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Saturday, 4 October 2025
Arch Dog / Naughty Pirates
Studio making dog related sculpture (left) and the Naughty Pirates Gallery (right) at Arch 237, King's Road Arches, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
Friday, 3 October 2025
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Apple Tree Cottage / BN5
Timber-framed building originally from the sixteenth century. The chimney stack is from 1737 according to the inscribed stone. Listed Grade 2. Church Lane, Henfield, Sussex, UK.
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Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The Cat House / BN5
Timber framed, thought to be from the C16, listed Grade 2. The cats under the eaves arrived in the C19. "One of the most photographed and recognizable buildings in Henfield". Church Terrace, Henfield, Sussex, UK.
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Tuesday, 30 September 2025
2 & 3 / Kings Gardens
Builder J.T.Chapell, c.1890, render over brick with terracotta dressings. Grade 2 listed along with numbers 1 and 4 surrounding. King's Gardens, Hove, City of Brighton & Hove.
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Monday, 29 September 2025
Victoria / Grand Avenue
Sculptor: Sir Thomas Brock (1847-1922), bronze statue of Queen Victoria, unveiled 1901. Life-size on marble plinth, Grade 2 listed. Southern end of Grand Avenue, Hove, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Sunday, 28 September 2025
St Peter / Henfield
Anglican parish church thought to be on the site of an AD 770 Saxon church also dedicated to St Peter. Current structure from the C13 to C15, with significant Victorian restorations. Grade 2* listed. Church Lane, Henfield, West Sussex, UK.
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Saturday, 27 September 2025
‘When I Remember Through You’ / 2025
Artist: Grace Schwindt, (b.1979, Offenbach, Germany; lives in London and Sicily). Glazed ceramic and patinated bronze. At the 2025 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.
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Friday, 26 September 2025
‘Life Rings, Fig. 3’ / 2023
Lifebuoy sculpture, cast in steel, by Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, b.1961, Copenhagen, Denmark; Ingar Dragset, b.1969, Trondheim, Norway; live and work in Berlin). At the 2025 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.
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Thursday, 25 September 2025
'Fibredog' / 2025
By Assemble, a London-based collective working at the intersection of art, architecture and social practice. At the 2025 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.
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'Neighbours, 2025' / Detail
Artist: Abdollah Nafisi (b.1982 Tehran, now in UK). At the 2025 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.
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Wednesday, 24 September 2025
‘Unit Terrenum Rosa’ / 2025
Artist: Burçak Bingöl (b.1976, Istanbul). One metre cube of rammed earth sourced from Cappadocia and from the Regent's Park. Embedded with rose-based ceramics. At the 2025 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.
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Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Shelter / Hove Lagoon
One of two shelters at the western end of Hove Lagoon, originally built in 1930 and refurbished about a decade ago. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Monday, 22 September 2025
HDSA club / extension
Architect: Christopher Dodd, 1983. Clubhouse extension in the likeness of a Martello Tower. The Hove Deepsea Angling Club has been at this location since it was formed in 1909. Western Esplanade, Hove, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Sunday, 21 September 2025
St Cosmas & St Damian / BN6
Gothic style reconstruction c.1866 by the Brighton architect E.E.Scott. Later additions include a north aisle, vestry and in 1909 the south porch. Grade 2. Keymer, West Sussex, UK.
