Felbridge & District History Group

Lost Property of Felbridge, Pt. 5

Properties on the southern side of Copthorne Road from the Star junction to Crawley Down Road junction and the south side of Crawley Down Road to Sinden Heath

As we steadily advance through the 21^st century and with an extensively accrued Felbridge archive, it is perhaps time to reflect on the lost property of Felbridge, dwellings and structures that have disappeared, some in the lifetime of former and current Felbridge residents and some properties whose mere existence has only become known through researching old documents and maps relating to Felbridge and its surrounding area.

This document is the fifth in a series that aims to catalogue these lost properties and, where known, give a few details about the property and the cause of its loss.  Some of the lost properties we have covered before and have their own handout devoted solely to their history, in which case only a brief synopsis will be supplied here along with any additional information discovered since the publication of the original handout.  Research into other lost properties may produce enough information to create a future handout devoted solely to that property and other lost properties will inevitably prove to have very little surviving information on them, but at least they will have been identified and included in this series of catalogued lost property of Felbridge.  No doubt some lost property will escape our attention altogether or not yet have been revealed through our researches and there are many more recent properties that have been sacrificed for the numerous housing developments in Felbridge and the surrounding area of the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries; this latter category of properties will not be covered in detail unless the lost property was of significant merit. 

Lost properties will be presented by location within the Felbridge area which is made up of the land holdings of the Evelyn estate of the late 1700’s that incorporated the manor of Hedgecourt and their own Felbridge lands (for further information see Handout, The Early History of Hedgecourt, JIC/SJC 11/11) with additions made by the Gatty family after their purchase of the estate in 1856 (for further information see Handout, Charles Henry Gatty, SJC 11/03); the ecclesiastical parish of Felbridge created in 1865 out of parts of the ecclesiastical parishes of Godstone, Horne and Tandridge in Surrey and East Grinstead and Worth in Sussex (for further information see Handout, St John the Divine, Felbridge, SJC 07/02i); and the Civil Parish of Felbridge created in 1953 (for further information see Handout, Civil Parish of Felbridge, SJC 03/03); together with the occasional lost property abutting these areas as part of manorial lands associated with Felbridge.  In all, an area stretching from the Newchapel area in the north across to the Snowhill and Crawley Down area in the west, the north end of East Grinstead Common, North End and Imberhorne manor and its associated holdings in the south and Chartham and the Wiremill area in the east.

Part 1 covered the west side of the north end of East Grinstead Common (ref: JIC/SJC 07/18); Part 2 covered the east side of the north end of Imberhorne Lane (ref: JIC/SJC 07/19); Part 3 covered the west side of the north end of Imberhorne Lane (ref: JIC/SJC 10/21); and Part 4 covered the remainder of the west side of Imberhorne Lane, along the west of main London road (A22) to Felbridge Water on the south side of the County boundary (ref: JIC/SJC 09/22).  Further family details relating to the properties covered in these documents can be found as additional appendices available on request.

This document covers the lost properties on the southern side of Copthorne Road from the Star junction to the Crawley Down Road junction and the south side of Crawley Down Road ending at Sinden Heath.  To-date, at least 29 properties, many with associated outbuildings, have been lost.  Further family details relating to the properties in this document can be found in an additional appendix available on request as an Additional Family Appendix to Lost Property of Felbridge, Pt.5.

Properties on the northern end of a parcel of Mercer’s and Felbridge Common once held by the manor of Imberhorne and Felbridge Park

This area of Felbridge extends north and west of Holdings A (Mercer’s land, held by the manor of Imberhorne) and B (East Grinstead Common held by the Borough of East Grinstead) as identified in the previous lost property document (Lost Properties of Felbridge, Pt. 4, JIC/SJC 09/22), incorporating land on the Sussex side of the county boundary as well as a slither of land on the Surrey side.  The history of the area, because of its geographical location of straddling the county boundaries, being historically in several parishes and held by more than one manor, has proved challenging to unravel.  However, documentary and map evidence show us that the area has constantly been evolving over at least the past 400 years with the construction of a series of buildings, many being repurposed.

For ease of documenting, the lost properties covered below will be classed as part of Holding C, an extension of Holdings A and B from the previous ‘Lost Properties’, incorporating land on both sides of the Sussex/Surrey boundary.

 

[Boundaries of holdings A, B & C on the 1955 OS map.] Contact us to get the illustrated version.

Holding C    

The area was originally part of the common or waste (known variously as East Grinstead Common, Grinstead Down and Felbridge Heath) abutting the manor of Imberhorne, encompassing land in both Sussex and Surrey, bounded on the south by Felbridge Water, the north by what is today known as Copthorne Road and Crawley Down Road and extending west to a track from Crawley Down Road to Imberhorne Farm.  Holding C, formed over several centuries, was part of what became known as Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon and currently encompasses the following recent developments: Felbridge Court, Longwall, Mulberry Gate, Martins Mead/Birches View, nos. 19-35 (odd numbers) Copthorne Road, 1-9 (odd numbers) Crawley Down Road, Beechwood and Sinden Heath.

General history

Much of the general history and development of this holding has been covered in Handouts, Harts Hall, SJC 07/05 and Eating and Drinking Establishments, Pt. 2, SJC/JIC 03/08.  However, since publication more information has come to light and this document gives us an opportunity to include amendments and further findings.  The following outlines the history and development of Holding C from the initial enclosure and construction of a dwelling, through the consolidation of the holding that eventually became known as the ‘Residential Estate of Harts Hall’ and the sale and break-up of this holding as part of the Felbridge Place sale from 1911.

The early history of the Holding C is bound up with the property known as Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (see below).  Unfortunately, this name (and the unaltered description) was used for over 230 years making it difficult to establish the exact dates that structures were built, their changing use or loss within the holding.  For ease of identifying the lost properties of Holding C, they will be summarised after the history of the holding has been established, starting at the Star junction and progressing to the area adjacent to the Crawley Down Road, with identifying (letters) based on the holding as depicted on the 1873 OS map.

The original Harts Hall that lends its name to Holding C stood on the extreme northern end of ‘Grinstead Downe’ (East Grinstead Common).  It does not appear on the Buckhurst Terrier map that was commissioned by Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, as a survey of all his manors, lands and properties held in northeast Sussex in 1597/8.  However, that does not mean that the structure was not standing at this date and, if it was not standing, it was certainly built shortly after.  The original Harts Hall probably takes its name from a member of the Harte/Hart family and the name Hart(e) appears in the local area, on both sides of the county boundary, around the mid 16^th century.  On 9^th April 1559, Henry Harte and John Harte, among others, were fined 2d each for not attending the manorial court, being resident in the ‘Heth Hatche’ (Heath Hatch) tithing of the manor of Lagham (Lagham Court Book & Godstone by Uvedale Lambert).  At this date, Felbridge formed part of Heath Hatch, wholly in Surrey, abutting the Sussex county boundary and the site of the original Harts Hall.  The Surrey parish registers for Lingfield, Horne, Burstow and Horley, all local to the area, also record several Hart(e) births, marriages and deaths from the mid 16^th century and the name appears in the parish registers of East Grinstead and Worth, on the Sussex side of the county boundary, from the last quarter of the 16^th century.

The first documented reference to Harts Hall was on 17^th September 1642 in the court records for the manor of Imberhorne that records the conditional surrender of Edward Carnall, son and heir of George Carnall, deceased, for ‘a messuage or tenement called or recognised by the name Harts Hall and a garden, a barn, an orchard and certain land containing 5 acres lately enclosed from the waste, to the use of William Homewood and his heirs at a rent of 12d subject to the payment of £10 on 15^th October 1643’ (Imberhorne Court Records, AMS 5909/8, ESRO).  Edward Carnall had been baptised at St Swithun’s church, East Grinstead, on 31^st October 1602.  He appears to be the only son of George Carnall and his wife Katherine née Harte.  George had married Katherine, a widow, on 9^th November 1601, at St Swithuns.  Unfortunately it has not yet been possible to find a marriage between Katherine and any Mr Harte, but he must have died prior to 1601 for her second marriage to take place.  1601 also suggests that the property must have been standing prior to 1601 to take Mr Hart’s name.  For Harts Hall to end up with Katherine’s son Edward Carnall in 1642 would suggest that it had travelled through Katherine to the Carnalls and after her death in 1628 and the subsequent death of her husband George Carnall, their son Edward inherited it. 

The 1642 court record indicates that Harts Hall stood within 5 acres of land.  Edward Carnell was holding the property and used it to secure a 1 year £10 loan from William Homewood.  A year later, William Homewood/Holmwood married Ann Gates on 8^th January 1643/4 at St Swithuns and they had at least 8 children.  As a point of interest, one William Homewood, a victualler of East Grinstead, gave evidence at the Surrey Quarter Sessions in 1661 against John Dewdney of Godstone for wounding John Chantler.   He also appears in 1662 as an East Grinstead alehouse-keeper (The Bulletin of the East Grinstead Society, no. 86).  The victualler reference may be relevant as Harts Hall had become known as ‘Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon’ by 1711 when Homewood is cited as a former owner implying that Carnell defaulted on the loan or transferred the property to Homewood.

 

The next mention of the property in the Imberhorne court records is in 1678 when Mary Carr surrendered all her lands held of the manor of Imberhorne, which included Hart Hall, to the lord of the manor until her death when her will would be evoked and enacted upon (Imberhorne Court Records, ADA 106, ESRO), although it is not known how she acquired the property.  Mary Carr was potentially the daughter of Alan and Margaret Carr, who was baptised on 22^nd January 1625/6 at St Swithuns.  Mary’s next appearance in the Imberhorne court records is in 1693, when she, along with George Evelyn of Felbridge House and Richard Cooper, were ordered to pay a fine for ‘the incroachment of land belonging to the manor of Imberhorne’ (Imberhorne Court Records, ADA 106, ESRO).  Mary’s encroachment would appear to equate to an extra 1 rod of land to the east of her original 5-acre plot.  

 

There is a 1711 reference to the property in the Imberhorne court records when Thomas Sherman was admitted by grant to 5 acres of land west of  ‘Hartshall alias the Red Lyon at Felbridge Water’, that had been inclosed of the waste of the manor of Imberhorne, formerly of Edward Sherman, deceased; and also about 1 rod of land east of ‘Hartshall alias the Red Lyon’ inclosed of the waste of the manor, also formerly of Edward Sherman, deceased, formerly Homewoods’ (ADA 106, ESRO).  Thomas Sherman was baptised on 19^th October 1654, potentially the youngest the son of Edward Sherman/Sharman, a yeoman of East Grinstead, who had married Joan Searman, a widow of Croydon, at St Swithuns, on 23^rd July 1657.  The aforementioned Bulletin of the East Grinstead Society, no. 86 may also throw some light on Edward and Thomas Sherman:

‘The brew-house of Edward Sherman at the top of Hermitage Lane is one of the bounds of 54-56, High Street in a deed of 1659.  Thomas Sherman, cordwainer, of London in 1677, but of East Grinstead in 1678, is a party to the deeds of the Ship in this town [East Grinstead].  As Thomas Sherman of East Grinstead, he likewise appears in those of the Bull at Edenbridge, as cordwainer in 1681 and gent in 1690.  It would not be surprising for these two to have had some financial involvement with licensed premises at Felbridge also’.

 

The Imberhorne grant of 5^th September 1711, records that Thomas Sherman was admitted to ‘5 parcels of land adjacent and west of the tenement and land called Hartshall alias The Red Lyon’ and contained ‘5 acres inclosed from the waste of the common by Edmund [Edward] deceased’; and that the 1 rod was a ‘parcel of land on the east of the tenement and land aforesaid’ that was being used as a hop garden having been previously inclosed from the waste of the common by Edmund [Edward] Sherman, for which he had been paying a rent of 2s; Thomas’ entry fee amounted to 40s.  From this description, the plot on which Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon was standing was between the 5-acre plot and the 1-rod hop garden, both enclosed by Edmund Sherman before 1711.  For Harts Hall to be referred to as ‘Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon’ suggests that by 1711 the property was being used as an inn or ale-house, and with an adjacent hop garden, was potentially brewing its own ale.

 

The next reference to the property is in 1714 on the presentment of the death of Mary Carr, spinster, who had died on 18^th August 1712 (aged 85/86), holding ‘Hartshall alias the Red Lyon’ near Felbridge Water', which included ‘a barn, stable and land in East Grinstead, before Shermans and before Homewoods’. This entry provides the former holders of the property confirming that [Edward] Sherman had held Hartshall after Homewood and before Carr despite no surviving court record for this transaction (ADA 106, ESRO).  In addition, the entry lists that the property was ‘now or late in the occupation of Henry Cooper or his assigns’.  This implies that Henry Cooper could have been occupying the Red Lyon in 1714, or earlier, and that possibly the Cooper family had been occupying the property from 1693 when Richard Cooper was fined for the incroachment on land belonging to the manor of Imberhorne.  As a point of interest, it is also known that one Henry Cooper applied for a victualler’s licence in 1704 (EG Quarter Sessions) and that one John Cooper was an ale-house keeper in East Grinstead in 1705 (The Bulletin of EG Society, no.90, QR1E1305116, ESRO).  Whilst there is no conclusive evidence that either aforementioned Coopers were at the Red Lyon, they are more than likely associated with the mini-dynasty of inn-keeping Coopers found in East Grinstead as identified by Michael Leppard: ‘The Star, at 42-44 High Street (currently an Indian restaurant [now the Rocca Kitchen, a Turkish restaurant and cocktail bar]), was 'formerly Coopers' according to the De La Warrs' 1881 abstract of title' and Thomas Cooper is recorded there in rentals from 1662 to 1683, and in 1705 an East Grinstead alehouse-keeper named John Cooper is known’ (The Bulletin of the East Grinstead Society, no.90).

