Adur / Railway Bridge

Designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, 1892. Steel plate girder bridge over the river Adur, supported by 6ft-diameter cast-iron cylinders filled with concrete and resting on solid chalk. Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. UK. (CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
 

St Andrew / BN3

Architect: George Basevi, 1834-6, in a Norman revival style, internally incorporating some C13 features from the original late-Norman church. Hove's parish church until 1531 and Grade II* listed. Church Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Flight of the Langoustine / 2026

Sculptor: Pierre Diamantopoulo (b.1952 Egypt, now living and working in Sussex, UK). Four life-size bronze figures and steel grid. Installed on the Hove Plinth on 17 September 2023. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Essex House / Southdown House

Essex House, left, at 8 St Aubyns Gardens, was built in the mid-C20. Southdown house, right, at 7 St Aubyns Gardens is thought to have been built in the 1890s. Eastwards, the rest of the terrace is from the early 1860s. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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King Alfred / 2026

Leisure centre with swimming pools designed by Tom Humble, Borough Surveyor of Hove, c.1938, in a brick modern style typical of lidos of that era. Plans have now been submitted for a new, smaller, rebuild which will release land for high-rise flats. The proposed new facility has been described as "bland, boxy and generic”. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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St Aubyn's Mansions / 2026

Architects: Lainson & Sons, c.1899, in a Renaissance Revival style. The blue plaques record two past residents: 

Dame Clara Butt (1872-1936), contralto recitalist and concert singer.

Vesta Tilley (later Lady de Frece 1864-1952), music hall artiste renowned as a male impersonator. "She first donned boys' clothes in 1870".

St Aubyn's Mansions is a locally listed building. King's Esplanade, City of Brighton & Hove, UK

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Flag Court / SE

Architects: T.P.Bennet & Sons, 1959. Named after the original house on the site. Unlike most Brighton & Hove seafront buildings, this one's plan is at an angle in order to maximise the number of flats with sea views. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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All Over The Sea / III

Work-in-progress on new timber groyne fields. The work will extend the beach by about 25m out to sea, helping to protect the area from flooding and erosion. Kings Esplanade, City of Brighton & Hove.. 

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Adelaide Mansions / BN3

Grade 2 listed, seafront residences designed by local architect Thomas Lainson, 1873. Stucco over brick, in an Italianate style with Doric porches and wrought-iron balconies to 1st and 2nd floors. Kingsway, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Sheridan House / BN3

Seven-storey building including retail, rental offices and basement car parking. In a late-C20 postmodern style, presumably influenced by St Patrick's Church on Cambridge Road. Described in the Brunswick Town CA appraisal as being of "low architectural value". 114-116 Western Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Embassy Court / 2026

Architect: Wells Coates (1895-1958), completed 1936. Grade 2* modernist apartment block with horizontal banded balconies and curved corner. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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i360 / 20260311

Marks Barfield Architects, 2016. A recent report from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy described an "optimism bias" of the projected footfall in the original business plan. The observation tower is now being managed by Nightcap Ltd after BHCC wrote off £51M of debt. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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LCC / LFB

Battersea Fire Station, constructed and opened by the London County Council in 1937. Designed to house 3 fire engines plus their crews and to provide a flat for the station officer. 11 Este Road, London Borough of Wandsworth, UK. 

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197-203 / Battersea Church Rd

"Later development follows historic proportions but has overly contemporary elements and colours" [Battersea Square Conservation Area Appraisal]. London Borough of Wandsworth, UK. 

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Three Standing Figures / 2026

Sculptor: Henry Moore, 1947, carved from Darley Dale stone. Grade 2 listed. Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth UK. 

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120 & 122 High St / BN44

Main building, now faced in white-painted brick, has medieval origins. Hipped roof is covered in Horsham slabs. Grade 2 listed. Steyning, Sussex, UK. 

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124 High St / BN44

Early C19 dwelling finished in red brick and flint on the north wall. Hipped tiled roof with a tall chimney stack. 'Woodbine Cottage' sign over porch. Grade 2 listed. Steyning, Sussex, UK. 

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Arundel Great Court / South

Horden Cherry Lee (HCL) Architects, 2026. New mixed-use development along the River Thames including apartments and a hotel. Finished in Whitbed Portland stone. City of Westminster, London, UK.

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Waterloo Bridge Vista / 2026

 

Looking east from Waterloo Bridge, with St Paul's to left, the City of London financial district, and the Oxo Tower to right. Blackfriars bridge in middle distance. London Borough of Lambeth, UK.

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NT 2026 / II

National theatre by architect Sir Denys Lasdun, opened 1976. Grade 2* listed theatre complex in the brutalist style. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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NT 2026 / I

National theatre by architect Sir Denys Lasdun, opened 1976. Grade 2* listed theatre complex in the brutalist style. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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QEH / 2026

Architects: London County Council then Greater London Council, Department of Architecture, opened 1967. Entrance to the Queen Elizabeth Hall, consisting of an array of six cast-aluminium and glass double-doors, with shuttered béton brut above. At last it's been listed. London Borough of Lambeth.

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St Martin Ludgate / Steeple

Church steeple by Christopher Wren, built 1677-87. English baroque, Portland stone, Grade 1 listed. Ludgate Hill, City of London, UK.

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Square Mile / 20260225

View of the office towers in the City of London, seen from the south bank of the Thames in the London Borough of Southwark. 

