Southdown House

The exact date of the construction of Southdown House is unknown, however it is believed to have been built in the early eighteenth century, in a cluster of thirteen buildings in Patcham. The house is in the largest cluster of eighteenth century buildings in Brighton and Hove. The two-storey house was built out of brick and flint, and contains five bays. Originally, the house had adjacent stables, which were converted into a house in the twentieth century; that building is now a Grade II listed building. In 1906, the house is recorded as being owned by a Major Howard Vyse Welch, who was a judge at that year's Sussex County Show, and fought in the East Surrey Regiment during the First World…