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La Casa Blanca, 13 Elmstead Road

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	Built in 1929 and named The Close until the c1990s. It is a rare survivor of the Colonial Spanish style popular in England and the United States of America (particularly Florida and California) in the 1920s. It is a substantial two-storey villa with a hipped clay pantile roof, white smooth rendered walls and chimneys, . The principal (south-facing) five-bay garden elevation has multi-paned windows with green shutters on the arched ground floor windows (sadly those to the first floor windows have been lost in recent years) and an elegant balcony over the ground floor centre window. The two bay west elevation faces the sunken garden and the east elevation faces the road with Spanish-style ironwork over the three slit-windows and an arched front entrance (the shutters at first floor level survive on this façade). The property is enclosed with white rendered walls surmounted by beautiful honey-brown ceramic tiles, highly ornate iron Spanish style gates lead into the front courtyard and side passage.		Built in 1929 and named The Close until the c1990s. It is a rare survivor of the Colonial Spanish style popular in England and the United States of America (particularly Florida and California) in the 1920s. It is a substantial two-storey villa with a hipped clay pantile roof, white smooth rendered walls and chimneys. The principal (south-facing) five-bay garden elevation has multi-paned windows with green shutters on the arched ground floor windows (sadly those to the first floor windows have been lost in recent years) and an elegant balcony over the ground floor centre window. The two bay west elevation faces the sunken garden and the east elevation faces the road with Spanish-style ironwork over the three slit-windows and an arched front entrance (the shutters at first floor level survive on this façade). The property is enclosed with white rendered walls surmounted by beautiful honey-brown ceramic tiles, highly ornate iron Spanish style gates lead into the front courtyard and side passage.

	The house was designed, most unusually by its first occupier Mr Charles Crofton Black, a barrister and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in the City of London. Educated at Chigwell public school and Emmanuel College Cambridge he was called to the bar at the age of 23. He was an advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Land Taxation, legal advisor to the Land Union and author of several works on land and agriculture. He showed a keen interest in the development of Bexhill until his early death aged only 56 in 1937.		The house was designed, most unusually by its first occupier Mr Charles Crofton Black, a barrister and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in the City of London. Educated at Chigwell public school and Emmanuel College Cambridge he was called to the bar at the age of 23. He was an advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Land Taxation, legal advisor to the Land Union and author of several works on land and agriculture. He showed a keen interest in the development of Bexhill until his early death aged only 56 in 1937.<ref>Bexhill-on-Sea Observer - Saturday 30 January 1937, page 2</ref>
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Bexhill Hospital, Holliers Hill

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	The hospital was designed by the Bexhill architect JE Maynard (who also designed the Grade II listed Saxons at 58 South Cliff in Collington) advised by the accomplished architectural practice and hospital building design specialists Adams, Holden & Pearson in an elegant neo Georgian style. Its construction was funded by a successful appeal for donations from the people of Bexhill. It was expanded over the years, having a 62 bed capacity by 1939, a three-storey nurses home in the grounds to the south which was completed in 1934 (in the same neo Georgian style) and a flat-roofed outpatients department at the northern end of the site opened in 1938.		The hospital was designed by the Bexhill architect JE Maynard (who also designed the Grade II listed Saxons at 58 South Cliff in Collington) advised by the accomplished architectural practice and hospital building design specialists Adams, Holden & Pearson in an elegant neo Georgian style. Its construction was funded by a successful appeal for donations from the people of Bexhill. It was expanded over the years, having a 62 bed capacity by 1939, a three-storey nurses home in the grounds to the south which was completed in 1934 (in the same neo Georgian style) and a flat-roofed outpatients department at the northern end of the site opened in 1938.