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Chequer Inn / BN44

Timber-framed building "probably of medieval date" according to the Grade 2 listing. The Inn itself and Wikipedia state it was a C15 coaching house, believed to date from around 1440. 41 High Street, Steyning, Sussex, UK. 

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61, 63 & 65 High Street / BN44

Grade 2* listed, early C16 timber-framed building with jettied first floor. 61 & 63 currently available to let as retail premises. Steyning High Street, West Sussex, UK. 

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69 High St / BN44

A.k.a The Old Cottage. Medieval timber-framed building on a base of brick, flints and rubble. Said to have once been a forge [Grade 2 listing]. High Street, Steyning, West Sussex, UK. 

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Southover Grange / II

Elizabethan house built 1572 for William Newton, partly using dressed Caen stone from the ruins of Lewes Priory. Now owned by East Sussex County Council. Grade 2* listed. Southover Road, Lewes, Sussex, UK. 

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Southover Grange / I

Elizabethan house built 1572 for William Newton, partly using dressed Caen stone from the ruins of Lewes Priory. Now owned by East Sussex County Council. Grade 2* listed. Southover Road, Lewes, Sussex, UK. 

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Janus Head / (1997)

Sculptor: John Skelton (1923-1999, UK). Installed in Grange Gardens, the gift of Alison & Richard Jolly. Lewes, Sussex. 

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Eastgate Baptist Church / BN7

Original building established on this site in the Victorian era although the tower was modified to its pyramidal form in 1915. The southern, modern extension built in 1970. East Street, Lewes, Sussex, UK.

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Fitzroy House / Turret

Originally the Fitzroy Memorial Library, designed by George Gilbert Scott in neo-Gothic style, 1862. Here showing the clock turret and flèche. Grade 2 listed. High Street, Lewes, Sussex, UK. 

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Harvey's Brewery / BN7

Brewery of the early C19, "almost completely remodelled by William Bradford circa 1881" [Grade 2* listing]. Seen from Cliffe Bridge, Lewes, Sussex, UK. 

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Sea Haze / West

Weatherboard-clad, tent-roofed shellfish bar on Brighton beach. 207 Kings Road Arches, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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SM5 / SM244

Outside The Old Net Loft, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Fortune of War / BN1

Public house established 1882, the oldest directly on Brighton's seafront. Interior décor resembling an upside-down boat. "The fortune of war, I'll tell you plain, is a wooden leg and a golden chain" [Joseph Rodman Drake]. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Shelter Hall / West

Architects: R H Partnership for Brighton & Hove City Council, 2021. Enlarged, £6.5M rebuild of Shelter Hall as part of the regeneration of Brighton seafront. The 1883 kiosk that was above has been listed, restored and re-sited at East Street Bastion. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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All Saints / Lewes

Tower from the early C16, 1806 nave by Amon Wilds, 1883 chancel and transepts by W. Basset Smith and E.J. Munt. Grade 2* listed. Now a community centre managed by the Town Council. Friar’s Walk, Lewes, East Sussex, UK.

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Lion & Lobster / Sign

Sign on a wall of The Lion and Lobster public house at the corner of Sillwood Street and Bedford Place. The pub was previously known as The Olive Branch and The Rockingham. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Hove Courts / 20260211

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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RX118 / Brighton

City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Brighton Museum / South

Indo-Islamic style buildings originally designed by William Porden, 1805, for George, Prince of Wales. Purchased by the local authority in 1850 and in 1873 was adapted by the Borough Surveyor, Philip Lockwood, as a museum. Grade 2* listed. Recent restoration by Donald Insall Associates. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Sussex Heights / NE

Residential high-rise designed by Seiferts, 1968. 26 floors rising 334 feet (102m), Brighton & Hove's tallest building (excluding the i360). Seen here from the northeast. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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Brighton Centre / 20260204

Russell Diplock & Associates for Brighton Borough Council, 1977. Brutalist style music and conference venue. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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'Passacaglia' / Charles Hadcock

Artist: Charles Hadcock (b.1965 England). Large abstract sculpture made from recycled cast iron, 20 tonnes, dated 1998. Plaque says: 'Passacaglia. A Song for the Sea'. Brighton beach, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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The King & Queen / Gable

Architects: Clayton and Black, 1931, in Tudor Revival style. Photo shows a gable detail where "Henry VIII and one of his queens are modelled in coloured plaster either side of a flat-arched window" [source Grade 2 listing]. 3-17 Marlborough Place, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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1 Gloucester Place / BN1

A.k.a. Trustcard House, built in the 1980s, replacing the handsome Telephone House of 1938. Unfortunately, the latter building "was deemed to be structurally unsafe". The replacement is somewhat reminiscent in form. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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ROX / Brighton

Cove Burgess Architects, 2021, for Ktesius Projects. 70 apartments on the site of the old Astoria cinema. Gloucester Place, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Kingswood Flats / BN2

Built 1938 for Brighton Council in a brick modernist style of the interwar period. Named after Sir Kingsley Wood who was then Minister of Health and who played a significant role in the national slum clearance programme. Here viewed from John Street, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Lodge Hill / Vista

View from Lodge Hill towards Wolstonbury Hill, part of the South Downs. The church spire in the middle distance belongs to St Cosmas & St Damian in Keymer. County of Sussex, UK.

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