Bexhill Buildings

 Bexhill’s very first drill hall was, in fact, located behind the Queen’s Head on Belle Hill At around the end of the 19th century, due to the need for men to fight in the South African War, the volunteer movement was expanded and to provide the training facilities needed for the Artillery a new Drill […]

Braggs Farm also known as Fatlands and previously Le Vert, has now gone. The land was claimed for building in the early part of the twentieth century. The roads we know today as Eastwood Road and Holmesdale Road are on the line of the old track which is shown on the farm plan of 1831

This imposing building on the corner of Devonshire Road and Devonshire Square (formerly Station Square) was built as a hotel in 1886. It is of four storeys, brick walling with rendered on the ground floor and window and door surrounds on other floors. An impressive porch was included to the main entrance to Devonshire Road.

The Metropole was the second grandest hotel in Bexhill, after the Sackville Hotel on De La Warr Parade. Work began on the Metropole in 1897 and it was opened in May 1900. Where it stood, the present (2016) putting green (west of the De La Warr Pavilion) now stands. It was a lavishly furnished hotel

The Kursaal was built in 1896 by the 8th Earl De La Warr who, also, provided the finance. It was an entertainment pavilion that included separate reading rooms for ladies and gentlemen. In 1894 the Earl hired Stanislaus Wurm and his White Viennese Band to give concerts on the De La Warr Parade but, when

Bexhill West Station was opened on 1st June, 1902 by the Crowhurst, Sidley & Bexhill Railway Company… It was located on the north side of Terminus Road, to the west of Beeching Road, It was the largest and most imposing of the three station buildings designed by C S Barry & C E Mercer and

With the development of Bexhill’s East Parade, in 1883, Lord Cantelupe, the 8th Earl De La Warr, (one of the two main founders of Bexhill in the late 1880s) laid out this area as leisure gardens to be enjoyed by all. He named it, “Cantelupe Gardens” and the green space, following the fashions of the

The hotel was built in 1901 and, shortly after, the owner applied for a license to sell intoxicating liquor but, for some reason, later this application was withdrawn. The following notice of the intention to apply, appeared in the Bexhill Observer, dated August 3rd 1901 “In the Petty Sessional Division of Hastings” “I, Matilda Emma

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Belle Hill was built in 1825 on land that had previously been part of the Bexhill barracks site; it was extended in 1887. A small building, for use as a Sunday School, was added to the left hand side of the chapel, in 1869 and extended in 1892. A mission

The “Granville” was the last major purpose-built hotel in the town. It was completed in 1902 but didn’t open for business until 1905 because it could not, initially, get a bar license, The reason given for the refusal was that one had been issued to the Central Station and the local authorities felt that the