Although the house has been altered and a shopfront inserted, it is still in residential use, and has been listed at Grade II* by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance.

[1] When the Wildses moved from nearby Lewes to Brighton in about 1814,[2] the latter's transformation from small, declining fishing village to fashionable, high-class seaside and leisure resort had already started; but the three architects jointly and individually led the town through its period of greatest success, when they established their trademark Regency architectural style in a succession of major residential developments.

[3] They designed a wide variety of religious and secular buildings of all types as well, and Amon Henry Wilds was also involved in engineering projects.

[5] In 1827, he was commissioned to build a mansion for Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet, on the south side of Western Road—the main route from Brighton to the Brunswick Town estate and Hove.

[8] Wilds placed a leaded onion dome on the northwest corner (and inserted a bathroom shaped like an igloo);[6] minarets, Oriental-style windows and various Hindoo-style details predominate elsewhere.

The large leaded (now painted)[7] onion dome is an Orientalist touch; the repeated cusped-headed arches on the exterior are of Indo-Saracenic origin;[9] and there are small minarets of the Hindoo type.