ROYAL PAVILION, BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, BN1

The Royal Pavilion is a Grade I listed former royal residence.

Beginning in 1787, it was built in three stages as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales. The last stage was built between 1815 and 1822 by the John Nash who redesigned and greatly extended the Pavilion and gave the palace its striking and unique Indo-Islamic exterior with its domes and minarets.

ROYAL CRESCENT, MARINE PARADE, BRIGHTON BN2

Royal Crescent forms a shallow crescent shape of 14 terraced houses on a generally east–west layout behind Marine Parade on Brighton’s seafront.

It was built by a wealthy merchant in the late 18th and early 19th century as a speculative development on the open cliffs east of Brighton. It was the seaside resort's first planned architectural composition and the first built intentionally to face the sea.

Each four-storey house has a common stylistic theme, There is a first-floor veranda with curved metal roofs, cast iron railings and bracketed supports. The whole terrace has a timber-framed façade with brick nogging infill and covered with black glazed mathematical tiles. These were laid in an interlocking pattern to mimic brick, and were frequently used in Brighton in the late 18th century. The glazing produced an iridescent effect which reflected sunlight in a visually pleasing way, and also coped better than bricks with sea-spray and other weathering effects.

|In 1952 English Heritage listed the crescent at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance.

EMBASSY COURT, KING'S ROAD, BRIGHTON BN1

Wells Coates’ Embassy Court, 1935, stands on the border of Brighton and Hove. An L-shaped 12 storey apartment block with a curved corner and strong horizontal banding with almost continuous glazing.

Now grade 2* listed.

HOLD - BOND STREET, BRIGHTON BN1

Early nineteenth century terraced house with original shopfront, grade 2 listed. Now the home to HOLD, an independent lifestyle boutique.

FALMER HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, BRIGHTON BN1

The University of Sussex was the first of seven new or 'utopian' universities built in England after the Second World War. In January 1959 Basil Spence and Partners were commissioned to build Falmer House. This marked the beginning of the first building phase of Spence’s masterplan for the University that was to be undertaken over a period of 15 years.

Falmer House is a brick faced, vault-and-column structure. It is a three storey, square-plan building with an inner courtyard. The inner courtyard is separated from the building by a 15-foot wide moat running around the inside of the quadrangle. Pre-cast concrete vaults cover the ground floor arcade. The upper floor voids, which can be used as roof terraces, were intended for further expansion. Spence used different concrete finishes with the local brickwork to create visual contrast.

Falmer House is now a Grade I listed building.

BRUNSWICK SQUARE, HOVE BN3

Built as a collaborative project between the architect Charles Augustin Busby and the landowner Reverend Thomas Scutt, construction started in 1824 to provide prestigious and sophisticated housing comparable to the distinguished Nash developments in London.

Busby designed the square not as identical units but as a unified series with some individual variations. The facades of the elegant houses were decorated in the popular neo-classical style, changing with the different roof levels on the rising ground but providing a unified theme.

SOUTHERN PAVILION, WORTHING PIER, WEST SUSSEX BN11

Art Deco ‘streamline-style’ Pavilion at the end of the pier, designed by the Borough Architect and opened in 1935.

DE LA WARR PAVILION, BEXHILL-ON-SEA TN40

A seafront public building initiated by the town’s socialist mayor - Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr and designed by architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, leading figures of the modern movement. The programme specified an entertainment hall, restaurant, reading room and lounge to a budget of £80,000

The building was constructed and opened in 1935 and was awarded Grade 1 listed building status in 1986.

After an extensive restoration exercise in 2005 the pavilion reopened as a contemporary arts centre.

SISSINGHURST CASTLE, CRANBROOK, KENT TN17

A red-brick, three-storey Elizabethan Tower (listed grade I) with its two octagonal turrets. The Tower and moat is the only surviving part of the great Elizabethan courtyard house, probably built by Sir John Baker's son Richard, circa  1560-70 on the site of the earlier Baker house and demolished by Sir Horace Mann circa 1800.

The Tower was restored in 1931  by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson. The National Trust took over the whole of Sissinghurst including its garden, farm and buildings in 1967.

SUN HOUSE no. 3, AMERSHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HP7

One of four speculative reinforced concrete houses built against the hillside, designed by architect Aymas D Connell (of Connell and Ward) for Mr C de Peyer.

1934. Grade 2 listed

POLESDEN LACEY, GREAT BOOKHAM, NEAR DORKING, SURREY RH5

Polesden Lacey is a Regency house transformed into an Edwardian mansion by brewery heiress Mrs Ronald Greville.

The first house was built on the site in 1336, and the site has seen many new designs since then. The core house as it is today was originally built in 1821-1823 by Thomas Cubitt, and then transformed into an Edwardian house in 1906 by Mewès & Davis, the architects of the Ritz Hotel, under the instruction of socialite Dame Margaret Greville and her husband Captain Ronald Greville.

It is now owned and run by the National Trust.

APEX DRIVE, FRIMLEY, CAMBERLEY, SURREY GU16

The Apex Drive development (1966) was designed by Lawrence Abbot and built by the Apex Society, founded in 1965, to provide 'affordable housing in Greater London and the Home Counties'. 

The development is made up of eight blocks, each containing four apartments with grey brick exteriors and protruding curved staircases. 

They’re locally listed by Surrey Heath Borough Council as ‘Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest’.

‘BLANDINGS’, WOKING, SURREY GU21

102 MINNIS ROAD, BIRCHINGTON-ON-SEA, KENT CT7

A unique Art Deco house built in 1935 on the north Kent coast. The house has been recently fully renovated both externally and internally by the owners who now run it as a bed and breakfast .

HEREWARD AVENUE, BIRCHINGTON-ON-SEA, KENT CT7

Another unique and beautifully restored Art Deco House on the north Kent coast. It had an identical one to the right of the illustration, but has had a roof added.

EASTGATE HOUSE, ROCHESTER, KENT ME1

Built in 1590, Eastgate House is a Grade I listed 16th century town house and is one of the most impressive and distinctive buildings in Rochester’s historic high street.

MIDDLEBRIDGE STREET, ROMSEY, HAMPSHIRE S051

Early Victorian two storey building, circa 1840, with original shopfront window.

Grade II listed.