A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



timber and flint) ; Horsham, near the church ; and Midhurst, near the 

 church. One or two of the Lewes houses are probably as old, such as 

 'Anne of ClevesV house (the porch, dated 1599, is a later addition), a half- 

 timber house hard by, and a gabled building in the High Street. Fifteenth- 

 century inns remain at Alfriston (the 'Star'), Ticehurst, and the 'Mermaid,' 

 Rye. Doubtless many others are as old, or older. 



Houses of the larger type of early sixteenth-century date are well 

 represented by such fine examples as, Brede Place, a brick, stone, and half- 

 timber house of very picturesque appearance, retaining its chapel and many 

 original fittings, largely of early sixteenth-century date ; Cakeham Tower, 

 West Wittering, a lofty embattled structure of brick, built by Bishop Sher- 

 born, c. 1510, for the sea view. A ground apartment is supposed to have 

 been the chapel, otherwise the rest of the palace has disappeared ; Laughton 

 Place, the ancient seat of the Pelhams (built 1534), a fine piece of brickwork, 

 with a rich machicolated cornice and other ornaments to the tower in terra- 

 cotta ; and another ancient building called the granary at an angle of the 

 surrounding moat ; Halland Park, in the same neighbourhood ; Isfield Place, 

 the house of the Shurleys, inclosed with a stone wall, having a tower at each 

 end ; Firle Place (rear portion) ; Frog Firle, near Alfriston ; Chiddingly 

 Place, of various dates in the sixteenth century ; New Place, Pulborough ; 

 Hangleton Manor House ; New Place, Angmering, the house of the Palmers 

 (slight remains) ; Boreham Street, remains of a mansion of the Colbrands ; 

 Haremere, near Etchingham; and last, but by no means least, the famous 

 Cowdray, half castle, half manor-house, originally the seat of the Bohuns, and 

 rebuilt about 1530 by the earl of Southampton, who, however, probably 

 incorporated parts of the late fifteenth-century house (such as the kitchen 

 tower) in his scheme. The semi-fortified gate-tower (the house is moated), 

 the double-storied bay window of sixty lights in the banqueting hall, and the 

 traceried windows adjoining (of similar character to those in the octagon-ended 

 chapel), the chimneys, and the porch, with its elaborately carved fan-vaulting, 

 are some of the most noteworthy features. A detached building called the 

 guard-house has a fine piece of brick vaulting with stone ribs. 



Of half-timbered houses of the early part of the sixteenth century a good 

 number remain in the towns and dotted about the country lanes and villages, as at 

 Rye, Winchelsea, Hastings, Pevensey, Lewes, Cuckfield, Lindfield, Ditchling, 

 Horsham ('North Chapel' and other examples), Steyning, Bramber, Midhurst, 

 Byworth, and Petworth. Hartfield has a church-house, with a lych-gate under 

 it, dated 1520. Dallington has a typical timber-framed cottage, having 

 wattle and daub filling between the timbers, with a good corner post, overhang- 

 ing upper story, and thatched roof. Sedlescombe, Shoyswell, near Ticehurst, 

 Robertsbridge, Lancing, Easebourne, Albourne (with herring-bone brickwork), 

 Wannock, near Eastbourne, Goring, Climping, Poling, Burpham, Amberley, 

 Thakeham, Pulborough, and Hardham, all present good manor-houses, farm- 

 houses, and cottages of this period and character. An interesting feature of 

 the last half-dozen is that they display a flint and timber construction of a dis- 

 tinctly local character. Fine brick chimneys are found at East Grinstead. 



Late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stone architecture is well 

 represented in the eastern part of the county in houses of all sizes. It may 

 suffice here to mention Wakehurst Place, in Ardingly parish, the seat of the 



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