	It has an H-plan - the ends of the wings were originally open verandas for patients to be wheeled out in their beds for fresh air and sunshine. The elevations are of dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings in the Georgian manner, as are the multi-paned sash windows. The hipped red-tile roofs are crowned by tall chimney stacks and at the centre of the composition above the original main entrance is a copper-clad cupola with clock and very fine weathervane.		It has an H-plan - the ends of the wings were originally open verandas for patients to be wheeled out in their beds for fresh air and sunshine. The elevations are of dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings in the Georgian manner, as are the multi-paned sash windows. The hipped red-tile roofs are crowned by tall chimney stacks and at the centre of the composition above the original main entrance is a copper-clad cupola with clock and very fine weathervane. The clock was erected in memory of Charles Anson who was a cousin of King George V. Anson was considered Bexhill hospital’s 'founding father' and his wife ceremonially started the clock in October 1934.

	The nurses home is now the Community Health Centre and is included in the local listing designation.		The nurses home is now the Community Health Centre and is included in the local listing designation.
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San Mirail, 13 Richmond Avenue

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La Casa Blanca, 13 Elmstead Road

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	The house was designed, most unusually by its first occupier Mr Charles Crofton Black, a barrister and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in the City of London. Educated at Chigwell public school and Emmanuel College Cambridge he was called to the bar at the age of 23. He was an advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Land Taxation, legal advisor to the Land Union and author of several works on land and agriculture. He showed a keen interest in the development of Bexhill until his early death aged only 56 in 1937.		The house was designed, most unusually by its first occupier Mr Charles Crofton Black, a barrister and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in the City of London. Educated at Chigwell public school and Emmanuel College Cambridge he was called to the bar at the age of 23. He was an advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Land Taxation, legal advisor to the Land Union and author of several works on land and agriculture. He showed a keen interest in the development of Bexhill until his early death aged only 56 in 1937.
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Bexhill Hospital, Holliers Hill

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	It has an H-plan - the ends of the wings were originally open verandas for patients to be wheeled out in their beds for fresh air and sunshine. The elevations are of dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings in the Georgian manner, as are the multi-paned sash windows. The hipped red-tile roofs are crowned by tall chimney stacks and at the centre of the composition above the original main entrance is a copper-clad cupola with clock and very fine weathervane.		It has an H-plan - the ends of the wings were originally open verandas for patients to be wheeled out in their beds for fresh air and sunshine. The elevations are of dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings in the Georgian manner, as are the multi-paned sash windows. The hipped red-tile roofs are crowned by tall chimney stacks and at the centre of the composition above the original main entrance is a copper-clad cupola with clock and very fine weathervane.

	The nurses home is now the ~~Bexhill~~ Health Centre and is included in the local listing designation.		The nurses home is now the Community Health Centre and is included in the local listing designation.

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San Mirail, 13 Richmond Avenue

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	Architect JE Maynard, built ~~in 1936~~. Maynard designed another house ~~400ms~~ away at No.58 South Cliff (Saxons) ~~also~~ built in 1935 which was listed Grade II by English Heritage in 1998<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1376151?section=official-list-entry Historic England: 58, ~~SOUTH CLIFF~~]</ref>.		Architect JE Maynard, built c1928. Maynard designed another house 400m away at No.58 South Cliff (Saxons) built in 1935 which is in the very different modern-movement style. It was listed Grade II by English Heritage in 1998<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1376151?section=official-list-entry Historic England: 58, South Cliff]</ref>.

	~~A well preserved and beautifully crafted pair~~ of ~~semi~~-~~detached Edwardian houses built soon after the road was laid out~~ in ~~1905. They have prominent half-timbered gables above double-height bay windows~~, ~~fine~~ red clay ~~tile~~-~~hung upper elevations~~, ~~smaller half-timbered gables over the recessed porches and timber sash windows~~.		San Mirail is one of only a few precious remaining Spanish-inspired villas in Bexhill (see also [[La Casa Blanca, 13 Elmstead Road]] and [[Cordova, 63 South Cliff]]) and is a very good example of this genre with roundel turrets and a red clay pantile roof. The five bedroom residence has five bedrooms, a grand galleried reception hall, drawing room, dining room and sun terraces to the rear. The villa is set within nearly 0.3 acres of Mediterranean-inspired, south facing gardens.

