A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



storied porch, with a number of shields of arms, a good panelled door, and 



the date 1611. 



In western Sussex a similar type of small stone house is found, usually 

 the manor-house, in the neighbourhood of Petworth and Horsham, and along 

 the Arun, as at Tillington, Bean Lodge, Petworth, Coates, and Chithurst 

 (mullioned windows, gables, and brick chimneys). The almshouses at Pet- 

 worth, a particularly picturesque building, and some of the Midhurst houses 

 are of the same date and character. The Eagle Inn, Midhurst, has good 

 seventeenth-century stone details. 



In the sea-coast villages, as at Westergate, Eastergate, Climping, Tod- 

 dington, Rustington, Warningcamp, Poling, and East Preston, an interesting 

 local brick and flint style was evolved in the sixteenth and seventeenth 

 centuries, both for the smaller manor-house or farm-house and the cottage. 

 Brick-mullioned windows, crow-stepped gables, and well-designed chimneys, 

 as e.g. at Rustington, Toddington, East Preston, Moor Farm, near Petworth, 



Thakeham, and Ew- 

 hurst, are among their 

 interesting features. 

 Brick stringcourses, 

 gable copings, and 

 four-centred arches to 

 doors, with excellent 

 squared flint-work, are 

 found, as at Climping 

 and Toddington. This 

 style of house con- 

 tinued in use through- 

 out the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth cen- 

 turies, only with a 

 plainer treatment, and 

 often a date-tablet gives 

 the year of erection, as 

 on a Rustington farmhouse (1696). These date-tablets are common, even on 

 cottages. A small house at Crossbush, Arundel, has a pretty plaster shell- 

 hood over the porch. Chalk was in general use as a walling material, but 

 usually faced with flints or sandstone. The old house called Nineveh, in 

 Arundel, was so constructed, and even Parham House is of chalk, faced with 

 stone. In the north-west of the county chalk -rag is used as a facing with 

 brick dressings, for houses of this period. There is a good example of this 

 treatment in the manor-house of the Aylwyns, at Treyford, dated 1612, the 

 cut brickwork in which is very well executed. At Barnham Court there is a 

 good brick house, having curved gables, of about the middle of the seventeenth 

 century. Another of simpler character is found at Rogate. Many of the 

 smaller houses near Midhurst (as at Stedham) are of coursed local sandstone, 

 * galleted ' with flint chips. 



Half-timber work continued to be used throughout the county during 

 the latter part of the sixteenth and the early half of the seventeenth centuries, 

 and numerous farmhouses and cottages, as well as a few mansions, remain. 



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