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Horsted Place is a Tudor Revival country house, now a hotel, in Little Horsted, East Sussex, England. The current building dates to 1850, [ 1 ] when it was built by Samuel Daukes / George Myers for Francis Barchard , [ 2 ] a successful merchant from London, though an earlier house evidently existed as it was documented as being owned by the Law family in 1816. [ 3 ]
What makes Horsted tick. The former retreat of the Windsor's, our Victorian Gothic Revival country house lies deep in the Sussex countryside, steeped in history, dating back to 1850. Step beyond the redbrick façade and you enter a world of gilt-framed paintings, roaring fires and even warmer welcomes. Converted into a hotel in the 1980s, it ...
We will not bore you with a monologue of dates and names, but when it comes to history, Horsted Place Hotel has enough to fill a book. Built by George Myers in 1850 for Francis Barchard, it’s one of the finest examples of Gothic revivalist architecture you’ll find in Britain today. That’s down largely to the fact that the detail was ...
May 31, 2024 · View on a map. 7 10 Telegraph expert rating. Former retreat of the Windsors, this austere Gothic Revival house deep in the Sussex countryside has a touch of the Downtons about it. A gnat's whisker ...
- Little Horsted, East Sussex, England View on a map
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- Kitchen Garden
The main entranceto Horsted Place, which also served the previous house on the site, is from the A26, c 280m north of the house. The drive enters through white timber gates, turns sharply south-westwards past the site of the C19 lodge (shown on the Tithe map of 1841 but now gone) and follows a straight course through a belt of woodland to the grave...
Horsted Place (listed grade II) lies c 100m north-west of the main road, on the crest of the ridge, and enjoys extensive views to the south and west. It was built in 1850-2 in the Victorian Gothic style and is notable for its rich pattern of blue brick diapers on a red-brick exterior. The architect was Samuel Whitfield Daukes (1811-80) with George ...
The ornamental gardenslie to the south-east of the house and extend as a belt of woodland shrubbery south-westwards alongside the main road. The present layout was designed by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe in 1966 with planting developed by Lady Rupert Neville. A flagged and shrub-planted terrace enclosed by a pierced, trefoil-pattern balustrade, built wit...
The surviving (1997) areas of parkland lie to the west and south of the house. The area to the south, extending to the northern edge of the kitchen garden, is known now as the Paddock. It is shown on the OS 1st edition with a scatter of parkland trees. None of these survive and the Paddock has recently (mid 1990s) been replanted with several new cl...
The kitchen garden lies 200m to the south-west of the house. It is a rectangular, brick-walled enclosure, measuring c 80m by 60m, with a glasshousebuilt within the garden on the north-west wall and with bothy buildings backing on to it. The garden is shown established on the Tithe map of 1841 and is now (1997), with the glasshouse, used for propaga...
With 17 luxury bedrooms and suites, the mansion house is set in landscaped gardens with extensive views towards the South Downs. The fine dining, AA 2-rosette restaurant offers modern English cuisine with freshly prepared seasonal local ingredients. Located on the edge of Uckfield, just a 10-minute drive from Lewes, a 30-minute drive from ...
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