Tilbury Place

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Tilbury Place is a large, three floor house, which used to be called St John's Lodge. It was built in 1810 when Edwin and Laetitia Tarner lived in it. Tilbury was Edwin's wife's maiden name. It was willed to Brighton Council in 1933 by the remaining family, and became a charitable nursing home for the poor. It is now a group of listed buildings. At the end of the Place is Prior House, now Brighton Unemployed Centre, but formerly Brighton Girls Club c1936. The garden became the Tarner recreation ground, very few gardens attached to Brighton townhouses retain their original size, in fact very few houses retain their original domicile shape, most being turned into flats, Tilbury Place being no exception. The recreation ground retains the old flint wall that was originally part of Tarner's garden, from where he could look down to the sea, views which have long since disappeared. Tilbury Place is built in the Georgian style.

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Tilbury Place
Georgian house in Brighton