 

On the death of Mary Carr, her will was enacted and the property appears to have passed to Catherine Newman, a widow, who was to hold the property for her life.  Unfortunately it has not yet been possible to determine the relationship between Mary Carr and Catherine Newman.  The entry for the death of Catherine Newman appears in the Imberhorne court books on 7^th October 1742 (ADA 108, ESRO), having been buried at St Swithuns as Katherine Newman on 1^st May 1742.  At her death, she held ‘a moiety of a messuage or tenement called Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon at Felbridge Water, a barn, a stable and lands consisting 5 acres in East Grinstead, formerly Shermans before Homewoods since Carrs at rent of 6d’, and also ‘a moiety of the same premises formerly Shermans and before Homewoods at the rent of 6d’.  As can be seen these two moieties equate to the description of the 10 acres in 1711.  However, the 1 rod (hop garden) is not included.  On the death of Catherine Newman, the will of Mary Carr ‘devised the property to Catherine, daughter of John Pickering, gentleman, late of East Grinstead’, who was by then the wife of Francis Green, gentleman, of East Grinstead; both Catherine and Francis Green being admitted to the property (Imberhorne Court Records, ADA 108, ESRO).  Unfortunately, as with Catherine Newman, it has not yet been possible to determine the relationship between Mary Carr and Catherine Green née Pickering.

Catherine Pickering had been born in Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1691, the daughter of John Pickering (1649-1720) and his wife Barbara née Scrase.  Catherine had married Francis Green at St Michael’s Church, Withyham, Sussex, on 19^th September 1721.  Francis Green had been born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1681, the son of Thomas Green and his wife Anne née Camp.  Catherine was Francis’ second wife, Francis having married Anne Head in 1707 who had died in early 1721 (for further information see Handout, Gibbshaven Farm, SJC/JIC 07/07).  Catherine and Francis had at least two children, John born in 1724 (no further information) and Catherine born in 1742; both in East Grinstead.  Francis Green, either by inheritance, purchase or through his wife Catherine, amassed a considerable land holding in Surrey, Sussex and Kent during his life and it is during Catherine Green’s ownership that we get the first depiction of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon, appearing on a map commissioned by Edward Evelyn of his estate of Felbridge (Bourd map, 1748).  Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon is one of a handful of properties outside the bounds of the Evelyn estate to be included and is depicted as a dwelling house situated on the northern extremity of East Grinstead Common, on the Sussex side of the county boundary, west of what is now the Star Inn at Felbridge on the Surrey side of the county boundary. We know that Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon is a domestic building as Bourd was very particular in his use of roof colour to denote the difference between domestic and non-domestic buildings, and we know it is the Red Lyon because it was the only property on the north of Felbridge Water recorded in the Imberhorne court books/rolls at this date. When modern maps are superimposed onto the Bourd map, Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) stood within what became the back garden of Strath Cottage (see below), now part of the development known as Mulberry Gate off Copthorne Road.  All of the buildings of the Star Inn and the Felbridge Place complex, as well as the field boundaries align with their current locations demonstrating the accuracy of the Bourd map.

In April 1754, Francis Green died and his widow Catherine was admitted to the property on 5^th October 1754 (Imberhorne Court Records, ADA 109, ESRO).  Catherine Green died and her will, dated 22^nd August 1763, granted ‘Hartshall alias The Red Lyon at Felbridge Water’ and a barn, a stable in its 5 acres together with and lands containing 5 acres 1 rod in East Grinstead (the hop garden again included) to John Cranston, gentleman of Fleet Street, London and Catherine his wife; the Imberhorne court books recording that John Cranston was admitted to the property on 27^th September 1769 (ADA 110, ESRO).  In this instance, the relationship is known between Catherine Green and John Cranston, he was her son-in-law, having married her daughter Catherine on the 8^th November 1759 at St Swithuns.  John had been born in London in 1736, the son of William Cranston and his wife Mary née Swaysland (for further information see Handout, Gibbshaven Farm, SJC/JIC 07/07).  John and Catherine Cranston had two children, Edward born in 1761 in Holborn and Catherine born in 1764 in East Grinstead.

 

The Cranston family, like the Green family, did not reside at Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon, as it is known that in 1763 John Cranston was living and operating as a solicitor out 39, High Street, East Grinstead (now Pizza Express).  However, the occupier’s name can be obtained from the land tax records (ADD MSS 18419, WSRO) that records Robert Knight as occupying the property between 1751 and 1784.  In 1751, the property is recorded as ‘late Stones farm’ implying that before Robert Knight took up occupancy the property was in the use of someone by the surname Stone (sadly no further information).  During the majority of Robert Knight’s tenure, the property was recorded as ‘his farm’, however, we know that it is Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon because, interspersed among the entries is ‘Robert Knight for the Red Lyon’.  It is also known that Robert Knight operated a Carriers’ business from Felbridge Water and there is a reference in the surviving account books of Knights Carriers, in 1760, for the payment of £10 rent to Mrs Green (Knights Carriers Accounts, FHA). 

Robert Knight was born about 1715 and married Ann Boorah in 1744 in Cowden, Kent, and they had at least 7 children, Ann born in 1744, Robert born in 1745, Jonas born in 1747, John born in 1750, Sarah born in 1752, George born in 1754 (the baptism record states ‘George son of Robert and Ann or Sarah Knight’) and Edward born in 1758 (who sadly died in 1759); the first 4 children were baptised in Cowden and the remaining children in East Grinstead.  Based on the children’s baptism locations, it would imply that the Knight family moved from Cowden to the East Grinstead sometime between 1750 and 1752; this is also borne out by the entry for Robert Knight in 1751 in the land tax records.  It has also been established that Robert Knight operated a Carriers’ business from Felbridge Water, the area in which Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon was situated and there are a set of accounts that survive for the business, the earliest entry being April 1761 and the latest October 1784 (see below).

 

Robert Knight died on 26^th December 1784 and was buried on 2^nd January 1785, his tombstone in St Swithuns’ churchyard recording his address as Felbridge Water, the area in which the Red Lion was located (The Bulletin of the EG Society, No.90).  It was not unusual for an ale-house or inn keeper to have a secondary occupation or in the case of the Robert Knight, he appears to have been carrying on three businesses from Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon – his farm, the inn/alehouse and his Carriers’ business.  After Robert’s death, it is known that Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (Land Tax, ADD MSS 18419, WSRO) was in the fleeting occupation of one John Laker (no further information). 

 

Three years before the death of Robert Knight, John Cranston died on 26^th March 1781; his death appearing in the Imberhorne court book on 29^th September 1783 (ADA 110, ESRO).  On 22^nd March 1785 John and Catherine’s son Edward Cranston was admitted to ‘Harts Hall alias The Red Lyon at Felbridge Water and a barn, stable and lands containing 10 acres in East Grinstead at a rent of 1s’.  It is interesting to note that the property is now known as a single entity and not the two moieties as previously recorded at the Imberhorne courts; the two 6d rents now combined as a 1s rent.  At the 1785 court, Edward surrendered the property into the hands of the lord of the manor of Imberhorne with ‘all intents to Catherine Cranston, his mother’ (ADA 110, ESRO, & Abstract of title for Harts Hall, Box 3151, SHC).  A year later in on 20^th November 1786, Catherine Cranston, widow, surrendered Harts Hall alias The Red Lyon, together with its barn, stable and lands containing 10 acres, to the use of Thomas Ewridge/Uridge of Godstone, millwright (Imberhorne Court Records, ADA111, ESRO) who is listed in the land tax records as the ‘owner’/occupier between 1787 and 1793.  As a point of interest, throughout these 6 years the Surrey Quarter Sessions record Thomas Uridge holding a victualler’s licence for the Blue Anchor in Blindley Heath in Surrey and in 1786, Thomas Uridge, victualler of Godstone, mortgaged the property to Thomas Walter, tanner of East Grinstead, for a 1 year loan of £200 (Imberhorne Court Records, ADA 111, ESRO).  Thomas Uridge had been born in Buxted, Sussex, in 1750 and he and his wife Sarah had at least 4 children. 

 

On 6^th October 1794, the Imberhorne court books record the mortgage by Thomas Uridge, millwright of Godstone, of ‘Hartshall’ alias The Red Lion at Felbridge Water with its barn, stable and lands containing 10 acres to the use of William Wicking, yeoman of Godstone’ (The Blue Anchor, Blindley Heath, JIC/SJC 03/12), for a loan of £200 to pay off the previous loan. (AMS 5901/3, ESRO) and between 1794 and 1797, Richard Winchester is recorded as occupying Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon.  Sadly there are two potential Richard Winchesters in the area around this date, one East Grinstead based and one Horne based and unfortunately nothing has yet been found to tie one or the other with Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon.  The last year of Thomas Uridge’s ‘ownership’ of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon saw the beginning of 13 years occupancy by Robert Batchelor (no further information).

 

Thomas Uridge died in 1798 (his wife Sarah having pre-deceased him in 1797), his death being recorded in the Imberhorne court books on 26^th October 1798, stating that his only son and heir was John [Alender] Uridge.  At the same court, John Brooker, a yeoman of Worth, was admitted to the property as a result of foreclosure of a loan taken by Thomas Uridge on 5^th June 1794, for £300, which had ‘not yet been paid’ (AMS 5901/3, ESRO).  John Brooker died shortly after admittance to Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon and was buried at Worth, Sussex, on 15^th August 1799.  At the time of making his will on 5^th July1784, John Brooker was living at The Moor in Horne, Surrey.  The Imberhorne court books record that it took several attempts to find any heirs of John Brooker and that finally, on the third proclamation, John Franks, yeoman of Worth and Melanethon Saunders, yeoman of Burstow, [friends and] executors of the will of John Brooker came forward.  They presented the will and were admitted to Harts Hall alias The Red Lyon at ‘Fell Bridge’ together with one barn, one stable and land containing 10 acres’ on 17^th October 1801 (AMS 5901/3, ESRO & Abstract of Title, Box 3151, SHC)

 

John Franks died in 1804 (Abstract of Title, Box 3151, SHC) aged 80, and using his will and various parish registers you can begin to piece together his family.  He was born about 1724 and at the time of writing his will on 6^th April 1804 he was living at Wallage Gate, Worth.  John married Ann Worsell in Westminster on 2^nd February 1747; Ann giving her residence as ‘Worth’, and they had at least 11 children.  As for Melanethon Saunders it has proved a challenge to ascertain much information on him, even though he has an unusual first name.  The most likely candidate was born in Charlwood, Surrey, in 1749, the son of Thomas Saunders, and married Ann Budgen in 1802 in Burstow.  On his death in 1826, Melanethon gives his address as Burstow Lodge, Burstow. 

 

On 6^th October 1808, the Imberhorne court book records the surrender by Melanethon Saunders, as the surviving testator of the will of John Brooker, of Harts Hall alias The Red Lyon at Fell Bridge, along with the barn, stable and 10 acres of land to the use of John Alender Uridge (son of Thomas Uridge, see above), millwright of East Grinstead, who was admitted, but who, at the same court, surrendered the property to the use of ‘William Muckamore, timber merchant of the borough of Southwark’ (AMS 5901/3, ESRO).  In 1809, the property was granted to William Muckamore who also held Mercers Land and Rowcroft (for further information see Handout, Lost Property Pts, 1, 2 and 3, Harts Hall, SJC 07/05 & Eating and Drinking Establishments of Felbridge, Pt. 2, SJC/JIC 03/08).

 

William Muckamore was born in Westerham, Kent, in 1759, the son of Thomas Muckamore and his wife Martha.  William married Elizabeth Potter on 26^th September 1779 in Southwark; Elizabeth having been born on 16^th May 1758, the daughter of Thomas Potter and his wife Ann née Lowe.  William and Elizabeth had at least 4 children, Ann born in 1781 (sadly died in 1789), Susannah born in 1785, Mary born in 1787 and James born in 1790; Ann was baptised in Godstone and the remaining children in Oxted.  William Muckamore appears in the Surrey quarter sessions as holding a victualler licence between 1785 and 1791.  However, in 1808, at the marriage of his daughter Susannah, William Muckamore is listed as a timber merchant and at the time of purchase of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon in 1809, he still recorded as a timber merchant.

