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  • Contents
    • Preamble
      • Hastings as a fashionable resort
      • Jane Austen and Sanditon
      • Acknowledgements
    • Matthew Fagg
      • Fagg at Lydd
      • Fagg and Hackney
      • The site and its purchase
      • Sanditon, and why Exmouth?
      • Date of completion
      • Architect designed?
    • The House that Fagg built
      • Preparing the site
      • The well and the front terrace
      • The house: main structure
      • The roof
      • Original disposition of rooms
      • Overall cost
    • Early modifications
      • Exmouth Cottage
      • Rear extensions
      • The 'ogee' motif
    • Fashionable heyday
      • Rental values
      • Marie-Louise Christophe, Queen of Haiti
      • Fagg as rentier
      • Vincent Francis Rivaz, insurance broker
      • Ownership of the Deudneys
      • The house burgled, 1841
      • Orlando Jones, starch-patentee
      • Anna Cabell
    • Victorian Occupants
      • Victorian Occupants
      • Samuel Gutsell, grocer and town councillor
      • James Hunt, speech therapist to Lewis Carroll
      • George Edward Moulton, wine merchant
      • John Melhuish, druggist, and Mrs Hassell
      • The Maynards and the first Exmouth House School
      • The Willdeys
      • John Bowley, council architect
    • Victorian Alterations
      • Victorian Alterations
      • Embellishments
      • Windows replaced and chimneys extended
      • Rebuilding of the front terrace
    • Miss Hayhurst and Exmouth House School
      • Elizabeth Hayhurst, art needleworker
      • Early history of the school
      • Alice Fearnside's memories
      • The teachers and what they taught
      • The daily routine
      • Prize-givings
      • The disposition of the house
      • The closure of the school, and its traces
    • Mid Twentieth-century Developments
      • Division into flats
      • Occupants to 1974
      • Ernest and Sybil Willett
    • 1991: The Crucial Year
      • The move to Hastings
      • Leafletting
      • Planning application
      • Initial work on the house
      • The rear extension
      • The roof
    • From 1992 to the Present Day
      • 1992: decorating and the garden
      • 1993: Plasterwork, fanlight, French windows and rotten joists
      • 1994: decorating the hall and staircase
      • 1995: kitchen
      • 1996: front bedroom and garden wall
      • 1999: rear bathroom
      • 2001: more decorating
      • 2002: front gulley
      • 2004: restoring the well
      • 2011: rebuilding the chimneys
      • 2012: railings on West Hill
      • 2013-18: decorating
      • 2020: restoration of rear wall
      • Conclusion: overall cost
    • Timeline: Owners and Occupants
  • Timeline
  • Gallery
  • Home
  • Contents
    • Preamble
      • Hastings as a fashionable resort
      • Jane Austen and Sanditon
      • Acknowledgements
    • Matthew Fagg
      • Fagg at Lydd
      • Fagg and Hackney
      • The site and its purchase
      • Sanditon, and why Exmouth?
      • Date of completion
      • Architect designed?
    • The House that Fagg built
      • Preparing the site
      • The well and the front terrace
      • The house: main structure
      • The roof
      • Original disposition of rooms
      • Overall cost
    • Early modifications
      • Exmouth Cottage
      • Rear extensions
      • The 'ogee' motif
    • Fashionable heyday
      • Rental values
      • Marie-Louise Christophe, Queen of Haiti
      • Fagg as rentier
      • Vincent Francis Rivaz, insurance broker
      • Ownership of the Deudneys
      • The house burgled, 1841
      • Orlando Jones, starch-patentee
      • Anna Cabell
    • Victorian Occupants
      • Victorian Occupants
      • Samuel Gutsell, grocer and town councillor
      • James Hunt, speech therapist to Lewis Carroll
      • George Edward Moulton, wine merchant
      • John Melhuish, druggist, and Mrs Hassell
      • The Maynards and the first Exmouth House School
      • The Willdeys
      • John Bowley, council architect
    • Victorian Alterations
      • Victorian Alterations
      • Embellishments
      • Windows replaced and chimneys extended
      • Rebuilding of the front terrace
    • Miss Hayhurst and Exmouth House School
      • Elizabeth Hayhurst, art needleworker
      • Early history of the school
      • Alice Fearnside's memories
      • The teachers and what they taught
      • The daily routine
      • Prize-givings
      • The disposition of the house
      • The closure of the school, and its traces
    • Mid Twentieth-century Developments
      • Division into flats
      • Occupants to 1974
      • Ernest and Sybil Willett
    • 1991: The Crucial Year
      • The move to Hastings
      • Leafletting
      • Planning application
      • Initial work on the house
      • The rear extension
      • The roof
    • From 1992 to the Present Day
      • 1992: decorating and the garden
      • 1993: Plasterwork, fanlight, French windows and rotten joists
      • 1994: decorating the hall and staircase
      • 1995: kitchen
      • 1996: front bedroom and garden wall
      • 1999: rear bathroom
      • 2001: more decorating
      • 2002: front gulley
      • 2004: restoring the well
      • 2011: rebuilding the chimneys
      • 2012: railings on West Hill
      • 2013-18: decorating
      • 2020: restoration of rear wall
      • Conclusion: overall cost
    • Timeline: Owners and Occupants
  • Timeline
  • Gallery

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1 Exmouth House from Exmouth Place

The Outside

1 Staircase

The Inside

19 Exmouth House before the construction of the garage. Photograph taken by Kenneth Gravett, Jan. 19

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