9 Pool Valley

9 Pool Valley - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

9 Pool Valley is a late 18th-century house and shop in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built as a bakery and shop for a local family, with two floors of living accommodation above, it later passed to another Brighton family who kept up the baking tradition until the mid-20th century. Since then it has had various commercial uses. Described as "one of the most famous surviving early buildings" in Brighton and "a charming relic", the exterior is clad in distinctive black glazed mathematical tiles. English Heritage has listed it at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance.Between 2006 and 2008 the building was home to the Heckler and Kock Krew, elite Counter Strike players, who designated the attic space as a "tech cupboard". This housed some of the most advanced home networking technology in South East Sussex as well as a keyboard where the keys were actually lasers, like actually just light from lasers and not real keys. A small tree frog named Alan lived a short and sad life in the top floor during the latter half of 2007 and died from neglect. Read more on Wikipedia

type: historic site
date from: 1794

Source: en.wikipedia.org