 

As established above, Robert Batchelor was the occupier of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon when William Muckamore purchased it and remained there until 1811, when the land tax records William Muckamore as the owner and occupier until 1822.  However, there is evidence that Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon was not his main residence and he appears to have invested in several other properties, both in the Felbridge area and elsewhere.  In 1809, William Muckamore was granted a lease and release on property adjacent to the Harts Hall alias the Red Lion plot by Robert Wood and his wife Elizabeth (Abstract of title for Harts Hall, Box 3151, SRC) and on 28^th October 1818, the Imberhorne court books record an encroachment by ‘William Muckamore, gentleman of East Grinstead, at Felbridge, containing 2 acres adjacent to lands called Harts Hall alias The Red Lion at Felbridge Water’.  The ‘Bailiff’ was ordered to remove the fences of the ‘incroachment’ (AMS 5901/4, ESRO).  Four years later, on 24^th January 1822, it is recorded that William Muckamore, ‘copyhold tenant of the manor of Imberhorne’, received £1,850.00 from John Cuthbert Joyner esq. of Denmark Hill in the parish of Lambeth (for further information see Handouts, Harts Hall, SJC 07/05 & Stained glass of St John the Divine, SJC 07/02ii) , for ‘one undivided moiety of a messuage or tenement called Harts Hall, otherwise known as The Red Lion at Felbridge Water and one barn, one stable and certain lands thereto belonging of about 10 acres with the appurtenances in East Grinstead, formerly Shermans, and before Homewoods’ [among other holdings] (Title Deeds of 16, Imberhorne Lane, FHA), John Cuthbert Joyner being admitted to the property (Schedule 1, Abstract of title for Harts Hall, Box 3151, SRC); the land tax recording him as the owner/occupier until 1830 (ADD MSS 18419, WSRO).  However in 1831, the land tax records one Capt. Irvine (no further information) living at ‘Joyner’s property’ until 1834.  On 12^th February 1834, there was a transaction made between RH Mary Countess of Plymouth (lord of the manor of Imberhorne) and John Cuthbert Joyner for the enfranchisement of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (Schedule 1, Abstract of title for Harts Hall, Box 3151, SRC) and on 17^th/18^th February 1834 there is a conveyance made between John Cuthbert Joyner and William Southey, blacksmith, for the holding known as Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (Schedule 1, Abstract of title for Harts Hall, Box 3151, SRC).

 

William Southey had been born about 1763 and married twice, first to ‘Nanny’ who was born about 1771 (died 21^st September 1821) and secondly Mary who was born about 1809 (died 1^st October 1875) (tombstone in St Nicholas Church, Worth).  William had at least 3 children with Mary,  Ann born in 1831 (named on the tombstone as dying on Good Friday, 12^th April 1893), Elizabeth Cary born in 1833 and John born in 1836 at Harts Hall; all baptised in East Grinstead.  William Southey was a blacksmith (for further information see Handout, Imberhorne Farmhouse, SJC 09/04).  The land tax lists William Southey as the owner/occupier of ‘Felbridge, Cottage’ between 1835 and his death in 1838, when his property, including Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon, was sold by his executors George Head, a linen draper of East Grinstead, and Thomas Brooker, a farmer of Burstow, to Robert Hawes, a gentleman of Fulham, on 11^th/12^th September 1838 for the sum of £1,200 (Schedule 1, Abstract of title for Harts Hall, Box 3151, SRC).  By 1838, the holding known as ‘Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon’ had acquired a further ‘3 acres more or less abutting and bounding the lands of Harts Hall in the south by the Highway leading from Felbridge to Crawley down on the north hand the east and west by the Common called Felbridge Heath’ (Abstract of title, Box 3151, SHC).  Unfortunately it has not yet been possible to determine when the 3 acres were acquired, although it may have something to do with an encroachment made during the ownership of William Muckamore, recorded in the Imberhorne court records on 28^th October 1818 (AMS 5910/04).  The acquisition of the 3 acres (see Beechwood below) completes Holding C as discussed in this document.

 

In 1850, Robert Hawes mortgaged Holding C still being described as ‘Harts Hall otherwise Red Lion at Felbridge Water with a barn, stable and 10 acres of land’ with Henry Danson of Hampstead and Alfred Richard Crocker, gentleman, for the sum of £1,225 (Abstract of Title, 1^st Schedule for Harts Hall, box 3151, SHC).  With the money, Robert Hawes appears to have purchased Oak Cottage (now known as Ann’s Orchard), Crawley Down Road, where in 1861, he, his wife Frances and son Richard were living and where they remained until Robert sold the property, together with Oak Farm (now Oak Farm Place) to Frances Gatty of Felbridge Park in 1870 (for further information see Handouts, Ann’s Orchard, SJC 05/01 & Oak Farm, JIC/SJC 01/13).  As a point of interest, it would appear that at this date, Robert Hawes retired from farming and went to live with his daughter Eliza, wife of William North, and their family at 38, Loughborough Park, Lambeth.  However, between 1850 and 1860 Holding C, described as ‘Harts Hall otherwise Red Lion at Felbridge Water with a barn, stable and 10 acres of land’ passed through several hands including John Archer who appears to have actually lived at Harts Hall for a short period of time, Thomas William Thompson of North End, Crayford, Kent (Title Deeds, Box 3151, SHC & Melville’s Directory and Gazetteer of Sussex, 1858, EGL)  and, whilst in the latter’s ownership, tenant Henry Byer Yeats (Electoral Roll, Ref: XA59/112-27, ESRO, 1841 census & East Grinstead PO Directory 1862).  Little is known about Thomas William Thompson except an entry published in the Morning Herald (London) on 16^th May 1865, that states: ‘Thomas William Thompson, late of the Parish of East Grinstead in the county of Sussex, merchant and shipowner and of Union Wharf, Millbank-street, in the city of Westminster, coal merchant (Trading in co-partnership with John Dalton under the firm or style of “Daton and Thompson” as coal merchants) … died at Singapore on or about the 22^nd day of January 1864…’

 

After the death of Thomas William Thompson, Thomas Howard Diasley, ship owner of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, as one of his executors, sold Holding C to William Ramsden Price (for further information see Handout, Harts Hall, SJC 07/05), merchant of 17, Grace Church Street, London on 13^th October 1864.  William Ramsden Price owned Holding C until 1878 when he sold it, together with other property in his ownership and local vicinity, to Charles Henry Gatty of FelbridgePark estate who then leased Holding C, amongst other property, back to Price (Title Deeds, Box 3151, SHC).  The ownership of Holding C remained with Charles Henry Gatty and then his heirs and executors, Alfred Leighton Sayer and Charles Lane Sayer, until they sold the Felbridge Estate, including Holding C, to Emma Harvey, wife of Percy Portway Harvey, a property developer, who put much of the Felbridge Place estate, including Holding C (as the Residential estate of Harts Hall (see below)), up for auction in May 1911 (for further information see Handout, 1911 Sale of the Felbridge Estate, SJC 01/11).  In 1911, Holding C was purchased by Arthur Smeeton Gurney, gentleman of Luxfords, East Grinstead (for further information see Handout Newchapel House, SJC 11/02), however, he put Holding C back on the market c1913 (see below).

 

It has not yet been established whether Holding C sold in its entirety in 1913 but the East Sussex Electoral Roll records Thomas Chitty as the resident of Harts Hall.  By 1918, the property was in the occupation of Emma Jane Drummond Withers and Helen Beatrice Withers who remained living at Harts Hall until 1923 when William and Mabel Thomas and Ernest Telling are recorded as living at ‘Harts Hall’ until at least 1928 (East Sussex Electoral Roll & PO Directory of East Grinstead).  Evidence suggests that sometime between 1920 and 1925 Holding C was broken-up, by either the Withers’ ladies, William Thomas or Ernest Telling, and sold off in plots for development to create the properties within living memory: Harts Hall, developed as Felbridge Court; Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages converted as Long Wall, now the development known as Longwall; the Stable Block converted as Strath Cottage, the site incorporating Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon and a barn, all now part of  the Mulberry Gate development; the Harness room and Coach-House/Garage that became the Felbridge Fire Station during World War II and premises for two local building companies, Lakes and Lale Ltd; a new build – the (Felbridge (St John) Institute later becoming Southways House, part of The Bentley Group, now redeveloped as part of Mulberry Gate; Star Garden Cottage; a new build – Shirley Cottage and associated stabling, now part of the Martins Mead/Birches View development; nos. 29 to 35 (odd numbers) Copthorne Road (still standing); nos. 1-9 (odd numbers) Crawley Down Road (still standing); Beechwood, 11, Crawley Down Road, plus a sub-division of its grounds to become 11a, Crawley Down Road, the latter now part of the Sinden Heath development.  All the lost properties of Holding C are detailed below. 

 

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Summary of the Lost Properties of Holding C

Harts Hall (TQ 37278 39598) (Property A)

Despite extensive researching it has unfortunately not been possible to determine exactly when Harts Hall (A) was constructed as the documentary description for the plot is always rooted in the historical name – Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (see above).  From early photographs of Harts Hall (A) appears stylistically to be late Georgian or Regency (c1810-1837).  This date would suggest that it was built in either the ownership of William Muckamore (1808-1822) or John Cuthbert Joiner (1822-1834).  Both men have merit for the construction, William Muckamore resided at the dwelling between 1811 and 1822 and it was under the ownership of John Cuthbert Joyner’s that the property was enfranchised, although he sold it the same year to William Southey.

As established above, the first depiction of a structure on the site of Harts Hall (A) is 1842 (East Grinstead tithe map) and the accompanying apportionment records the property as owned and occupied by Robert Hawes, containing a dwelling house, offices, orchard and 2 cottages.  The map depicts an ‘L’ shaped structure (A) (coloured black), east of the original Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), with the stream to its southeast.  To the northwest of the new structure is a long range of buildings (coloured black) adjacent to the county boundary, which is divided into 4 sections.  Robert Hawes was baptised on 2^nd January 1799 in Blockley, Gloucestershire [sometimes recorded as Worcestershire] the son of Robert Hawes and his wife Ann née Brain.  Robert married Elizabeth née Marlow (born c1797) and they had at least 4 children: Eliza born in 1826, Richard born in 1827, Robert baptised in 1832 and George born about 1832 being baptised the same day as Robert; all born in Fulham.  However, by 1841, the Hawes family had moved to Harts Hall, Robert being listed as a farmer.  Sadly Robert’s wife Elizabeth died just four years later, aged 48, and was buried in East Grinstead on 14^th February 1845 and on 23^rd January 1846 Robert married Fanny (aka Frances) Hickman (born c1798) in Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire.  The 1841 East Grinstead census entry also records a second household living at Harts Hall (A), Bernard Percy aged 51, a clergyman was also in residence along with 2 servants, Marry Allsop aged 16 and Ann Marden aged 22.   The 1841 census records Robert as a farmer living at ‘Felbridge Water’ and the position in the census suggests that the dwelling house, ie. Harts Hall (A), was the first following on from what became known as Stream Farm.  The census sequence also indicates that by 1841 there was a second dwelling within the holding, in the occupation of shop keeper Edward Walker (see below), before arriving at Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) (see below), the last dwelling on the Sussex side of the county boundary, before turning into what is now known as Crawley Down Road.

It is known that shortly after the purchase of the Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon plot, Robert Hawes had also purchased land off Imberhorne Lane on which stood a ‘cottage in 2 tenements’ (later known as Pixie Cottage and Lilac Cottage, 18 & 20 Imberhorne Lane) and by 1841, he had built a second ‘cottage in 2 tenements’ (later known as 22 & 24, Imberhorne Lane) (for further information see Handout, Lost Property of Felbridge Pt. 3, JIC/SJC 10/21).  The land tax records (ADD MSS 18419, WSRO) lists ‘Mr Hawes’ paying the £1 4s tax for a plot listed as ‘Felbridge, Cottage’ (probably Harts Hall (A)) between 1840 and 1844, the same tax amount as had been paid for Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon since 1794.   However, in 1845 ‘Robert Hawes was listed as paying £2 9s 9d for a house and land at Felbridge and taxes between 2/- and 3/- for a further 6 cottages; one at 2s 4d listed as occupied by James Walker (see below). 

In 1844, the Godstone tithe map not only depicts Star Garden Cottage (O) (see below) but also several buildings on the Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon holding on the Sussex side of the county boundary.  Harts Hall (A) is not depicted, probably because it was not adjacent to the county boundary, but the Godstone tithe map does depict a far clearer representation of the long range of buildings to the northwest of Harts Hall (A) adjacent to the county boundary, plus additional buildings that do not appear in the vicinity on the 1842 East Grinstead tithe map.  The long range of buildings is depicted with the east half black (possibly denoting non-domestic) and the west half red (domestic), this is on the site of what would eventually become Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages and then Long Wall (D & G).  To the east of the black half there is a small structure (B), adjacent to the county boundary and adjacent to the front face of the west end of the red half, was another small structure (G) that would eventually also become part of Long Wall (see below).  The Godstone tithe map does not depict Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), only the barn/stable that was listed in its manorial description.  However, although Star Garden Cottage (O) appears on the Godstone tithe it is coloured black, potentially meaning it was non-domestic although the accompanying apportionment lists it as a ‘cottage and garden’.

In 1851, from its position in the census run, Harts Hall (A) was in the occupation of Thomas Currie, aged 31, a fund holder, along with his wife Mary Ann aged 44, daughter Mary aged 1 and 2 servants, Harriet Belton and Hannah Olds.  However in 1860 George Byer Yeats is recorded as occupying Harts Hall (Electoral Roll, XA59/12-27, ESRO).  This is also confirmed in the 1861 census that records, George B Yates, aged 64, a merchant of London, residing at the premises along with his son Henry G Yates aged 32, listed as a farmer employing 1 labourer and 1 boy, daughter Charlotte E Yates and 3 servants, Elizabeth Brown, Catherine Jones and Ann Blackburn.  The next depiction of Harts Hall (A) is on the 1865 Ecclesiastical map of St John the Divine, Felbridge, which shows Harts Hall (A), still an ‘L’ shaped structure near the stream.  As established above, in 1864, Holding C was under the ownership of William Ramsden Price.  However, in 1871, the census entry for ‘Hartshall’ records Thomas Friend aged 38, a gardener, along with his wife Jane aged 37, as residing at the dwelling.  This is followed by an unoccupied dwelling, then David King aged 28, a grocer and draper, along with his wife Emily aged 30, daughter Emily Ada aged 5 and son Harry Horace aged 4 (see below).  Next in the run was William Smith and his family (see below).

