Round Hill Crescent Quiz

Read the article on Round_Hill_Crescent. Then do the following quiz.

1. Around what year were the earliest listed houses on Round Hill Crescent built?

2. What architectural style do the stuccoed, balcony-terraced houses represent?

3. How many distinct groups of houses built in the mid-1860s are identified on Round Hill Crescent?

4. At which end of the street does the road ascend steeply and curve, changing height dramatically?

5. In what year was the street renumbered so that odd numbers were on the north side and even numbers on the south side?

6. Which two roads were shown radiating north from Round Hill Crescent in the original 1865 masterplan?

7. What later name was given to one of those roads (the one that became too steep for horse-drawn vehicles)?

8. Which house number served as the estate office of the Round Hill Estate in 1871?

9. Which house number became a hospital for women and children around 1905–1910?

10. The stucco on the listed houses is lined out to represent which building material?

11. What is the name of the community group that runs the website where this history is posted?

12. Which local planning control introduced more restrictive measures for the area in the year 2000?

13. What occupation, linked to the “school city” character, was common among Round Hill Crescent residents in the late 19th century?

14. Which Elementary Education Act (year) connected to compulsory schooling is referenced in the article?

15. Which architect(s) built the houses at Nos. 68–86 (even side) in July 1879?

16. On the south/east (downhill) side of the street, how many storeys plus basement do the houses typically have?

17. What is the name of the narrow staircase (twitten) created from an abandoned street, mentioned in the article?

18. Which resident at No. 31 acted as Agent to the Conservative Land Society and collector for a water company?

19. Name a house number where laundresses and a laundress’s assistant were recorded in the census data referenced.

20. What type of historic street-lighting feature remains outside No. 62 and at the bottom of the twitten from Wakefield Road?

1. Around 1865.

2. Regency style (the final phase of Brighton’s Regency architecture).

3. Five groups.

4. The south-western end, where the road ascends steeply.

5. 1881.

6. D’Aubigny Road and Lennox Road.

7. Lennox Passage, later known as the “Cats Creep.”

8. No. 31 Round Hill Crescent.

9. No. 101 Round Hill Crescent.

10. Ashlar (the stucco was lined out to imitate ashlar stonework).

11. The Round Hill Society.

12. The Article 4 Direction (introduced in 2000).

13. Teachers, schoolmistresses, and preparatory school staff.

14. The Elementary Education Act of 1880 (the “Mundella Act”).

15. Towner and Denman.

16. Two storeys plus a basement.

17. The “Cats Creep.”

18. John Izard.

19. No. 58 Round Hill Crescent.

20. Nineteenth-century cast iron street lamps.

This page was last updated by Ted on 10-Nov-2025