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WINDLESHAM HOUSE - NEW SUSSEX HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN

Windlesham Road

Neighbourhood:
Brunswick
1880
2018

James Gray: The laconic comment “Street in Brighton 1880” suggests that the photographer had little interest in the large house which is the focal point of his picture. This building, almost at the extreme western end of the town, was erected in 1836 for the Reverend Scott Malden, who established here Windlesham School for Boys. The tall trees in the gardens of the Temple and the Vicarage give Victoria Road a very rural appearance. The school remained here until 1913 when it moved to Portslade. jgc_26_184

2018: Windlesham House was built in 1843-44 as a purpose-built school which occupied the building until 1913. In 1918 the building was taken over by the New Sussex Hospital for Women. The hospital closed in 1998 and the building has since been converted to flats known as Temple Heights. The white houses in the middle distance are in the former gardens of The Temple in Dyke Road and were built some 10 or more years after 1880. They face Temple Gardens, not Victoria Road as suggested by James Gray. The most prominent white house has as its address 3 Windlesham Road. In both the old and the new images, the spire of St Michael and All Angels Church in Victoria Road can be glimpsed on the extreme right of the photograph. Part of the gable end of the church can be seen above the trees in the more recent image. (Photographer: Tony Bailey)

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1920s
2018

James Gray: This view, photographed in the 1920s, shows the same building as previous photograph, with its later extension in Windlesham Road. By this time it had become the New Sussex Women’s Hospital, which moved here in 1921 from 4/8 Ditchling Road. There were then no houses on the north side of Windlesham Road. In later years extensive additions to the hospital were built in the gardens fronting York Avenue. jgc_26_185

2018: The hospital closed in 1998 and the building has since been converted to flats known as Temple Heights. Windlesham House was extensively extended and remodelled in the 1930s by the local architectural firm of Clayton & Black. (Photographer: Tony Bailey)

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Historic and Contemporary Images of Brighton and Hove
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