 

The next depiction of Harts Hall (A) and its plot is on the 1873 OS map.  The dwelling known as Harts Hall (A) is now rectangular and somewhat larger than the structure on the previous map.  On its southern end is a structure depicted with a crosshatched roof indicating that it had a glass roof so was potentially a glasshouse or sunroom.  The grounds in front of Harts Hall (A) appear to have been landscaped with a circular drive surrounding a small island garden.  Unfortunately the 1873 OS map only distinguishes between solid and glass roofed properties, domestic and non-domestic buildings are depicted simply by their footprint on the ground often making it difficult to determine whether it is a dwelling or simply an enclosed space or courtyard.  To the northwest corner of Harts Hall (A) a new, small rectangular structure (B) can be seen adjacent to the county boundary and what is now the Copthorne Road.  To the west of this structure was the similar sized rectangular building (C) on the Sussex side of the county boundary, attached at its southwest corner to the larger rectangular building (D) bounded on its south and west sides by two rectangular glass roofed buildings (E) and (F).  In front of the most westerly building (F) was the small rectangular structure/enclosure (G) that now abuts, on its west end, another long range with a glass roof, (H) all built on the Surrey side of the county boundary abutting what is now the Copthorne Road.  Abutting the long range was potentially a rectangular building aligned north/south (I), short side to the road, that crossed the county boundary, abutting what was potentially Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) (see below).  Adjacent to building (I) on its west side, is the building/enclosure of Star Garden Cottage (O) built wholly on the Surrey side of the county boundary.  To the west of building (K), but built on the Sussex side of the county boundary, west of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), is a range of 2 buildings (L & N) with an enclosed open area between them (M), replacing the original barn/stable associated with Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) (see below).  

As established above, Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon had been sold by Thomas William Thompson to William Ramsden Price in 1864.  It would appear that many alterations and additions were carried out during the ownership of William Ramsden Price including the conversion of buildings (D & G) from a single dwelling with shop and associated buildings into Harts Hall Cottage (D & G).  In 1878, William Ramsden Price sold much of his property including Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (termed Holding C in this document), to Charles Henry Gatty of the Felbridge estate, which he leased back to Price in March 1878.  The 1878 sale deed plan depicts Harts Hall (A) and buildings (C & D) in red indicating that they are domestic buildings although structures (B, E, F, G & H ), all within the holding in 1873 and 1895, are not shown.  In 1881, the census records William Ramsden Price aged 54, ship owner, his wife Mary Ann aged 45, son William aged 24, daughter Eleanor aged 21, 4 servants, Helen Breffel, Emma Young, Mary Burchett, Eliza Rapson and Ruth Thorpe and visitor Kate Weston as residing at Harts Hall (A).  Also living within the vicinity of Harts Hall in Harts Hall Cottage was William Muddle aged 28, a gardener, with his wife Charity age 28, son George aged 3 and daughter aged 1 (for further information on the Muddle family see http://muddle-1.one-name.net/buxted/310rmac.htm).  These are the only two dwellings in the vicinity of Harts Hall (A) and there are no unoccupied dwellings listed.

 

In 1891, the census records Jesse Hall aged 39, army pensioner as caretaker, with is wife Annie aged 37 living at Felbridge Road, although in the census run this equates to Harts Hall (A).  The next property listed is called ‘Harts Hall’, although this is probably Harts Hall Cottage (C & D), which was in the occupation of William Muddle and his family, having expanded to now include another son and daughter – Walter aged 11 and Annie aged 5.  Again, these are the only two dwellings in the Harts Hall area and there are no unoccupied dwellings listed.  The next depiction of ‘Hart’s Hall’ is on the 1895 OS map which shows Harts Hall (A) unchanged with its additional side structure, the probable sunroom.  There is now an entrance off the junction between the main London road (A22) and what is now known as Copthorne Road, which may be why the 1881 census address was given as Felbridge Road.  Structure (B) is still depicted as a small square, roofed building.  Roofed structures (D & G) are depicted with their associated glass roof ranges (E, F & H) but structure (C) had disappersed.  However, there is much alteration in the vicinity of structure (I).  Structure (I) still abuts structure (J) (potentially Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon or a replacement building (see below)), and extending west from structure (I), incorporating the garden plot of Star Garden Cottage (O) on the 1873 OS map, is a long, roofed range, parallel to and abutting what is now the Copthorne Road, built wholly on the Surrey side of the county boundary, probably a replacement building.  On the south side of the west end of this extended structure is a south facing wing that abuts the Surrey/Sussex county boundary.  This structure incorporating both (I & K) has been identified as the Stable Block, Harness Room and Coach-House that were built to serve Harts Hall (A), which in turn were converted as Strath Cottage (see below) and The Felbridge Fire Station (see below). 

 

In 1901 the census reports that Harts Hall (A) was unoccupied but that Harts Hall Cottage (D) is still in the occupation of William Muddle and his family.  From the available evidence, after the death of Charles Henry Gatty in 1903 Harts Hall (A) stood unoccupied until sometime around 1906 when it became home to the newly appointed estate bailiff for Felbridge, Ormond Meppem and his family (for further information see Handout, Harts Hall, SJC 07/05 and Lost Property of Felbridge, Pt. 3, JIC/SJC 09/22).  In 1910, three names are given in relation to Harts Hall (A), Ernst Henkels junior (for further information see Handout, Eating and Drinking Establishments of Felbridge, Pt, 2, JIC/SJC 03/08), Stanley Parker and Arthur White (East Sussex Electoral Roll).  The most likely person living in Harts Hall (A) was Ernst Henkels and in 1911, three dwellings are recorded in the census in the vicinity.  In 1911, Harts Hall (A) would appear to be in the occupation of Mrs Amy Barclay a 60-year old widow living with her un-married sister Julia Meyer aged 62, servant Agnes Cheele/Cheese and groom Gordon Chapman.  Harts Hall (A) is described as having 9 rooms, excluding scullery, landing, lobby closet, bathroom, warehouse, office or shop.  Living in ‘Harts Hall Cottages’ (D & G) was James Kirkpatrick Anderson aged 31, a kennel man (probably for the Old Surrey and Burstow Hounds) living with his wife Ellen Lavinia aged 31, daughters Vida May aged 3 and Josephine Alice aged 4 months.  Based on the places of birth, the family must have moved to ‘Hart Hall Cottages’ (D & G) sometime between 1908 and 1911; their dwelling consisting of 3 rooms.  Also recorded at ‘Harts Hall’ was Peter Boesboom aged 50, a gardener born in The Hague, with his wife Ellen aged 38 and son Francis aged 10 weeks recorded as having been born in Felbridge; their dwelling consisting of 4 rooms.  For the Anderson family to give their address as ‘Harts Hall Cottages’ would imply that probably the Boesboom family address should also have been ‘Harts Hall Cottages’ implying that perhaps Harts Hall Cottage (D) of 1901 had been divided into two dwellings to accommodate the two families.

 

As established above, in 1911 Harts Hall was put up for auction as part of the Felbridge Place estate and the sale catalogue gives a detailed description of the property as well as photographs.  The sale particulars were as follows:

Lot 6

A Remarkably Beautiful Small

Freehold Residential Estate

HARTS HALL

in the Parishes of East Grinstead and Godstone

of about 23a 1r 3p

Including beautiful grounds and well-timbered park-like lands, combining all the advantages of a rural retreat with the convenience of a town almost adjoining, and within easy reach of London

 

Comfortable old-fashioned residence.

Substantially built of brick and stucco, stands nicely back and is well screened from the road, approached by a Drive, and the accommodation comprises:

In the Basement – Excellent dry Cellars running under the whole of the house, with enclosed Wine and Coal Cellars.

 

On the Ground Floor – Entrance Hall, Drawing Room, 24ft by 11ft, with modern stove and white marble mantel, Dinning Room, 22ft by 12ft 6ins, with modern stove and marble mantel. The capital Domestic Offices include Large Kitchen, with a range, Scullery with a copper and sink, Pantry with a glazed sink and good Dairy.

 

On the First Floor, approached by 2 staircases, are 6 Bedrooms, each fitted with fireplaces and one fitted with bath (h&c), and housemaid’s sink, small Dressing Room and WC.

 

There is an excellent supply of water from well, with pump. The Water Company’s mains are laid in the road and are available if preferred.

 

The Model Buildings include:

Stabling, substantially built of brick and slate, and consisting of 7 loose boxes, Harness Room, large Coach House, suitable for Motor Garage, and timber-slated Cowshed for 11 cows, another timber and tiled Cowshed for 8 cows.

 

Pair of Cottages, brick-built and stucco, with slated roof, each containing 4 rooms. Detached Wood Lodge with copper and WC.

 

Remarkably beautiful old grounds, studded with luxuriant well-grown specimen trees, banks of rhododendrons and other shrubs, and including Old Turf Lawns with flower beds, productive Kitchen Garden, and Park-like Pasture Lands, intersected by a running stream, and studded by fine timber, also small Plantation.  The Property is partly enclosed by a high brick wall, and otherwise by belts of handsome Fir trees, and the total area is 23a 1r 3p as set out in the Schedule.

 

Plot	Use	Acreage
	East Grinstead parish
8	Park	8.785
9	Park	6.988
10	House, buildings and grounds	2.604
11	Pasture	1.377
30	Garden	0.501
31	Plantation	0.774
	Godstone parish
240	Buildings, grounds, etc	0.393
223	Park	1.848
	Total	23.270

 

Possession will be given on completion of the purchase, and this lot is particularly commended to those seeking a moderate Country House with really beautiful grounds, within easy reach of every convenience, or having regard to its position and long frontages, it is very valuable for the purpose of development.

NB: Holding C, as discussed in this document, does not include plots 9, 11 or 30 of the ‘Residential estate of Harts Hall’ amounting to 8.866 acres, making Holding C a total of 14.404 acres.

The accompanying sale plan (based on the contemporary OS map) shows Harts Hall (A) with its sunroom, Harts Hall Cottage (D) and associated glasshouses/outbuildings (E, F & H), the stable block complex (I, J & K), a structure on the site of Hart Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) and 2 associated buildings (L & N). 

As established above, the ‘Residential estate of Harts Hall’, Lot 6, was purchased by Arthur Smeeton Gurney in 1911 and on the 1912 OS map several of the buildings are not depicted including the glasshouses/outbuildings (E & F), Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) and one of its associated buildings (L).  However, the ‘Residential estate of Harts Hall’ was again put up for sale c1913, the sale particulars little changed since 1911, although the text does include that ‘The elevations [of Harts Hall] are of plain Tudor style, substantially built of stuccoed brick’.

Using map evidence suggests that Harts Hall (A) stood in the vicinity of nos.1-4 Felbridge Court and using the accompanying photographs found in the 1911 and 1913 sale catalogues it is possible to give a description of the building.  The original structure gives the impression of a Regency town house as would have been seen in fashionable towns and cities like London and Brighton under the influence of the Prince Regent.  It was built in a style that was the height of fashion, with straight clean lines, being geometric, probably white in colour and would have appeared very alien when compared to the rustic brick and tile buildings of rural Felbridge at that time.  Its general appearance was that of a rectangular box, its low double gabled roof hidden behind a pediment, a fashionable style in the early 19^th century. 

 

The property was built of brick and stucco with a simple moulding running along the base of the pediment, another just above the line of the ground floor windows and door, and a third in line with the base of the door above the basement windows.  The front face had four evenly spaced Regency-style sash windows on the first floor with eight small panes to each half of the window and no mouldings.  The front door was situated below the second window from the south end of the house with one window below the first floor window to the left of the door and two windows under their corresponding first floor windows to the right.  The three windows on the ground floor had a discreet stucco architrave running across the top of each window descending about a quarter of the way down each side.  There was a small flight of curve-ended steps leading to the door and curved topped basement windows below the three ground floor sash windows.  The roof was slated and there was a chimneystack at each end.  Being double-gabled, the property would have been two rooms deep and may have had up to fourteen rooms, with a large lit basement.

 

At some time after the original construction but before its next depiction on the 1873 OS map, an extension was built onto the north end of the property.  The architectural details of the extension suggest that it was contemporary with the building/conversion of the pair of cottages known as Long Wall (D & G) (see below).  The extension consisted of a gabled structure running east/west on the north end of the property that projected in front of the original face of the building.  The west end of this east/west extension abutted a second gabled structure running north/south that incorporated part of the west side of the original building.  However, the extension running north/south was not the full length of the property only from the north end to about two thirds of the length of the west side.  To incorporate the original structure on the west side of the building the roof line of the extension had to be raised and was therefore higher than the original property.  The front gable, facing east, replicated the simple moulding from the pediment of the original building, but the gable facing north had festoon barge board like those on the gable ends of Long Wall (D & G) (see below).  The windows were sash but by this date were only two large panes each half, typical of the Victorian period.  There were no windows on the north wall of the house, only a door at the east end, and there is evidence that the original front door on the east side of the property had been altered by reducing its width. 

 

Also in 1875, map evidence indicates a glass roofed structure had been attached to the south end of the property, possibly a conservatory or sunroom, and that something had been added to the west side of the property, abutting the south end of the previous extension. The small addition to the west wall was a flat-roofed single storey structure with a door approached by a flight of steps, with a small window to the south of the door.  The utility style of this structure suggests a possibly entrance way connected with the domestic offices of the property.

