9 Pool Valley, Brighton
9 Pool Valley | |
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Location | 9 Pool Valley, Brighton BN1 1NJ, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 50°49′13″N 0°08′19″W / 50.8202°N 0.1385°W |
Built | 1794 |
Built for | Possibly Streeter family |
Architect | Unknown |
Architectural style(s) | Vernacular |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | No. 9 and attached walls and light standard to rear, Pool Valley |
Designated | 13 October 1952 |
Reference no. | 1380721 |
9 Pool Valley is a late 18th-century house and shop in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built as a bakery and shop for a local family, with two floors of living accommodation above, it later passed to another Brighton family who kept up the baking tradition until the mid-20th century. Since then it has had various commercial uses. Described as "one of the most famous surviving early buildings" in Brighton and "a charming relic",[1] the exterior is clad in distinctive black glazed mathematical tiles. English Heritage has listed it at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance.
History
Brighton is situated on the
Pool Valley connected the south end of Old Steine and the seafront. Old Steine (or The Steine) was the name now given to the marshy valley bottom previously used by fishermen drying their nets, and for the growing of hemp: it had been drained, and by 1790 it formed the focal point of the growing town of Brighton.[2] Houses and entertainment venues surrounded it and faced the grass, which was used for promenading;[5] railings were built around the land; and the fishermen were evicted.[6]
As soon as the new road opened, buildings were built on both sides.[3] The structure at number 9, on the northwest side of the street, was built for both commercial and residential use: the ground floor was used as a bakery, and there were two floors of accommodation above. It may have been built for the Streeters, a local family who were involved in the baking trade.[7] In 1845, the business was run as a bakery and shop by Sarah Streeter.[7] The Cowley family, long established in Brighton, took over at some point before the 1861 Census, after which the business became known as Cowley's Bun Shop and, later, Ye Olde Bunn Shoppe.[3][7] Around the middle of the 20th century, the building passed out of the Cowley family's ownership, and the ground-floor shop unit was converted to other commercial uses such as a restaurant.[4]
The building was listed at Grade II* on 13 October 1952.[8] Such buildings are defined as being "particularly important ... [and] of more than special interest".[9] As of February 2001, it was one of 70 Grade II*-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove.[10]
Architecture
The building is one of the oldest surviving houses in Brighton,
The top two floors are laid with black glazed
Notes
- ^ a b Carder 1990, §201.
- ^ a b Carder 1990, §114.
- ^ a b c d e f Antram & Morrice 2008, p. 71.
- ^ a b c Carder 1990, §125.
- ^ Antram & Morrice 2008, p. 82.
- ^ Gilbert 1975, p. 95.
- ^ a b c "Ye Olde Bunn Shoppe". Brighton and Beyond: A History of the Cowley Family. Peter Cowley. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
- ^ a b c d Historic England (2007). "No. 9 and attached walls and light standard to rear, Pool Valley (north side), Brighton (1380721)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
- ^ "Listed Buildings". English Heritage. 2010. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ "Images of England – Statistics by County (East Sussex)". Images of England. English Heritage. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ a b c Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 446.
- ^ Musgrave 1981, p. 101.
- ^ Antram & Morrice 2008, p. 26.
Bibliography
- Antram, Nicholas; Morrice, Richard (2008). Brighton and Hove. Pevsner Architectural Guides. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12661-7.
- Carder, Timothy (1990). The Encyclopaedia of Brighton. Lewes: East Sussex County Libraries. ISBN 0-86147-315-9.
- Gilbert, Edmund M. (1975) [1954]. Brighton: Old Ocean's Bauble. Hassocks: Flare Books. ISBN 0-901759-39-2.
- Musgrave, Clifford (1981). Life in Brighton. Rochester: Rochester Press. ISBN 0-571-09285-3.
- ISBN 0-14-071028-0.