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Sussex Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 4DZ

Originally a set of cottages built some time during the 1860s possibly for workers who were employed in a nearby brickworks. Their conversion into shops probably came about at the time Sussex Road itself turned from a residential road into a commercial street.

Home to Ecotecture, eco friendly architects. The building seems to date from the early 20th century when Sussex Road was establishing itself as the southern end of the commercial sector of the town.

The Methodists occupied a building here in 1876 and rebuilt it the following year, extending it in 1957. They moved out in 1991 and were replaced by the Baptists.

An ancient highway that once crossed the lonely heath from Lindfield to Ditchling now the B2112. One of the main shopping streets of the town though not the original as the distance between buildings and pavement on both sides implies former gardens. The large building to the left was built in the late 1960s and included a Co-op department store at its base which has long gone. The crane to the right is currently helping to construct new buildings on the site of the former Sussex Hotel built at the crossroads in 1861 and originally known as the Volunteer.

Located between Sussex Gate to the left and Image out of shot to the right. It looks like a former cinema but isn't and was built to replace four 19th century cottages that once stood on this site.

From the late 19th century to at least the end of the 1960s this was the site of a small nursery. Certainly by the early 1970s when I regularly walked along Franklynn Road it had become a car park. Beyond is the former Priory.

One of the earliest roads established in Haywards Heath linking the road to Uckfield with that to Wivelsfield across a small piece of land known as the Triangle. Houses and shops were established in this road by the early 1870s.

Pub located at the junction of Sussex Road, the B2112, and Triangle Road. The building appears on the 1897 OS map but is not marked as a public house until 1910 most likely opened to serve the growing communities to the west and south.

The current development was built about a decade ago on the site of the former Sussex pub which had opened as the Volunteer Inn around 1860. Sussex Square is the name given to the crossroads of the former A272 and B2112 which predated the arrival of the town. The road in view to the right is Sussex Road which heads south to Wivelsfield and Ditchling.

Former Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel established here by the English Convent of Bruges in 1886. The purchase of the Hazelgrove estate behind the building enables the Priory to eventually construct the building which was consecrated in 1897. It remained in use until the late 1970s when the nuns move to Sayers Commons, the grounds were turned into a housing estate and the building itself converted into a bar and restaurant the latter located in the formal chapel which has been largely maintained along with the windows. Taken from the corner of Triangle Road with Sussex Square and South Road in the distance.