 

As established above, it is unclear who purchased Harts Hall (A) in 1913 but the Electoral Roll records Thomas Chitty as a resident (he later moved to Oak Farm (for further information see Handout, Oak Farm, JIC/SJC 01/13)).  By 1918, sisters Emma Jane Drummond Withers and Helen Beatrice Withers were living at Harts Hall (A) until 1923 when William and Mabel Thomas and Ernest Telling are recorded as living at ‘Harts Hall’ (A)  until at least 1928 (Electoral Roll & Post Office Directory of East Grinstead).  Sometime between 1920 and 1925 Holding C, including the ‘Residential estate of Hart Hall’ was broken-up and sold off in plots suggesting that either the Withers’ sisters, William Thomas or Ernest Telling were responsible.  Turning to the Electoral Rolls, it is possible to determine who was living at ‘Harts Hall’ (A).  From 1923, Gerard Robert and Florence Eva Bacot are recorded as living there until at least 1939 and again in 1945; as well as Marjorie Belle and Lilian Eva Cheesewright (1923-1937) and an assortment of other females including: Daisy Ada Elliott (1930), Kathleen Marjorie Adams and Lilian Waller (1931), Frances Laura Knights (1931-5), Olive Bruford (1932) Sybil Lake (1932), Hilda Taylor (1933-5), Hannah Nesbit (1933), Annie Beatrice Wilby (1934-8 & 1945).  Potentially these females may have been servants, companions or, during the war years, evacuees.  In 1939 and 1945, John and Mabel Allen and Thomas P and Isabella Hearne are also recorded in the Electoral Roll for Harts Hall (A).  The entries also imply that Gerard Robert and Florence Eva Bacot together with Annie Beatrice Wilby were in residence for the duration of World War II and that John and Mabel Allen and Thomas P and Isabella Hearne succeeded Marjorie Belle and Lilian Eva Cheesewright.

 

The 1938 OS map depicts the buildings in the vicinity of Harts Hall as virtually unchanged except for the construction of the Felbridge (St John) Institute (see below), and, as already established, the Stable Block (I) and structure on the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon  (J) that had been converted as Strath Cottage (see below).  According to local residents, Harts Hall (A) housed evacuees during World War II and was home to a ‘ladies club known as the Carlton Club’ (unsubstantiated as the Carlton Club was formed in 1832, as a male only, private members’ club in St James, London and was the original home of the Conservative Party).  Sometime during the war years Cuthbert and Florence Griffith moved to Harts Hall (A) with two children, Violet and Len (Documented memories of Jean Starr, FHA); another resident recalls that ‘Mr Griffiths was steward of the Harts Hall’ (Documented memories of Jack Higgins, FHA); and other local residents recall Harts Hall had an association with Sir Ronald Gunter.  The Electoral Rolls confirm that Cuthbert and Florence Griffith were resident at Harts Hall (A) between 1946 and 1950 and it is known that Harts Hall (A) operated as a Country Club in the post war years.  However a local resident remembers attending the birthday party of Cuthbert Griffiths’s daughter Violet during the war, implying that the Griffiths family could have been in residence since the late 1930’s or early 1940’s.  As for Sir Ronald Gunter he does not appear in the Electoral Rolls as residing at Harts Hall, although no Electoral Rolls were produced were during the war years.  Other residents that appear at Harts Hall (A) in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s are: Leonard A Griffith (1948) and John McDonald and Richard B and Janet Cross (1949-50). 

 

The next fairly long-term residents of Harts Hall (A) were: Reginald A and Beatrice E Hilborne (1951-54), as well as Norman Cole (1951-52) and Albert G and Faith E Kenny (1952-53), together with over a dozen people who appear for just one year between 1951 and 1954 in the Electoral Roll.  The high volume of residents’ turnover may suggest that Harts Hall (A) was being used as a hotel.  This is confirmed by the fact that in 1954, Julian and Martha London purchased Harts Hall ‘as a hotel’ (Correspondence from son Robin London, FHA).  Julian and Martha London had just returned to England from Australia with their two children, Christopher Robin (known as Robin) and Sharon.  Robin was a boy of eight when the London family moved to Harts Hall Hotel and has fond memories of his time there:

‘I recall one entered the hotel via the front door into a small entrance hall with hat and coat racks on the wall. A door opposite led down to the cellar where the beer kegs for the bar and the boiler was housed. It was a very low roofed area as I recall Dad was always bumping his head on the ceiling causing an almost permanent graze on the top of his balding head. 

 

From the entrance hall you turned right up a step into a large foyer area. Straight ahead there were some doors which led out and down some steps to the garden area. To the right of you, looking towards the doors was another door leading into the bar which had a large bay window overlooking the garden. Just inside the door on the right hand side was the bar counter and to the side of the bay window was a piano which was played by one of the members of the East Grinstead Rugby Club accompanied by my mother on her piano accordion during jolly Saturday evenings. I remember one of the rugby lads, a big chap called Dave, was a great pal of my parents. 

 

On the left of the foyer area another door led into the dining room. This was similar in design to the bar and also had a large bay window overlooking the garden. Next to the dining room there was a door which led into the kitchen with a door leading outside and another door which led to a set of stairs going upstairs, (the back stairs). 

 

As you stood in the foyer looking towards the doors to the garden, on your left behind you and opposite the garden doors, was the main staircase leading upstairs for the guests. This was a large staircase with polished banister railings, carpeted stairs and brass stair rods. The stairs went up in two stages with a landing in between from where I was able to see into the bar in the evenings when I should have been in bed! As regards to the upstairs layout, I'm afraid I cannot remember. As far as I can remember all the bedrooms were on this floor. There was a further flight of stairs leading to an attic room which was mine. I recall getting into trouble for climbing out onto the very steeply sloping slate roof, extremely dangerous to adults but not to an adventurous 8 year old!

 

The grounds of Harts Hall were quite extensive and a paradise for a young boy to have many adventures in. Immediately outside the entrance hall doors was a large lawn area which led down to extensive ground of rhododendrons from the centre of which grew a very tall pine tree. Then followed a heavily wooded and shrubbery section of the garden with narrow paths leading around through the woods to a thatched roof summerhouse. At the bottom of the garden flowed a small stream with a little humped bridge which is still there [at the time of writing]. To the right of the garden, a path led off to an old tennis court that we never used and also an old apple orchard.

 

There were two guests that stayed with us that stick in my memory. The first was the first wife of film actor Stewart Granger [Elspeth March] who stayed for a week or so and brought with her two Siamese cats which I recall were very bad tempered and who would sit on top of the wardrobe when she was out and growl and spit at anyone who entered the room. I remember mum saying that Dorothy [the cleaner] refused to go into the room to clean as she was afraid of them. The second was a very eccentric man named Doug who owned a furniture manufacturing company in London somewhere and who was a regular visitor.  Our time at Harts Hall was a happy one albeit short and I have many fond memories of our time there’.

 

The 1955 OS map shows a great many changes to the property known as Harts Hall (A) since its depiction on the 1938 OS map.  Properties (D & G) (Long Wall) and its associated glasshouse (H) had been separated from the Harts Hall plot (see below).  Structure (B) was still standing adjacent to the Copthorne Road and there was a new, small rectangular structure to the west of Harts Hall (A) (probably the aforementioned summerhouse) and another, much smaller structure to the east, adjacent to the main London road (A22).  As for Harts Hall (A), the building had grown significantly since 1938 having been extended west of the original dwelling.  Using map evidence and photographs supplied by Robin London, it is possible to determine how Harts Hall (A) looked during the London’s residency.  The single storey sunroom on the south end of the original property had been replaced by a pair of three-sided bay windows, one above the other, which were divided by a deep band of tile hanging.  Moving along the original west side, the window on the ground floor at the southern end had been replaced by a door.  A single storey extension on the west wall had been incorporated into a two storey extension that retained its width before making a right-angled turn and extending west.  On the southwest corner of this extended section was a pair of four-sided bay windows, one above the other, which were again divided by a deep band of tile hanging.  However, unlike the other pair of bay windows at the other end of the building, which had a flat leaded roof, this second pair of bay windows was topped with tiles running into the hip of the main roof.  Set half way along the wall between the right angled turn and the second set of bay windows on this new south side of the property was a large curved opening leading to a recessed entrance into the main house.  Both this entrance and one that had been cut into the west wall of the original building were accessed by a flight of steps.

 

All the new windows in the walls, except a half circular one to the east of the recessed entrance, were sash but of varying widths with differing numbers of small panes of glass.  The roof of the new extension was tiled and there was a pair of casement windows set into the roof above the recessed entrance.  No photographs have yet come to light of the north side of the extended property but map evidence suggests that a porch had been added in a central position to create a new front entrance to the property which by then had been realigned to face the Copthorne Road.  Apart from the tile hanging associated with the bay windows and the brick surround of the archway to the recessed entrance on the south side of the property, the brick walls and chimney stacks were rendered in-keeping with the stucco walls of the original Regency property.  

 

One of the residential guests at Harts Hall Hotel during the London’s ownership was Miss Marjorie Grace Frome (Froom) who appears there in the Electoral Roll in 1954, later moving to the White Duchess Hotel (for further details see Handout, Eating and Drinking Establishments of Felbridge, Pt. 2, SJC/JIC 03/08) that was situated about a quarter of a mile north of Harts Hall.  Miss Frome (Froom) had been living at Wild Meadow in Rowplatt Lane between 1933 and 1935, before moving to the Old Pheasantry off Woodcock Hill in Felbridge where she lived until 1945 (for further information see Handout, Harmans, SJC 01/17).  However, the London’s stay at Harts Hall Hotel was short as in 1955 they sold it as a going concern to Edward Harry Hearn (known as Ted) and Oliver Scott.  Turning once again to the Electoral Roll, Edward Harry Hearn is listed at Harts Hall (A), along with J Oliver Scott and Una Elizabeth Lowe in 1956-57.  However, Edward Harry Hearn had disappeared from the property by 1958.  According to former local resident Eddie Pitt, ‘Ted Hearn sold up and moved to Canada’.  In 1958, the last year that John Oliver Scott appears at Harts Hall (A), he was joined by Horace Arthur and Dorothy Margaret Bowyer, Barbara May Izard, Dorothy Lucas, Harry J Sedgwick and William James Young (Electoral Rolls).  In 1960, Harts Hall (A) was purchased by Aubrey Clement and Edith Margaret Gethin who ran it as The Harts Hall Hotel and Felbridge Country Club, the name ‘Harts Hall’ painted in big white letters on the wall with ‘Entrance’ and an arrow (Documented memories of Mark Heselden, FHA).  Over the next few years Harts Hall (A) became very run down and in 1964 the site was sold for the development of Georgian style town houses called Felbridge Court. 

 

As a summary, the holding known as Harts Hall had several structures built on it over the years, some of which were repurposed/converted but all of which are now lost properties.  The dwelling house known as Harts Hall (A) was built on a holding which had been described as ‘Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon’ that pre-dated Harts Hall (A) by nearly 200 years.  Removing Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) (see below) from the holding, map and documentary evidence show that Harts Hall (A) had been joined by what was described as offices and a cottage in the East Grinstead tithe of 1842.  Two years later the Godstone tithe of 1844 gives a clearer view of the structures within the holding showing that along with Harts Hall (A), the following structures had been built (B) and (C, D, E & G) later part of Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages, later converted as Long Wall (see below).  Also, around this date, the holding acquired a cottage on the Surrey side of the county boundary – Star Garden Cottage (O) (see below).  By 1873, Harts Hall had acquired a sunroom on its southern side and several structures with glass roofs, probably glasshouses within the grounds (E, F & H).  Structure (B) disappeared between 1938 and 1964; structures (D, E, F, G & H) became known as Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages, sold off c1915 (known later as Long Wall) (see below); structures (I &K) became part of the Stable Block, Harness Room and Coach-House, the Stable Block (I) being converted as Strath Cottage (see below), sold off by 1925 and the Harness Room and Coach-House that housed Felbridge Fire Station (see below).  Three structures appear within the grounds of Harts Hall between 1938 and 1955 but have gone by 1964.  As for the dwelling known as Harts Hall (A), it was probably built between 1811 and 1822 and in 1842 appears as an ‘L’ shaped building.  Sometime between 1842 and 1873 it was extended, making it rectangular with an extension to its southern side that was probably a glasshouse or sunroom.  Around 1954/5, Harts Hall almost doubled in size with a large extension to the west side of the building and then remained unchanged until 1964 when it was demolished, along with many other structures that were still standing within its grounds, to make way for the development known as Felbridge Court. 

 

At least 5 Lost Properties and associated garden buildings have been identified within the grounds of the Harts Hall of living memory since the property’s break-up c1915 and its demolition in 1964.

