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Priory Mews, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 4TZ

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.

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.

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 main road through the town is also the A272 (east west road) and has all the usual shops including Woolworths, Boots, Smiths, and Halfords.

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.

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.

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.

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.