Wykeham Terrace, Brighton
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The terrace from the northwest
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| Location | 1–12 Wykeham Terrace, Dyke Road, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 50°49′29″N 0°08′40″W / 50.8246°N 0.1445°WCoordinates: 50°49′29″N 0°08′40″W / 50.8246°N 0.1445°W |
| Built | 1827–1830 |
| Architect | Amon Henry Wilds (attr.) |
| Architectural style(s) | Tudor-Gothic |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: 1–12 Wykeham Terrace | |
| Designated | 4 July 1969 |
| Reference no. | 1381112 |
 Location within central Brighton
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Wykeham Terrace is a row of 12 early 19th-century houses in central Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The Tudor-Gothic building, attributed to prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds, is built into the hillside below the churchyard of Brighton's ancient parish church. Uses since its completion in 1830 have included a home for former prostitutes and a base for the Territorial Army, but the terrace is now exclusively residential again. Its "charming" architecture is unusual in Brighton, whose 19th-century buildings are predominantly in the Regency style. English Heritage has listed the terrace at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
St Nicholas' Church, Brighton's oldest Christian place of worship and its parish church until 1873, stands on a hill well behind the English Channel coast on which the old fishing village of Brighthelmston developed. French raids during the 16th century damaged or destroyed much of the settlement, and only the church survived unscathed. Decline set in until the mid-18th century, when the good climate, patronage by wealthy, fashionable visitors, better transport and the growth of the sea-bathing and "water cure" fad transformed Brighthelmston into the popular resort of Brighton.
Residential development proceeded rapidly around the core of the fishing village. Amon Henry Wilds, his father Amon Wilds and another architect, Charles Busby, were the most important builders and designers in Brighton's early 19th-century growth period: they worked jointly or individually on dozens of residential, religious and secular buildings and developed Brighton's characteristic Regency style. In 1827, Amon Henry Wilds is believed to have been commissioned to design Wykeham Terrace (although this attribution has not been established definitively). The site, east of the road from central Brighton to Devil's Dyke on the South Downs, was dug into the hillside on which St Nicholas' churchyard stands. The terrace was completed in 1830.
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