 

Long Wall formerly Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages, before a Shop and Premises (Property evolved from D, E, F, G & H)

As established above, the property that became known as Long Wall has historically been known by several names – Harts Hall Cottages, Harts Hall Cottage and was potentially the site of the dwelling occupied by a grocer/draper and shop keeper between at least 1841 and 1871.  In 1842, the property falls within the general description of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon as one of the 2 cottages listed in the apportionment.  In the 1841 census, this dwelling is the first to appear in the census run after Harts Hall (A) and was in the occupation of Edward Walker aged, 60, shop keeper, his wife Elizabeth aged 60, daughter Eliza aged 20 and a 4-year old boy named Henry Phelps (for further information see Handout, Shopping in the Felbridge area, Pt. 1, SJC 07/10ii). This is the first evidence for a shop and premises in Felbridge.  Edward Walker died in 1844 but his widow Elizabeth appears to continue the business as she is recorded as residing at the property in the Land Tax records and the census records until at least 1851.  As a point of interest, son Thomas Walker was recorded in the Godstone tithe of 1844 as occupying Star Garden Cottage (O) (see below).  However, in 1861 the shop and premises within the Harts Hall holding were in the hands of Edward Brooker aged 41, grocer, and his wife Fanny aged 42, and children: Fanny aged 17, Mary Ann aged 14, Louisa aged 11, Edwin aged 8 and Charles aged 6 (for further information see Handout, Shopping in the Felbridge area, Pt. 1, SJC 07/10ii).  In 1866, Edward Brooker died and Fanny and her children moved to the High Street in East Grinstead, being succeeded at the shop and premises by David King.  The 1871 census lists David King aged 28, grocer and draper, living at the premises with his wife Emily aged 30 and their children, Emily Ada aged 5 and Harry Horace aged 4.  By 1881, the King family had left the area (for further information see Handout, Shopping in the Felbridge area, Pt. 1, SJC 07/10ii).

As established above, using map evidence, the Harts Hall holding was much altered between 1844 and 1878 and by 1881, the next dwelling on in the census run from Harts Hall (A) is listed as Harts Hall Cottage, occupied by William Muddle and his family from at least 1881 until sometime between 1904 and 1910.  By 1911, Harts Hall Cottage had been divided into two separate dwellings, probably by converting and joining (D) to (G), and it was in the occupation of James and Ellen Anderson and their family and Peter and Ellen Boesboom and their family (see above).  In 1911 and 1913, Harts Hall Cottages, incorporating (D & G), were put up for sale as part of the ‘Residential Estate of Harts Hall’ described as: ‘Pair of Cottages, brick-built and stucco, with slated roof, each containing 4 rooms’ with a ‘Detached Wood Lodge with copper and WC’ (Felbridge Place sales particulars, 1913). 

Stucco was a type of hard, fine plaster that was coated onto brickwork to fake stone and although no early images of the Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages (D & G) exist, from living memory and photographs the property looked very similar to Jaybees Stores at 17, North End, Felbridge, which from map evidence was constructed around the same time, between 1840 and 1873.  Part of Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages (D) was built wholly on the Sussex side of the county boundary, adjacent to what is now the Copthorne Road, although a rectangular building (G) to the west was built on the Surrey side of the boundary.  The long wall in front would eventually give its name to the property (Long Wall) in the late 1940’s.  The wall was joined to Strath Cottage (see below) and against the south side of this wall was a run of glasshouses (H) that would have caught the sun all day.  Map evidence suggests that this continuous run of glasshouses, plus a further two (E & F) were built sometime between 1842 and 1875.  Scars on some of the walls suggested the glasshouses were used for growing tender fruit and vines and remnants of this could be found with at least one grape vine clinging to a conifer near Strath Cottage in the early 2000’s.  The roof of the glasshouses had a section of felt tiles that ran the full length of the north side of the roof with glass the full length of the south side.  Although much over grown by the early 2000’s, the cast iron window opening mechanism of the glasshouses was still in situ.

 

There was evidence of a break in the long wall where the glasshouses ended (opposite the back entrance to the Star Inn).  There was also evidence of a door or window about two thirds along the wall, which originally had a brick lintel that had been bricked up, being only two bricks off the then level of the path.  There was a curve at the east end of the wall but this was not original and evidence suggests that it originally extended further east and was probably cut back at the time that Harts Hall (A) was developed as Felbridge Court to give a wider entrance to the close of houses.

 

When built, the property on the site of Long Wall was a dwelling with a possible shop unit but by 1881 had been converted/rebuilt as a single cottage, later converted as a pair of cottages sometime between 1904 and 1910, each with four rooms.  As a pair of cottages they would have been entered from the centre of each property through a door in the north wall, having two rooms up and two rooms down in each property.  The chimney stack positions indicate that each property had a fireplace in the room on the ground floor at the east end of each house, with possibly a smaller fireplace in the room above.  From photographs in the archive, the cottage on the west had, at a later date, installed a fireplace in the room at the west end of the house on the first floor requiring an external chimney on the south wall at first floor level.  As described in the sale catalogues of 1911 and 1913 the cottages were built of brick with stucco creating the illusion of being built of large blocks of dressed stone, very apparent with the ‘corner corbel stones’ as still found on Jaybees Stores at North End.  The roof was described as slated in 1911, but at some point before 1970 had been re-tiled with red clay tiles.  The gable barge boards were decorative with a festoon pattern running the full length of them, much like those still found on Jaybees Stores.  The chimneypots were creamy yellow in colour and hexagonal in shape.  The design of the chimneypots and the gable barge boards are indicative of the mid 19^th century, which ties in with the stucco work that was the height of fashion in the late Regency and early Victorian period, and map evidence for the date of construction/conversion.  The window surrounds at the back of the property were plain but at the front they had fairly ornate stucco extended diamond-shaped keystone and architraves and sills.  As a single dwelling there was a window either side of each door on the ground floor and three windows above, two directly above the ground floor windows and one above the door, although the central first floor window of the property to the west had been bricked up at sometime.

 

By 1915, Harts Hall Cottage may have reverted to being a single dwelling as it was in the occupation of Charles Edward Saward and between 1918 and 1928, John and Kate Harman and their family.  Between 1929 and 1939, and again in 1945, the residents are listed as George and Lilian Rose Prendergast, although in 1937 Ralph Stuart Sinden (see below) was also living there (East Sussex Electoral Roll).  However, sometime between 1945 and 1949, Harts Hall Cottage was purchased by Hallowell Charles Herman Thomas and Cynthia Zippie Thomas, changing the property’s name to Long Wall.  Between 1938 and 1955, the structures with glass roofs (E & F) disappear, leaving just glasshouse (H) standing.  In 1959, Arthur William and Doris Ena Rider purchased Long Wall when the Thomas family purchased and moved to Gullege (for further information see Handout, History of Gullege, SJC 03/02).  Arthur Rider was a member of the Felbridge Parish Council and honorary curate of St John’s, Felbridge.  He was officially ordained as deacon by the bishop of Southwark in December 1970 and left the Felbridge area in February 1974, retaining Long Wall (for further details see St John the Divine, Fact Sheet SJC 07/02i).  Arthur Rider eventually moved to Northern Cyprus and was later awarded an MBE for his services there.  However, he still retained Long Wall and rented it out to a succession of tenants. 

 

One of the first of Arthur Rider’s tenants were John and Dot Kellett who rented Long Wall until 1978, the following are some memories from their two children:

When I was a kid I lived … in a stunning house called Longwall, 1, Copthorne Road.  There was an arched gateway with a wooden door at the beginning of the wall.  The driveway was way down the end of the wall.  It took my little kid legs ages to walk from the car to back door!  The garden path was just an old red brick path, very narrow between the garage drive and the back door.  It felt like a massive walk for my little 6 year old legs at the time.  My parents owned the Londis store at 4, The Parade, opposite the Felbridge Hotel, from around 1972-79.  Mum was one of the leaders of the St John’s Girl Guides in the mid to late 1970’s and in the summer the pack would come for games and bonfires in the garden.

 

Stepping through the gate was like walking into a secret garden.  It had an acre of grounds and was the old gardener’s cottages, the only remnant of an old estate.  My family lived there during the 1970’s.  The house was two old gardener’s cottages that had been knocked through so it still had both front doors but only one opened.  Also in-between the two doors was the old cast iron water pump.  The rooms were small in the first cottage but as you moved along the corridor to the second one it opened up to one large space downstairs that was the dinning room and sitting room.  The layout was … enter the front door and immediate to the left was a small sitting room.  We never used it other then when my gran lived with us for a year.  I used it as a playroom.  Immediately in front of the front door where the ‘U’ shaped stairs.  Turning right was the long corridor that ran the length of the building passing the galley kitchen and into the opened second cottage that housed the dinning room and sitting room.  From the sitting room was a door that led to a square space off of which was a door to the sunroom and old outhouse that had been converted to a room we used as a spare bedroom/storage room.  To get to the garden you exited via the sunroom that also had a grape vine in it.  The room on the left behind the little sunroom was in Surrey ... the rest of the house was in Sussex. 

 

Loads of great memories of the house and garden especially as it was every young kids dream garden.  [The garden was] utterly massive about half an acre with amazing old Victorian glasshouses running down one side along the main wall … the longest greenhouse I’d ever seen.  There was a grape vine, fruit trees, bee hives, a massive veggie patch, cherry tree, red current/gooseberry/raspberry bushes.  We would spend all day in the garden.  It would take my dad all weekend to mow just half the grass. There was a massive weeping willow half way up that I would camp under.  We buried our rabbit Pipkin under the cherry tree and nailed a plaque to the tree. 

 

We left the house around 1980, after I finished at Halsford Park Primary and moved to Haywards Heath.  Safe to say Longwall sits within my favourite life memories.  It was such a privilege to live there and have the grounds as my playground … the house was super scary at night and I would tell my parents it was haunted by an old nun!!  Don’t ask me why I thought that.  I hear they knocked it all down and built housing.  Such a shame as it was full of history and the garden was stocked with mature fruit trees/bushes etc.  It is so sad that the house and garden have gone and the wall destroyed. I used to love walking though the gate and living in our secret house.  (Documented memories of A Haughton née Kellett & P K Kellett, FHA) 

 

Other tenants followed the Kellett family at Long Wall including the Willis and Fowler families, who lived there in the early 1980’s, followed by Barry and Patricia June Pinchen (also known as Diana Medway) (London Gazette, 7^th March 1983 & London Gazette, 5^th October 1988).

 

As a summary, the property that became known as Long Wall was built as a single dwelling and shop premises, possibly, straddling the Surrey/Sussex boundary, sometime between 1842 and 1875, with the small square structure (G) (possibly the shop unit) on the Surrey side.  By 1875, there were 2 associated glass houses (E & F) on the Sussex side of the county boundary and one (H) in Surrey.  By 1881, the property was either rebuilt or converted as a single dwelling and sometime between 1904 and 1910, Harts Hall Cottage, as it had been known, was converted as duel occupancy.  Sometime between 1913 and 1915, the dwelling appears to have reverted to single occupancy and between 1938 and 1955, glasshouses (E & F) were demolished.  By the late 1940’s Harts Hall Cottage and remaining glasshouse (H) had been re-named – Long Wall.  By 1970, the small square structure (G) had been incorporated as part of Long Wall, which together with glasshouse (H) remained unchanged until 2006, when following the death of Arthur Rider, the family sold Long Wall and it was demolished and replaced by the development now known as Longwall.

 

At least 6 Lost Properties have been identified within the grounds of the Long Wall since the separation from Harts Hall c1915 and its demolition in 2006.

 

Strath Cottage, formerly the Stable Block (Property I)

Strath Cottage was formerly the Stable Block for Harts Hall, which, as established above, was built sometime between 1842 and 1873.  The structure served as stables for Harts Hall, forming part of the ‘Model Buildings’ in the sale catalogues of 1911 and 1913, being described as ‘Stabling, substantially built of brick and slate, consisting of 7 loose boxes’ (see above).  Sometime between 1913 and 1926, the Stable Block was converted into the dwelling known as Strath Cottage, the first residents being Robert John and Mary Rickard and over the next ten years there was a succession of residents including: Sydney Aubrey and Calanthe McCarthy (1928-30), followed by Marion Jane McIntosh Smith and Alice Margaret and Emily Ethelwyn Flower between 1930 and 1934.  Marion Jane McIntosh Smith and Alice Margaret and Emily Ethelwyn Flower were sisters, originating from Suffolk, daughters of William Flower (1843-1922) and his wife Jane Spelman née Tacon (1843-1847).   Marion had been born in 1875 and had married dental surgeon Thomas William Smith in 1909, with whom she had two children before Thomas’ death in 1928.  Alice Margaret had been born in 1880 and Emily had been born in 1882.  The sisters only resided at Strath Cottage until their new house was constructed across the Copthorne Road – Aros Shona, which was built as a pair of semi-detached dwellings set within one garden area to accommodate Marion Mackintosh Smith and her family in one half and Alice and Emily Flower, who never married, in the other half.  Marion left the area and died in Harrogate in 1964.  By 1955, Alice and Emily had moved to Stone Cottage on the main London road in Felbridge (for further information see Handout, Stone Cottage, JIC/SJC07/12), before moving to 22, Christopher Road, East Grinstead, where they both died, Emily in 1967 and Alice in 1968.

 

The Flowers sisters were followed by Kendrick White Marstrand, a civil engineer and inventor, his wife Christabel Madeline [sometime written as Madeline Christabel] and his parents Emmie [Emma] and Otto Julius Marstrand, an engineer, between 1934 and 1935, before moving to Rowley Farm, Lowfield Heath near Crawley.  However, in 1937 they had moved back to Felbridge and were living at Shirley Cottage (see below).  The Marstrands were succeeded at Strath Cottage by Philip Gordon and Florence Rebecca Bamber until 1936 being followed between 1937 and 1939 by Muriel Bealey, who was joined by Felice Muriel Parsons in 1939 until 1945.  Sometime between 1945 and 1949 Strath Cottage was home to Edward A and Queenie Gray and Constance G Clarke.  In 1952, Queenie Gray sold the property to Maurice and Betty Etherington (East Sussex & Surrey Electoral Roll).  In 1970, Maurice Etherington died and his widow Betty continued to live at Strath Cottage until April 1971, when she sold the property to Ronald and Mary Taylor.