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Saturday, 20 September 2025
Aurum / BN3
RDJW Architects for Cayuga Developments, 2022. 52 apartments over 8 storeys on Hove seafront. 189 Kingsway, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Friday, 19 September 2025
Fishergull / Lex's Café
Beach café art by Dan Lish. Kingsway, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Thursday, 18 September 2025
Lifeguard Station / BN3
Lifeguard station at Hove Beach, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Hove Trial Centre / 20250916
Hove Trial Centre, built circa 1971–72 to a modernist design by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners. Lansdowne Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Hove Trial Centre / BN3
Hove Trial Centre, entrance. Built in 1971–72 to a modernist design by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners. Lansdowne Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Friends' Meeting House / BN1
Quaker Meeting House constructed in 1805, with several alterations and extensions in the Victorian era. The Grade 2 listing acknowledges "the understated Classical design which nevertheless reflects Quaker preferences for restrained architecture". Ship Street, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Monday, 15 September 2025
Vegetarian Shoes / Sign
Vegan footwear shop sign at 12 Gardner Street, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Sunday, 14 September 2025
Former Holy Trinity / BN1
Designed by Amon Wilds for Thomas Read Kemp, 1817, although the redesigned Gothic Revival eastern face seen here was by George Somers Clarke Jr. and John T Micklethwaite, 1887. The building is now used as an art gallery. Grade 2 listed. Ship Street, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Saturday, 13 September 2025
The Druids Head / BN1
C16 building made of flint with brick dressings, converted to a public house c.1825. Two storeys, attic with dormers, and a cellar. Grade 2 listed and high on the reported hauntings index. At 9 Brighton Place, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Friday, 12 September 2025
Wings Place / Ditchling
Grade 1 listed late-C16 timber-framed building, partly rebuilt in red brick. 24 West Street, Ditchling, Sussex, UK.
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Thursday, 11 September 2025
Barn / Ditchling Green
Barn, from the 18th century, on the north side of the village green. Lower level of flintwork with red-brick quoins, weather-boarding above and a half-hipped tiled roof. Leased to the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft. Ditchling, Sussex, UK.
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Wednesday, 10 September 2025
The Old Meeting House / BN6
The Old Meeting House (Unitarian) to the right was built in 1740, the adjoining tile-hung house was built in 1672. Both are Grade 2 listed. "Our free-thinking faith community has been a part of Ditchling life since the early 1700s". Viewed from The Twitten, Ditchling, Sussex, UK.
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Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Brewers / BN6
At 11 East End Lane, "probably C17" according to the Grade 2 listing, although medieval elements "probable early 15th-century date" mentioned in the Ditchling Historic Character Assessment Report. Ditchling, Sussex, UK.
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Monday, 8 September 2025
The Green Welly / BN6
Café at Ditchling's village centre, where South Street, High Street, West Street and Lewes Road converge and form part of a Conservation Area. 1 & 3 High Street are recognised in the local historic assessment as important C18 buildings. Ditchling, Sussex, UK.
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Sunday, 7 September 2025
St Margaret / Ditchling
Parish church probably on the site of an earlier Saxon church, with some tentative claims that fragments of the nave are pre-Conquest. Cruciform plan with a central flint tower and shingled spire. Much of the structure dates from C12 to C14, although major restorations in the Victorian era. Grade 1 listed. Church Lane, Ditchling, Sussex, UK.
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Saturday, 6 September 2025
South (Indian) Gate / BN1
Designed by Thomas Tyrwhitt, 1921, in Gujerati style using Bath stone. Inscribed: "This Gateway is the Gift of India in Commemoration of Her Sons Who Stricken in the Great War Were tended in the Pavilion in 1914 and 1915". Grade 2 listed. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Friday, 5 September 2025
The Sussex Arms / BN1
Public house built in the Georgian era, known as The Spread Eagle until 1816 according to its Grade 2 listing. Several sources mention that this used to be beside a small wharf on an inlet from the sea. East Street, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Thursday, 4 September 2025
Prince Albert / BN1
Grade 2 listed public house and live music venue built c.1845. Here showing the west return on Frederick Place with its 'Icons' mural. At 48 Trafalgar Street, near the railway station, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Wednesday, 3 September 2025
