926 and mostly completed by 1939, the remaining undeveloped part at the northern end of Stapley Road was finished in the late 1940s.

A residential road that originally ran from Hallyburton Road to Old Shoreham Road, then the A27. The northern junction with the latter was closed in the 1970s when the road was widened. Part of the Hallyburton estate which was developed in 1925 between the railway and Old Shoreham Road on a former field called Barn Field, according to Aldrington's 1841 tithe map, with the roads named after a local landowner and both his and the builder's daughters.

The block of flats are located on the eastern side of the road adjacent to the junction Old Shoreham Road, the A270. Originally the site of numbers 1-9 Stapley Road which appear to have been demolished along with houses on Old Shoreham Road when the road was widenedned in the mid 1970s. Flats look like they were built in the 1980s. The Knoll Estate is located in the former northern portion of the parish of Aldrington which was once three open fields called The Knowle East, The Knowle West and The Knowle North according to its 1840 tithe map. The area was developed by Hove council from 1926 and mostly completed by 1939, the remaining undeveloped part at the northern end of Stapley Road was finished in the late 1940s.

Residential road that links Old Shoreham Road, the A270, with Hangleton Road, the A2038.

A residential road that links Hallyburton Road to Olive Road. Part of the Hallyburton estate which was developed in 1925 between the railway and Old Shoreham Road on a former field called Barn Field, according to Aldrington's 1841 tithe map, with the roads named after a local landowner and both his and the builder's daughters.

A converted bungalow on Old Shoreham Road that housed the Aldrington Free Church from 1938 to 2003.