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La Casa Blanca, 13 Elmstead Road

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	~~La Casa Blanca on Elmstead Road was built~~ in 1929 and named The Close until the c1990s. It is a rare survivor of the Colonial Spanish style popular in England and the United States of America (particularly Florida and California) in the 1920s. It is a substantial two-storey villa with a hipped clay pantile roof, white smooth rendered walls and chimneys, . The principal (south-facing) five-bay garden elevation has multi-paned windows with green shutters on the arched ground floor windows (sadly those to the first floor windows have been lost in recent years) and an elegant balcony over the ground floor centre window. The two bay west elevation faces the sunken garden and the east elevation faces the road with Spanish-style ironwork over the three slit-windows and an arched front entrance (the shutters at first floor level survive on this façade). The property is enclosed with white rendered walls surmounted by beautiful honey-brown ceramic tiles, highly ornate iron Spanish style gates lead into the front courtyard and side passage.		Built in 1929 and named The Close until the c1990s. It is a rare survivor of the Colonial Spanish style popular in England and the United States of America (particularly Florida and California) in the 1920s. It is a substantial two-storey villa with a hipped clay pantile roof, white smooth rendered walls and chimneys, . The principal (south-facing) five-bay garden elevation has multi-paned windows with green shutters on the arched ground floor windows (sadly those to the first floor windows have been lost in recent years) and an elegant balcony over the ground floor centre window. The two bay west elevation faces the sunken garden and the east elevation faces the road with Spanish-style ironwork over the three slit-windows and an arched front entrance (the shutters at first floor level survive on this façade). The property is enclosed with white rendered walls surmounted by beautiful honey-brown ceramic tiles, highly ornate iron Spanish style gates lead into the front courtyard and side passage.

	The house was designed, most unusually by its first occupier Mr Charles Crofton Black, a barrister and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in the City of London. Educated at Chigwell public school and Emmanuel College Cambridge he was called to the bar at the age of 23. He was an advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Land Taxation, legal advisor to the Land Union and author of several works on land and agriculture. He ~~played an important role~~ in the development of ~~the town~~ until his early death aged only 56 in 1937.		The house was designed, most unusually by its first occupier Mr Charles Crofton Black, a barrister and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in the City of London. Educated at Chigwell public school and Emmanuel College Cambridge he was called to the bar at the age of 23. He was an advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Land Taxation, legal advisor to the Land Union and author of several works on land and agriculture. He showed a keen interest in the development of Bexhill until his early death aged only 56 in 1937.
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La Casa Blanca, 13 Elmstead Road

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La Casa Blanca on Elmstead Road was built in 1929 and named The Close until the c1990s. It is a rare survivor of the Colonial Spanish style popular in England and the United States of America (particularly Florida and California) in the 1920s. It is a substantial two-storey villa with a hipped clay pantile roof, white smooth rendered walls and chimneys, . The principal (south-facing) five-bay garden elevation has multi-paned windows with green shutters on the arched ground floor windows (sadly those to the first floor windows have been lost in recent years) and an elegant balcony over the ground floor centre window. The two bay west elevation faces the sunken garden and the east elevation faces the road with Spanish-style ironwork over the three slit-windows and an arched front entrance (the shutters at first floor level survive on this façade). The property is enclosed with white rendered walls surmounted by beautiful honey-brown ceramic tiles, highly ornate iron Spanish style gates lead into the front courtyard and side passage.

The house was designed, most unusually by its first occupier Mr Charles Crofton Black, a barrister and liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights in the City of London. Educated at Chigwell public school and Emmanuel College Cambridge he was called to the bar at the age of 23. He was an advisor to the Parliamentary Committee on Land Taxation, legal advisor to the Land Union and author of several works on land and agriculture. He played an important role in the development of the town until his early death aged only 56 in 1937.