 

With regards to the structure, it is known that at some point in its history as a Stable Block it had suffered a fire and it was said that on occasions you could still smell burning hay/straw in the building.  It is also known that the Flower sisters added a room to the south end of Strath Cottage, on the site of what had been Harts Hall alias the Red Lion (J), which became a lounge.  From the memories of a local resident who was employed as a cleaner at the property, Strath Cottage was ‘L’ shaped and started with the lounge at the south end with double doors to the garden.  On leaving the lounge through a door on the east was a passageway that ran along the east side of the building with a bathroom at the south end of the passage next to the lounge.  Turning north there were two bedrooms and then the dining room with the kitchen at the far north end of the house and a small bedroom to the west of the kitchen.  The kitchen floor was well below the level of the Copthorne Road and had a loft above accessed by a ladder.  The main door into the property was located at the west end of the kitchen in its southern wall.  The property straddled the county boundary, the front section in Surrey and the back section in Sussex.  To the west of the cottage was a sheltered area that had originally been cobbled, probably the stable yard, but this had been grassed over at some time.  Near the trackway to the property, to the west of the Felbridge (St John) Felbridge Institute (see below), was an outbuilding used as a coal/wood store and garage.  This building was the ‘timber and tiled cowshed for 8 cows’ as referred to in the 1911 and 1913 sales, built as a replacement, sometime between 1842 and 1875, for the original barn and stable block associated with Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) (see below).  The gardens to the south of Strath Cottage gave way to a small field where geese were once kept, being later hayed and grazed by Muggeridge’s Stables, next door at Shirley Cottage, Copthorne Road (see below).  During the Etherington’s ownership the main door to the house was moved to the middle of the west side of the property and a porch was added and although the windows in the north and east walls had been retained they had been blocked-up internally, probably for privacy (Documented memories of former local resident, Joyce Chewter, FHA).

 

In 2007, probably as a direct result of the construction of the development of Longwall to the east of Strath Cottage, planning consent was sought for the erection of six detached houses and new access drive following demolition of Strath Cottage and nos. 11-15 Copthorne Road (Lale Ltd, formerly the Harness Room and Coach-House, and Southways House, formerly Felbridge (St John) Institute (see below).  However, permission was refused (APP/D3830/A/07/2041335/NWF), but two years a second planning application was approved and Ronald A and Mary T Taylor sold Strath Cottage and its associated land to Riverdale Development for the construction of the gated development of six houses known as Mulberry Gate.

 

On a study trip to Strath Cottage (I) in 2009, just prior to its demolition, the property was accessed down a short track to the west of the old Felbridge (St John) Institute (see below).  The roofline of Strath Cottage was lower than that of the adjacent buildings – the former Harness Room and Coach-House (see below) and there was a visible difference in the mortar used between Strath Cottage and the adjacent buildings. The lintels of the two windows on the north end of Strath Cottage were brick on top of wood and were cut into the wall after its original construction.  All the small windows along the east wall of Strath Cottage had also been cut into the wall at a later date, but at a different date to those on the north end.  The north wall of Strath Cottage was plain dark red brick and the east wall had a chequer-board pattern of grey and red bricks.  The roof was slate with a fancy ridge tile that ran the length of the original north/south build and along the adjoining Harness Room and Coach-House.  There had once been a chimneystack at both ends of the north/south run of Strath Cottage but the northern one nearest Copthorne Road, by the easterly gable end, had been removed.  The original louver on the ridge of the long length of the roof was still in situ.  The extension to the building on the south end of the north/south building was clearly visible, being set back off the line of the east wall, still with a slate roof but with no fancy ridge.  To the east of Strath Cottage there was an entrance to what had been Long Wall (see above), in what had been one long continuous wall between the Stable Block and Harts Hall Cottage/Cottages.

 

As a summary Strath Cottage was converted as a dwelling sometime between 1920 and 1925, being formerly the Stable Block originally constructed sometime between 1844 and 1875 for Harts Hall.  Within the grounds of Strath Cottage was a barn/cowshed, built between 1842 and 1875, as a replacement for the original barn and stable associated with Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) (see below).    

 

At least 2 Lost Properties have been identified within the grounds of Strath Cottage since its separation from Harts Hall c1925 and its demolition in 2009.

 

Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (Property J, L & N)

As established above, the original Harts Hall (J) is thought to have been constructed by 1601 (potentially earlier but definitely by 1642), being described as ‘a messuage or tenement called or recognised by the name Harts Hall and a garden, a barn, an orchard and certain land containing 5 acres lately enclosed from the waste’ (Imberhorne Court Records, AMS 5909/8, ESRO).  By 1711, the property consisted of ‘5 parcels of land …. west of the tenement called Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon’ the dwelling known as ‘Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon at Felbridge Water containing by estimation 5 acres of land being 5 acres inclosed of the waste of the manor of Imberhorne ….. and also a parcel of land of about 1 rod lying east of Harts Hall inclosed of the waste of the manor’.  This implies that sometime between 1642 and 1711 the Harts Hall plot had grown in size and was being run as inn under the sign of the Red Lyon.  By 1714, a stable had been added to the property and by 1783, the property was referred to as the single entity of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon and 10 acres.  The first depiction of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) is on the Bourd map of 1748, although it is simply depicted as a domestic building outside the bounds of the Evelyn estate. 

 

In 1751, Robert Knight took up the occupancy of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon, the property listed as ‘Robert Knight’s farm’.  However, as established above, it is known that he also operated a Carrier’s business from the premises until the early 1780’s.  The next depiction of Harts Hall alias the Red (J) is in 1768, during the occupancy of the Knight family, with the Rocque map depicting just a single structure on the site of the dwelling.  As a point of interest, Rocque does not depict very small dwellings or non domestic buildings so it is not known if the barn and stable were still standing, although reference to a barn is made in the Knight Carrier’s accounts and their horses would have been stabled.  The accounts give a snapshot of the life of an 18^th century Carrier’s business, confirming that it was operating from ‘Felbridge Water near East Grinstead’, written in the hand of  ‘Sarah Knight’ (potentially Robert’s wife Ann aka Sarah or daughter Sarah) with surviving account payments being recorded as received by various members of the Knight family including Ann, Sarah, Jonas, John and Robert, and there is even a ‘X’ referred to as ‘the mark of Robert Knight’ which may explain why various members of his family appear in the accounts.  The earliest entries are for the transportation of ‘gunns’ [cannons] from ‘Clutton & Coe’ of Gravetye, Masters Raby of ‘Warren Furnis’ (located in what is today Furnace Wood, Felbridge) and Mill Place (East Grinstead) to Woolwich and ‘Seaman’s Wharf’, as well as carrying ‘gunns with their heads’ from ‘Gravety Furnis to Warren Furnis’.  Other items were also carried such as timber to Vauxhall, coles (charcoal) from Woolwich and bark from Imber Hourn (Imberhorne), Haselden, Gottick (Gotwick) Barn and Cowden to Adams, Tanner of ‘Long Lane, London’ (Southwark), as well as arable seed (rye grass, clover, nonesuch, beans and peas), ‘hopes’ (hops) and cereals such as ‘ots’ (oats), ‘weat’ (wheat) and flour, more locally.  The records also have a numbers of entries that potentially relate to Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon as Robert Knight’s farm, listing him receiving ‘loades of ots’ and ‘weat’ as well as rye grass, all to keep his ‘team’ (referred to as 8 horses) in fine fettle.  Robert Knight used ‘Master [William] Wren’ [of Woodcock Forge] (for further information see Handout, Golards Farmhouse, SJC 11/07)) for shoeing, as well as delivering ‘coles’ and iron to him.

 

The following are a few extracts from the accounts giving an insight into the sort of work that Robert Knight carried out, particularly with reference to his farm at Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon:

1762       September: Sold to Master Hounsom 10 tegs (sheep in their second year) and 1 ‘youe’ (ewe?) of sheep @ 8 (illegible) for sheep

1763       June: Bought from Gravety (Gravetye) the maire (mare) and colt (a yearling)

1763       July: Fetched the oxen and steers (young neutered male cattle primarily raised for beef)

1764       July: Sold to Master Hounsom 2 stears (steers), £9 4s 6d

1768       Bought of Master Holcombe halfe a loade of ots that was pitched in our barn

1768       1 days work to Wakehurst with my team for timber to (Warren) Furnis for Mr Raby

                1 days work for Rovant (Rowfant) for timber to Furnis

                I days work with iron from Warren Furnis to Gravety

1769       January: Paid a man for 5 days work at 1d per day for mended the rode (road) – 5s 10d

1769       January: Master Ellot brought in 7 quarts of ots, £4 11/- and hops – 14 pounds, 16/-

1769       February: Fetched with my team 1 load of ots from Master Belton at Horn (Horne)

                Had of Master Dench 15 bushels of ots, 15/- and peas, 13s 6d and 4 bushels of nonesuch and clover, £1 15s

1769       July, had of Master Holeman 7 sacks of peas and had from Lynn at Turners Hill, 1 bushel and halfe of clover seed and nonesuch

1769       December: Gave to Mrs Cranston £1 13s

1770       Master Haley bought of me one barron (barren) cow (unable to reproduce) £5 10/-

1772       William Wren due to Robert Knight for beer, 4d

1775       January: Paid Master Turner (of Imberhorne) for oxen, £8

1775       Had of Mr Evelyn halfe a loade of ots and 5 quarts of ots

1776       June:      sold 5 steers, £15 15/-

                                sold 25 pounds ‘hopes’ @ 8, 18s 9d

                                sold 139 pounds of hops, £3 15/-

                                Total: £20 8s 9d

1777       July: sent the ‘browne guilding’ (brown castrated male horse) down to keeping

 

As can been seen, Robert Knight’s farm was a mixed farm, growing a variety of crops, mostly used for animal feed, although he still needed to buy-in fairly substantial quantities of oats.  He also bought in quantities of ‘hopes’ (hops), presumably for the brewing of ale sold at the Red Lyon.  Robert Knight also raised, or at least dealt in, cattle, sheep and horses and, it would appear that he not only used his horses for carrying but also for ‘timber tugging’, with his references of timber to various furnaces.  The mention of oxen could mean that he used them for farm work or even for heavy carting and there is a reference to the barn even though it was not depicted on the Rocque map.  Robert Knight also paid for the mending of the road, a very thoughtful gesture for would-be travellers’ en-route or passing Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon.  As a point of interest, the window tax of 1766, records that during Robert Knight’s occupation, Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon had 13 ‘lights’ (windows).  Window tax had been imposed in England in 1696 and was intended to be a progressive tax in that houses with a smaller number of windows, initially ten, were subject to a 2 shilling house tax but exempt from the window tax, whilst houses with more than ten windows were liable for additional taxes which increased in line with the number of windows.  Unfortunately, no definition of a window was included in the legislation and it was interpreted in such a way as to include the smallest of openings in any wall and in some cases even perforated grates in larders were charged as if they were a window.  However, in 1747 the way the window tax was calculated was altered.  6d was charged for each window in a house with 10–14, 9d for each window in a house with 15–19, 1s for every window in a house with 20 or more and in 1766, the tax was amended to include houses with seven or more windows.  For Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon to have 13 windows, taxed at £1 2s 6d, implies that it was a fairly substantial structure.

 

There are no surviving images of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) but cottages in the Felbridge/East Grinstead area dating to the early to mid 17^th century were typically timber framed, with wattle and daub infill and had a tiled or thatched roof.  As established above, it must have been a fairly substantial building in the mid 1700’s to warrant a 13-window tax.  By the 19^th century, the timber framing may well have been in-filled with brick or covered with either tile hanging or weather-boarding (or a mixture of both) to ensure a better level of weather protection.  If the roof had been thatched it is possible that as some point during its life it would have been re-roofed in tile.  Traditionally, the sign of the Red Lyon depicted a red lion, rampant.   

 

The next depiction of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) is on the Draft OS map of 1805/8, which shows the original structure (the messuage or house) on a northwest/northeast alignment and a second feature to its northwest, adjacent to the county boundary.  Turning to the census records, in 1841 Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) is potentially the third property after Harts Hall (A), which is listed in the occupation of George Groves aged 30 (no occupation given), along with his wife Margaret aged 30 and children Esther aged 10, George aged 8, Elizabeth aged 6 and Emma aged 4; George and Margaret were born outside of the county of Sussex but all 4 children were born in Sussex suggesting that the family moved to Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon around 1831. 

 

As established above, the depiction of Holding C on the 1842 East Grinstead tithe map shows, Harts Hall (A), a range of non-domestic buildings adjacent to what is now Copthorne Road, Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), with a north/south structure on the site of what became structures (L & N), in plot 2315, with a pond in front, adjacent to the county boundary.  The original dwelling Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), was depicted lying east/west, rectangular in shape with a small central range extending north on the front of the building.  To its west, on a similar alignment, was a rectangular structure (short sides north and south) and somewhat larger than the dwelling (replaced by structures (L & N) by 1873).  This structure to the west of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon is potentially the barn and stable referred to in 1642 and 1711, respectively.  To the north of this structure there is a rectangular pond with rounded corners abutting the county boundary (possibly the pond hinted at on the Draft 1805/8 OS map). 

