Southdown House is a

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, England. It is a

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house made out of brick and

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, and is now situated at 51 Old London Road.

History

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

. The house is in the largest cluster of eighteenth century buildings in

. The two-storey house was built out of brick and

, 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 the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

. 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

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during the

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. The house was later owned by a man named Eric Poore, who died in 1953; at the time, the estate was valued at £30,104. The house became a

in 1952, and a late nineteenth or early twentieth century lamppost outside the property was listed as a Grade II listed building in 1999.

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