Stanmer

Stanmer village

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

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d) STANMER VILLAGE: The village street is now lined with listed buildings, but the houses of the village were once sited in the paddock opposite the stores where the outlines of the foundations may still be seen. The present houses were erected in the mid eighteenth century as a new estate village by the earls of Chichester; most were severely damaged during the military occupation of the Second World War, but were subsequently restored by the corporation.

At the road junction is the Home Farmhouse, faced in knapped flint and red brick, and with flint farm buildings adjacent. Opposite stands the weather-boarded and flint Long Barn, dating from the eighteenth century or possibly earlier. Nos.1-6, 7-10 (nineteenth century) and 13-16 are all small, knapped-flint cottages, while nos.11-12 were built in 1912 in memory of Lilla, Countess of Chichester, and are not listed. Near the pond and church stands an ancient flint well-house, covered in ivy and with a slate roof. It was rebuilt in 1838 at the same time as the church, incorporating an earlier arch, and houses a thirteen-foot donkey treadmill which dates from the seventeenth century or earlier. The well itself is 252 feet deep and was dug in the sixteenth century. Stanmer pond is surrounded by large sarsen stones, probably giving the village its name which means 'stony pool'. {1,44,228,289,311}

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