Scobells TA753

The older building at Scobells consists of two ranges at right angles. The northern range is hipped on the north elevation with possible slate tile hanging over a brick underbuild. The southern range is a brick build with a rendered south façade with large sash windows under a tiled roof gabled at each end.

The northern range consists of two or possibly three bays of a medieval hall house c1450. Originally it is likely that a further bay extended to the south. The house was altered c1580 to create a smoke hood at the southern end of the range, within a generation or so this was replaced with a solid chimney stack probably serving back to back hearths. In the first half of the 18th century the fourth bay of the early house was replaced by a brick built range with a cellar.

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

Scovells (Scobells) Farm, sale catalogue part Sutton Hall estate, 1969
ESRO ACC 7633

Pump, Scobell's Farm 2007

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