Western Pavilion

Spent the weekend exploring my new home city and came across this little gem on a side street.

The Western Pavilion is an exotically designed early 19th-century house in the centre of Brighton incorporating many inventive details while paying homage to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton's most famous and distinctive building. Although the house has been altered and a shopfront inserted, it is still in residential use, and has been listed at Grade II* by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance.

The plaque says:
AMON H. WILDS
BRIGHTON REGENCY ARCHITECT
DESIGNED AND LIVED HERE 1831

He was part of a team of three architects and builders who—working together or independently at different times—were almost solely responsible for a surge in residential construction and development in early 19th-century Brighton, which until then had been a small but increasingly fashionable seaside resort on the East Sussex coast.

In the 1820s, when Wilds, his father Amon Wilds and Charles Busby were at their most active, nearly 4,000 new houses were built, along with many hotels, churches and venues for socialising; most of these still survive, giving Brighton a distinctive Regency-era character, and many are listed buildings.