Buildings of special interest

Some of the older village buildings

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990.  As a result, some of the content may not reflect recent research, changes and events.

g) OTHER BUILDINGS: Nos.1-3 Upper Cottages in Ovingdean Road, built in flint but mostly rendered, date from the eighteenth century and are included on the council's local list of buildings of special interest; they were extensively restored in 1976-8.

The Hames, a single-storey flint cottage, stands in Ovingdean Road adjacent to the Olde Barn, a two-storey flint building converted into a residence in 1982-3. Ovingdean Hall Farm has one old knapped-and-squared-flint barn, but new flint houses were built on the farm yard in 1989.

The Village Hall opened in 1986 on the site of the 1932 village club room.

At the junction of Greenways and Beacon Hill are Greenway Cottages, faced in knapped flint with red-brick dressings; they were built in 1892. The St Dunstan's building at Ovingdean Gap actually stands in the former parish of Rottingdean .

Any numerical cross-references in the text above refer to resources in the Sources and Bibliography section of the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder.