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All the tenements comprising this small estate appear to have been created when Handlye Common was enclosed in 1574 (23). The core of the house dates from the late 16th century and was almost certainly built on one of the newly enclosed tenements. The barn was constructed about a generation later c1620. Elizabeth, daughter of John and Catherine Olive the Lewes tobacconists who owned this property (but probably never lived here) was married to Thomas Payne the revolutionary. The Olives were religious dissenters and that tradition continued when George Stanford bought the property. George Stanford of Lewes, carpenter, was granted a license to hold a meeting of dissenting Baptists in Barcombe and in the same year he purchased the land for the chapel at Barcombe Cross. The two additional ranges at the house were probably added later, in the 19th century, possibly by Durrant Ade who, like his predecessors was a Lewes businessman, but unlike them, lived for some time at Gallybird Hall. |
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