List of conservation areas in Crawley
Conservation areas

List of conservation areas in Crawley

Section Title: Conservation areas
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Name	Image	Area	‹See Tfd› Year	Notes	Refs

Brighton Road	East Street, Brighton Road Conservation Area, Crawley.JPG	Southgate	2009	This area consists of Victorian and Edwardian buildings immediately south of the level crossing where the Arun Valley Line meets the London–Brighton road.

Dyers Almshouses	Dyers' Almshouses, Northgate, Crawley (2).JPG	Northgate	1996	This group of 30 architecturally distinctive almshouses are one of many works by local building firm Longley and Company. Built in three phases between 1939 and 1971, they combine the Arts and Crafts style with elements "reminiscent of rural Dutch cottage[s]".

Forestfield and Shrublands	-	Furnace Green	1996	Architects Phippen Randall Parkes designed these two small and distinctive estates between 1965 and 1971. Shrublands was completed first, in 1968, and its design was based on suggestions made by members of the housing association for which it was built.

Hazelwick Road	107 Hazelwick Road, Three Bridges, Crawley.JPG	Three Bridges	2013	After Three Bridges railway station became a junction in the 1840s, the village of Three Bridges to the east of Crawley grew in importance.

High Street	High Street Conservation Area, Crawley (Looking North).JPG	Town Centre	1986	The High Street and its buildings have been renewed and reconstructed regularly over the centuries, but it has always been of central importance to the town.

Ifield Village	Plough Inn and Cottages in Ifield Village, Crawley.JPG	Ifield	1981	The conservation area covers what was originally the central settlement in the large rural parish of Ifield, around the 13th-century St Margaret's Church (a replacement for a pre-Norman building).

Langley Lane (†)	Ifield Friends Meeting House, Langley Lane, Ifield (March 2013).JPG	Ifield	2013	This long lane, no more than a tree-lined cul-de-sac, was built up from the 15th century and has buildings from that era to the present.

Malthouse Road	Crawley Housing - Victorian Housing in Malthouse Road, Southgate.JPG	Southgate	2013	The building firm James Longley and Company was based in the vicinity of this road, and it was responsible for most of the terraced cottages, semi-detached houses, detached houses and large villas which still characterise it.

St Peter's	St Peter's Church, West Green, Crawley (from East).JPG	West Green	1996	The hamlet of West Green was named by 1532. Housing development in the second half of the 19th century caused it to merge with Crawley town centre to the east, and the growth prompted the opening of the "spacious" sandstone-built St Peter's Church in 1893.

Southgate Neighbourhood Centre	Southgate Parade, Wakehams Drive, Southgate, Crawley.JPG	Southgate	2013	Each New Town neighbourhood centre had the same general set of buildings—a church, pub, shopping parade and a community centre. The planners tried to vary their designs and grouping as much as possible; the mid-1950s shops at Wakehams Drive in Southgate take the form of an arcade with flats above, and St Mary's Church (1958) is a striking concrete and glass Modernist building with a large metal spire and a tunnel-vaulted roof.

Sunnymead Flats	Crawley Housing - Flats in Sunnymead, West Green.JPG	West Green	1997	Inspired by the Festival of Britain in 1951 and some contemporary flats in Stockholm, these six y-shaped blocks of three-storey flats are built of brightly painted rendered concrete and were erected to house the builders who were working on early New Town residential developments.

West Street (†)	West Street, Southgate, Crawley (Looking South).JPG	Southgate	2013	Like the Brighton Road area, of which this proposed conservation area forms a westward extension, West Street developed in the late Victorian era.

Worth	St Nicholas Church, Worth, Crawley.JPG	Worth	1987	The centrepiece of the conservation area, the ancient village and its vast parish is "one of the most powerful of Anglo-Saxon churches", St Nicholas' (pictured).

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Ifield Village was the first conservation area created in 1981.

final_sentence: Ifield Village was the first conservation area created in 1981.