St Dunstan's Home, Rottingdean, East Sussex

Photograph taken November 1996 © Copyright Crown copyright.NMR ref: bb96/05598

Many convalescent homes were built in the mid-19th century for those recovering from illness or surgery. St Dunstan's, Rottingdean, was a home for the blind from 1939. Designed by Burnet Tait and Lorne, it is a tour de force of International Modernism.

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Brighton and Hove Rottingdean

Period

1930s (1930 - 1938)

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A young woman seated in a wheelchair at a desk in the living room of a sheltered accommodation flat at Whitby Court on the Holloway Estate in Islington. Whitby Court a purpose built development of low rise accessibly designed flats and houses for disabled people.

St Dunstan's Home, Rottingdean, East Sussex

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