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Here’s a nice old photo capturing the grand houses on King’s Gap. The Green Lodge is just out of shot and I guess the photographer was pretty-much stood outside the properties that were demolished in 2007.
I think all of these properties have been converted to flats now, but they must have been large, grand houses when first built.
Here’s what that view (google streetview) looks like today, with trees being the immediately obvious addition:
We live in the top two floors of the house with the windows in the turret , do you know what year
they were built ?
I don’t know when they were built but I know a lady who is now 90 and in 1937 her family stayed there after moving to the area whilst looking for a property to buy. One of the turreted rooms was her bedroom.
We lived in the turreted house of the same design as the third pair in this photo but in Curzon Road opposite the junction with Cromer Road. My understanding is they were all built in the early 1900s prior to WW1. I have a map from 1908-09 which shows these houses in The King’s Gap and the ones immediately to their rear fronting Curzon Road. However, on the other side of Curzon Road only The Heys (1, Curzon Road and formerly the home of the Christian Jones’s, a well known local family) and Dalston (#13, formerly the home of the Youngs) by the beach are shown. Dalston is the oldest house in Curzon Road and it and The Heys were, I believe, both occupied by the same families from being built at least until the 1970s.