hove workhouse by george pickett 22 November 2004i have a postcard of supposedley hove workhouse . nothing to say where it was it looks rural. help please.10 replies Re: hove workhouse by Alan Hobden 23 November 2004The following website lists workhouses in Sussex, but I can’t see anything for Hove.www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/sussex/sussex.htm Re: Hove workhouse by Patricia Overs. 23 November 2004There was a hotel on Hove Seafront, just west of Hove Street. grey as I remember, (It was a long time ago,and I’ve been away from Hove for nearly 40 yrs.) I seem to recall a front porch at street level, and not too far from the bandstand. My Grandmother told us this had been the original workhouse,but converted a while before the war. Re: Hove workhouse by Geoff 26 November 2004I moved to Vallance Gardens in 1957 & remember the grey building, but I was told that it was a nurses home. Perhaps someone could search the local directories: I can’t as I am in France at the moment. Re: Hove workhouse by Patricia Overs 27 November 2004Hi Geoff, I don’t think we are talking about the same building. The one I recall was on the Front, not too far west of Hove Street. I believe the one you are refering to was even further west. There was a large house, completely enclosed by a grey stone wall, and thus a bit of a mystery. We thought it was the property of a very wealthy person. I believe it was sold, and became a Nurses Home, not sure when but sometime in the 50’s I suspect. I was wondering about this building recently, and about to contact a cousin still living in Hove , to try to find the answer. I have a vague memory of the front wall being curved. The Work-house was several stories high, in contrast to the other house. I believe it was close to a private school called Hove College? I wonder it that is still functional? Patricia Re: hove workhouse by Patricia Overs 27 November 2004George, You have gotten my curiosity going! Could you possibly post the pic you have, and see if it rings any bells in my brain? Looking at some of the pics on the Site, that end of town would likely have been largely undeveloped when the Workhouse was first built. The Grandmother who told me about it was born in the 1870’s. Re: hove workhouse by Bazza 27 November 2004This is the masons nursing home, I have been in there Re: Hove workhouse by Geoff 28 November 2004Hi Patricia! We were talking about different buildings. I have just found out that the big grey one surrounded by a stone wall, No.157 Kingsway, (the one I was talking about) was completed in 1937 for Stuart Millar a film director, & designed by Robert F. Crombie, one of the best known British cinema architects. It was sold in 1946 & bought by Hove Hospital for £40,000, whence it became a nurses home. After a somewhat chequered career, the house was converted into a 40 bed home providing residential & nursing care, and run by the Department of health & the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution. It was opened on 3 December 1966 by the Duke of Kent. Unfortunately, I could not find anything out about a workhouse. I should have thought that the residents of Hove would have been sent to the Brighton workhouse. Geoff Re: hove workhouse by Bazza 2 December 2004As a workman – not as a inmate I might add Re: Hove workhouse by george pickett 15 January 2005hi pat large houseon front is now masonic home sick elderly or sheltered Re: hove workhouse by Roy Grant 14 February 2008To my knowledge there was never a workhouse in Hove. For administration purposes (births, marriages, deaths and poor relief) Hove always came under the district of Steyning and the nearest Workhouse for that district was at what is now Southlands Hospital on the Southwick / Shoreham border. 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