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Gower Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 4PN

Residential street linking Ashenground Road to Haywards Road developed during the first decade of the 20th century.

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.

Developed as lower class housing in the 1880s and running from Ashenground Road in the south to Haywards Road to the north with a spur eastwards to Sussex road, see Image

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.

The road runs from Ashenground Road in the south to Haywards Road to the north with a third part heading east to Sussex Road. This is part of the latter with a new development on the left and Stockwell Court, the block of flats, to the right which was built in the early 1970s.

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.

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.

The road existed before the houses heading west towards Ashenground Wood which was built in the 1960s. The road itself was developed intermittently, the first houses on the left appearing in the first decade of the 20th century.