A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



century. At Seaford and Lewes we have examples of stone and flint-cobble 

 building, and others at Steyning and Horsham, well deserving careful study. 

 The great house at Petworth has a long stone front of heavy and monotonous 

 design, built in the early part of the eighteenth century, but retaining in its 

 cellars and chapel some fourteenth-century features. Trotton Place has some 

 good late seventeenth-century brickwork. 



Arundel furnishes a good type of the simple brick house of this date (in 

 red and blue bricks), with a well designed cornice, bay windows, and porch. 

 In the same locality, at Ford, is a large brick-and-flint house, built by 

 William Garway, M.P. (c. 1670). It has a good brick chimney, with recessed 

 panels, much squared black flint-work (which contrasts admirably with the 

 narrow red bricks), rooms panelled in cedar and oak, and a handsome staircase 

 with dog-gates. The out-buildings and barns are in the same style. On a 

 much larger scale are the two fine brick houses in Chichester that in West 

 Street erected (probably by Wren) in 1696, and 'Swan House,' in the Pallant, 

 so called after the curious heraldic birds carved in stone and standing on the 

 gate piers. Both houses show much first-class work, internally and externally, 

 especially the former, which has a pedimented central bay, pilasters, and plinth 

 of stone, a rich modillion cornice and very handsome gate-piers. 7 Swan 

 House has good iron gates and railings and a fine screen and staircase. Wool- 

 beding, Bosham, West Hampnett (workhouse, formerly a mansion), Warming- 

 hurst (fine stabling), Steyning, and other West Sussex villages show good 

 examples of this period ; Hailsham vicarage is an excellent brick house, with 

 a good portico ; and Hellingly, also in the eastern division, has a good early 

 eighteenth-century brick house called ' The Broad.' 



Quite excellent work continued to be done throughout the county during 

 the latter half of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, and many 

 of the unpretentious village and small town houses of this period are well 

 worthy of study. Red and blue-grey or black-glazed bricks were used, 

 together with cobble-flints in places near the sea, and there is often a quiet bit 

 of design in a door-head or cornice. The older parts of Chichester, Brighton, 

 Lewes, and Hastings, and villages such as Felpham, Yapton, and Slindon, are 

 storehouses for this kind of work. Lewes has one or two good shop-fronts 

 and house doors of this period. 



Besides thatch, which is used for roofs all over the county, Horsham 

 slabs are employed in West Sussex in houses of every class, together with 

 ordinary tiles. Tiles, plain and variously shaped, were also a good deal used 

 as a hanging for walls, and many old timber-framed houses have been so 

 covered at a date subsequent to the original construction. The ruined 

 rectory house at Treyford is a good example of this treatment. 



The old thick greenish window glass made in the county is occasionally 

 met with in the diamond-paned casements of cottages. 



It remains to mention a few characteristic instances of internal decoration 

 and fittings ; and first the dining room of the bishop's palace, Chichester, the 

 panelled compartments of which were painted by one of the Bernardis. 

 In the ' Queen's Room ' at Amberley Castle is some panelling, finely painted 

 with the queens of antiquity by Theodore Bernardi, c. 1520. 



Tempera paintings must have been fairly common in houses of the 



1 Its sash-windows have unfortunately been replaced by modern mullioned ones. 



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