1899 – Houses, Pevensey Bay, Sussex

“These houses are now being erected close to the sea in Pevensey Bay, near Eastbourne, for Mr. Val. C. Prinsep, R.A.,who has recently acquired a considerable quantity of land in this bracing and sunny bay. The detached house with studio at back is for Mr. Prinsep’s own occupation. All the houses are faced on the ground-floor with red bricks from Tunbridge Wells, and above the ground-floor with hard local stock-bricks, cemented, rough-cast, and whitened. Sea-green Westmoreland slates are to be used for the roofs. .VU external woodwork is to be finished a strong green. All walls are built hollow. The houses have been designed by Mr. Frank J. Brewer, F.R.I.B.A., of Richmond, Surrey, and Buckingham-street, Adelphi, London, and are being erected by Mr. Mark Hookham, builder, of Eastbourne.” Published in The Building News, February 10 1899.