Gipps Farm TA 84

Gipps Farm is T-shaped in plan the elevations being a mixture of regular square panel framing and tile hanging, beneath a tiled roof which is half-hipped at each end. The main chimney stack is roughly central and there is an external stack to the northern (rear) wing. On the southern elevation the framing shows evidence of eaves level change between the central bays and the rest of the house.

The two central bays remain from the earliest building on the site, probably 16th century in date, which had lower eaves and ties and may have extended another bay to the east. The additions on the east and west were made with higher posts and ties and a considerable chimney stack. These could be dated in the early 17th century. The northern wing was added later still, probably at the end of the century.

Farm Buildings
There is large brick barn with a tiled and half-hipped roof parallel to and south of the house forming the other side of the yard.

These notes have been compiled from survey reports prepared by Dr Annabelle Hughes. The original reports have been deposited in the Sussex Archaeological Society Library, Barbican House, Lewes, where they can be consulted by researchers.

Gipps Farm, c1910
Reproduced by kind permission of Mike Green

Tithe Data

House & Yard
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1841 Census

Tenement Analysis

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