The History of 1 Sussex Square
ground floor plan made 2015
The ‘corner’ sites on the Estate were always a tricky building conundrum because of their wedge shape. Matthias Wilks, having acquired the carcass from Kemp at 4,000 square foot, proceeded to extend the buildings, on the land behind, to enclose a further 6,000 square foot making the property one of the biggest on the Estate.
No 1 Sussex Square together with No 2 became a school in 1846 belonging to Miss Bridges. Horatio Goulty and his family owned it and also ran it as a school until 1889. Thereafter the property became purely residential and owned by Houghton Lambert Esq, physician and surgeon and others until 1914. In 1918/19 the property is recorded as having been ‘The Herbert Samuel Hospital for Officers’ - see Street Directories for more information.