North Laine Music / BN1
Shop selling musical instruments, especially guitars, with Hendrix portrait on exterior first floor. 44 Sydney Street, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Socktopus / BN1
Socktopus sock shop, now occupying part of what used to be the GAK Music Emporium. Corner of Upper Gardner Street and North Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Monday, 1 September 2025
Albion Groyne / 20250826
Built c.1880 incorporating two tunnels that were once used for a sewage and land drain system. The Grade 2 listing says that for a time it served as a coal delivery pier. Repairs c.2020 by Thorne Civil Engineers and the Flint Wall company. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Sunday, 31 August 2025
Saturday, 30 August 2025
Booth Museum / Door
One of the front doors of the Booth Museum of Natural History, established 1874 by Edward Thomas Booth. Described as 'Italian Romanesque' style by the Grade 2 listing, with round-arch voussoirs of red, yellow and black brick. Dyke Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Friday, 29 August 2025
B•O•A•T / Sign
Direction sign for the Brighton Open Air Theatre, attached to rear of the concrete sound wall. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Thursday, 28 August 2025
Open Air Theatre / BN3
Architect: Graeme Hawkins of the Miller Bourne partnership, 2015, with tiered amphitheatre seating for 425 around a thrust stage. The project was conceived by the late Adrian Bunting, on the site of a disused bowling green at Dyke Road park. Brighton Open Air Theatre (B•O•A•T), City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Marrocco's / 2025
Restaurant with residential accommodation above, built 1934 to the design of restaurateur Alfonso Forte (1880-1958). Operated by the Forte family until 1969 when it was bought by the Marroccos. The 'winter garden' glazing was absent from the original build, which better suited the modernist style. The property is included in the Cliftonville Conservation Area. 8 King's Esplanade, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Courteney Gate / 2025
Architects believed to be Coleridge, Jennings and Soimenow, developer Maurice Bloom, completed 1935. Large mansion block of 31 flats in a neo-Georgian & Deco style, facing King's Lawns. Locally listed by the City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Monday, 25 August 2025
Kings House / BN3
Architect: James Knowles, builder J.T.Chappell, 1874, in an Italianate style using yellow stock brick. Some later extensions and restorations. Grade 2 listed. Originally mansion blocks, then the Prince's Hotel. Used by the Royal Navy in WW2 and after it was the HQ of SEEBOARD. Bought and occupied by BHCC in 1996, then sold to property developers in 2017 and now residential once more. Queens Gardens, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Sunday, 24 August 2025
Meeting House / BN1
Architect: Sir Basil Spence, 1966. Non-denominational spiritual space on a circular plan, with concrete blocks inset with stained-glass surrounding the chapel level. Copper-clad conical roof with projecting concrete gutter spouts. Grade 2* listed. University of Sussex, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Saturday, 23 August 2025
Attenborough Centre / 2025
What used to be called 'The Gardner Centre' was designed by Basil Spence and completed in 1969. After a major refurbishment (R H Partnership Architects, 2015) it was renamed in honour of Richard Attenborough, a former chancellor of the university. The brick cylindrical forms enclose a theatre, exhibition space, studio areas, rehearsal spaces and café bar. Grade II* listed. University of Sussex, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Friday, 22 August 2025
Pevensey 1 / Undercroft
Architect: Basil Spence, 1962, Grade 2* listed. Here showing part of the undercroft including one of the segmental arched concrete lintels. University of Sussex, Falmer, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Thursday, 21 August 2025
Arts B / 2025
Architect: Sir Basil Spence, 1966, Grade 2* listed. View over the north courtyard, which has cloisters around three sides. Red brick and shuttered concrete. University of Sussex, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Arts A / 2025
Architect: Sir Basil Spence, 1966. Red brick and shuttered concrete, with an entrance pylon given a spectacular modern interpretation. Grade 2* listed. University of Sussex, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Meeting House / 2025
Architect: Sir Basil Spence, 1966. An inclusive, spiritual space at the heart of the University campus. Circular plan with a copper-clad conical roof. Concrete blocks inset with multi-coloured glazing. Grade 2* listed. University of Sussex, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Monday, 18 August 2025
Pevensey I / 2025
South elevation of the Pevensey maths and sciences building by Basil Spence, 1962. Red brick with bare, board-marked concrete. Grade 2* listed. University of Sussex campus, Falmer, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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