 

By 1851, the Groves family had moved on and Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) was potentially in the occupation of agricultural labourer George Belton, aged 24, his wife Jane aged 22 and a daughter Anna aged 1.  George and Jane were both born in Horne in Surrey but Anna/Annie was born in East Grinstead suggesting that the George and Jane Belton moved to Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) sometime between their marriage in 1848 and the birth of their daughter Anna/Annie in 1850 (see Handout, Park Farm, JIC/SJC 05/16).  Previously we had placed the Belton family as living at Long Wall (D), which was a Shop and Premises at the time (see above), but on reinterpreting the census it would appear that they could not have been living at Long Wall as it was a single dwelling at that date.  In 1861, Harts Hall alias the Red (J) was in the occupation of Robert Brooker aged 41, gardener, with his wife Sarah aged 40 and their 5 children: Eliza aged 17, Grace aged 13, Frederick aged 8, Sarah A aged 5 and John T aged 3; all except John were born in Cambridgeshire, whereas John was born in East Grinstead implying the Brooker family moved to Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon between 1856 and 1858.  In 1871, the census potentially records William and Susannah Smith as occupying Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J).  Again, except for ‘Hartshall’ (A), all the dwellings in the vicinity are addressed as ‘Felbridge’, including those off Crawley Down Road.  William Smith was aged 27, a bricklayer, and his wife Susannah was 30, both having moved the area.  As a point of interest, William Smith may have potentially been brought in by the then owner of Harts Hall, William Ramsden Price, as map evidence suggests he invested heavily in the holding with several new structures appearing between 1842 and 1873.

 

The OS map of 1873 depicts a structure on the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), although slightly different in shape with a wider outshot on the front extending across the face of the dwelling to the east side.  The barn/stable, formerly on the east/west alignment with short north and south ends appears to have been replaced by two buildings (L & N) aligned north-south with a fenced off open area between them (M).  In 1878, the Deed map for the sale of Holding C to Charles Henry Gatty depicts a structure on the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), although it is not coloured red (domestic), but black suggesting it might by 1878 be a non-domestic building.  To its west there is a small strip of land before the two structures with an enclosure (L, M & N) on the same site and alignment as found on the 1873 map.  The closest structure (L) to Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) is depicted as a domestic building with a red roof, and the furthest structure (N) is depicted as a non-domestic building with a black roof.  Unfortunately the accompanying schedules do not refer specifically to the buildings within Holding C, simply listing them as ‘appurtenances’, ‘barn buildings’ or ‘lands called Harts Hall’.  The 1895 OS map still depicts three structures (J, L & N) on the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon.  However, by this date structure (I), the Stable Block built to serve Harts Hall, later converted as part of Strath Cottage (see above)) had been built abutting the structure on the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J).  The structures (L & N) with an enclosure between them are still shown to the west of the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J).  The 1911 map that accompanied the sale of Felbridge Place depicts the structure on the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) fully incorporated as part of the Stable Block (I) (later part of Strath Cottage (see above)), and there were still the two roofed structures to its west (L & N), described in the sale catalogues of 1911 and 1913 as a ‘timber-slated Cowshed for 11 cows, another timber and tiled Cowshed for 8 cows’.   However, the 1912 OS map does not depict a structure on the site of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) only the furthest roofed structure (N), that became incorporated within the grounds of Strath Cottage sometime between 1913 and 1926 (see above).

As a summary, Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) was probably built by 1601 (potentially earlier and definitely by 1642) and was used as a detached domestic building until sometime between 1871 and 1878, its last resident, according to census entries, potentially being William Smith in 1871 (see above).  Sometime between 1895 and 1910, Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), had been demolished and/or replaced by a building that became incorporated as part of the stabling associated with the more recently built Harts Hall (A).  The barn associated with Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon, first mentioned in 1642, and the stable, first mentioned in 1711, were both replaced sometime between 1842 and 1873 by another barn/cowshed (N) and a possible domestic structure, later a cow shed (L).  The enclosure (M) and potential domestic structure, later cow shed (L) had both disappeared by 1910, but the barn/cowshed (N) remained standing, being incorporated within the grounds of Strath Cottage sometime between 1913 and 1926 (see above). 

At least 3 Lost Properties have been identified associated with the  Hall alias the Red Lyon holding, the dwelling (J), the original barn and stable and the domestic structure, later cow shed (L), plus potentially a replacement building of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon.

 

Lales Ltd, formerly Lakes, before Felbridge Fire Station, before Harness Room and Coach-House (Property K) 

This building started life as the Harness Room and Coach-House built to serve Harts Hall (A), incorporating an enclosure or yard that had been built in the ‘gardens’ of the former Star Garden Cottage (O) plot (see below).  The full extent of the Harness Room and Coach-House appears between 1873 and 1895 (OS maps), and the first description appears in the 1911 and 1913 sale catalogues for the ‘Residential estate of Harts Hall’ as two of the ‘Model Buildings’: ‘Harness Room, large Coach House, suitable for Motor Garage’; quite an early reference to motor vehicles.  It is not known when the Harness Room and Coach-House sold, or who purchased them, but the most likely scenario is that the complex of outbuildings (Stable Block (I), Harness Room and Coach-House (K)) were bought as a complete entity for development as two dwelling houses.  As established above, the Stable Block was converted as a dwelling known as Strath Cottage (I) sometime between 1913 and 1926, but the Harness Room and Coach-House (K) were not converted, perhaps the First World War intervened and put a halt to the development.  

 

The single-storey Harness Room and Coach-House (K) were built of plain dark red brick under a slate roof with a fancy ridge tile that ran the full length of the roof, a continuation of that found on the adjoining Stable Block (I), later Strath Cottage.  The original arrangement for doors and windows is not known as there are no surviving images of it as a Harness Room and Coach-House (K).  However, a study of the building in 2009 revealed that the window and door in the north wall of the Harness Room (the eastern section of the building) had been cut in, however, the opening for the double doors in the Coach-House (the western section of the building) would appear to have been original build as none of the bricks had been cut, although the lime mortar stopped at least one brick away from the opening implying that some alterations had been made at a later date.  It seems likely that the Harness Room and Coach-House (K) were not being used at the outbreak of the Second War World as it became the Felbridge Fire Station during the war years.  As a point of interest, the premises address was ‘The Fire Station’ until Copthorne Road was numbered in the 1970’s when it became 11, Copthorne Road.

 

After the war, the Harness Room and Coach-House (K) were used by the local building firm of Lakes, between 1946 and the early 1960’s when they were taken over by another local the building company – Lale Ltd.  The building was then acquired by the owners of the adjoining building, Southways House, formerly the Felbridge (St John) Institute (see below) as additional storage for the Southways Presentation Print Company until the property, along with Southways House and Strath Cottage (I), was purchased by developers in 2009, being demolished and replaced by Mulberry Gate (see above).

 

2 Lost Property has been identified since the area’s separation from Harts Hall c1925 and their demolition in 2009.

 

Southways House, formerly Felbridge (St John) Institute

Southways House was originally the Felbridge (St John) Institute built in 1923/4 on the Surrey side of the county boundary on what had been the garden of Star Garden Cottage (O) as identified in the 1844 Godstone tithe (see above).  The Felbridge (St John) Institute was situated on the south side of Copthorne Road, designed by Harry C R Nightingale of East Grinstead (for further information see Handout, Builders and Architects of Felbridge, Pt. 3, SJC 03/19) and built by Messrs. T and G Smith of East Grinstead.  It was opened on 19^th March 1924, and although the building was not strictly speaking a War Memorial, the Felbridge community were urged at its opening not to ‘forget in their gladness’, the men who left Felbridge and never returned.  It should be remembered that at the time, the events of the First World War were still very fresh in people’s memories and it is estimated that Felbridge had lost 2 in every 9 males who were eligible for war service (for further information see Handout, War Memorials of St John the Divine, SJC 07/02v), so it would seem fitting to dedicate the new Institute to their memory.

 

The building was rectangular in design, built of red brick under a roof of large square grey asbestos tiles set at a 45 degree angle, with two large and two smaller Crittall-type windows set with cottage-style panes in both the front and back walls.  There is evidence to suggest that the main entrance was originally through a central door under a small gabled porch in the front north facing wall.  From map evidence, and later newspaper articles, there was originally a small kitchen attached to the rear of the Institute and in 2008 there was still a small platform of red brick (the same as the main building) adjoining the back wall.  There were only three surviving courses of the old brickwork with new brickwork above suggesting that when the Institute was extended in 1958 the original kitchen walls were demolished and re-built in the same brick as the rest of the extension.

 

The front and back walls of the Institute had projecting brick piers symmetrically placed to give enough strength for the single skin brick wall to support the roof.  Along the ridge of the roof, and dividing the length roughly in thirds, were what appear to be two chimneystacks.  These may have had some connection with an early heating system, possibly two free-standing coal/coke boilers, or may have been for ventilation.  The Institute appears to have been designed to blend in with the existing building to the east that had originally been part of the Stable Block, Harness Room and Coach-House complex that belonged to Harts Hall (for further information see Handout, Harts Hall, SJC 07/05), with its dark red brick walls, cottage style windows and grey roof.  The interior decoration consisted of a dado rail with dark paint below and white or light paint above.  Heating, by the 1940’s, had been free-standing gas-fired radiators; later six hanging gas heaters were fitted to the ceiling, three on each side of the hall.  The original kitchen was very basic with just a cooker and a sink and drainer situated under a window in its east wall next to a door leading out to the rear of the building and later to the new extension that was built in 1958 creating the addition of a new kitchen and committee room on the south side, built wholly in Sussex (not the work of Harry C R Nightingale), named the Coronation Rooms in commemoration of the coronation of Elizabeth II.  The Felbridge (St John) Institute remained the social hub of the Felbridge community until it was replaced by the Village Hall in Crawley Down Road in 1965 (for further information see Handout, Felbridge Village Halls, SJC 01/12). 

 

On its sale, Felbridge (St John) Institute was used initially as a warehouse, as permission to build houses on the site had been refused by the East Grinstead Rural District Council.  It then spent much of its remaining life as Southways House, a storage unit for Southways Presentation Print Company until the site, along with Strath Cottage (I), adjoining the rear of the Institute grounds, and the former builders’ premises adjoining, were purchased by property developers in 2009, being demolished and replaced by Mulberry Gate (see above).

 

Just the 1 Lost Property has been identified since the area’s separation from Harts Hall c1925 and the demolition of Southways House in 2009.

 

Star Garden Cottage (Property O)

The cottage was built on Felbridge Heath, on the Surrey side of the county boundary but held by the manor of Imberhorne who held the grazing rights over the Common.  This property has been named Star Garden Cottage for the purposes of this document as it stood within the area as detailed in the beating of the bounds of Godstone in 1794:

Chestnut Walk	Keep to the middle of this Horse Road by 7 Chestnut tree way
The Road to the Starr	To the Garden (Before the house) Go along by the bottom of StarGarden and under the Felbridge

(P25/18/1, SHC)

 

There is a potential reference to the property in 1693 as part of an encroachment of land belonging to the manor of Imberhorne made by Mary Carr, who held Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), George Evelyn of Felbridge House (probably Heath Hatch, later known as the Star Inn) and Richard Cooper, who were ordered to pay a fine for the ‘incroachment’ (ADA 106, ESRO).  However, the property does not appear in the Evelyn estate on the 1748 Bourd map, and unlike Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J), it is not depicted on the map, possibly implying that the building was of lesser importance in the area.  A structure on the site of Star Garden Cottage (O) potentially appears on the Rocque map of 1768 being depicted amongst the dots and dashes of the county boundaries of Sussex and Surrey, abutting what has become known as Copthorne Road.  Unfortunately, due to its position so close to the boundary, and probably because it was held of the Sussex manor of Imberhorne, the cottage appears to have been frequently overlooked in most historical documents.  There does not appear to be any conclusive reference to the cottage in the historical documents of the manor of Imberhorne or the manor of Lagham that held the Surrey side of the county boundary prior to the area being incorporated as part of the Felbridge estate of the Evelyn family (for further information see Handout Evelyn family of Felbridge, JIC/SJC09/13), nor does it appear in any surviving Evelyn documents (1588-1856) or in any census records except perhaps 1871 (see below).  However, the cottage does appear on the Draft OS map of 1805/8 to the northwest of Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon (J) and the property had potentially joined Holding C by 11^th September 1838 as the Abstract of title for Harts Hall alias the Red Lyon records a document for the following as part of Schedule 1: ‘…And also all that piece or parcel of land formerly and enclosed from the waste of the Manor of Imberhorne called Felbridge Heath in the parish of East Grinstead aforesaid containing by estimation 3 acres more or less abutting and bounding by the said lands called Harts Hall on the South by the Highway leading from Felbridge towards Crawley Down on the North and on the East and West by the said Common called Felbridge Heath…’ (Abstract of title, Box 3151, SHC).

 

Star Garden Cottage is also on the Godstone tithe map of 1844, the apportionment listing the holding as ‘owned’ by Richard Hawes (see above) in the tenancy of Thomas Walker, (son of Edward and Elizabeth Walker see above)), consisting of:

 

 

Notes in the tithe apportionment detail that the property was a copyhold of the Felbridge estate, with ‘Sayer’ as a later owner (a cousin of Charles Henry Gatty who inherited the Felbridge estate on his death in 1903, for further information see Handout, Dr. Charles Henry Gatty, SJC 09/03).

In 1859, Richard Hawes was listed for a ‘cottage and land’ (possibly Star Garden Cottage (O)) and a ‘house’, although the amount of tax to be paid had been left blank (Land Tax Records ADD MSS 18419, WSRO).  However, there is no conclusive evidence for the dwelling in either the 1861 East Grinstead or Godstone census records although there is potential evidence that the cottage was still standing in 1871 as the enumerator for the Godstone census indicated that there was a dwelling (crossed through) between Park Lodge (later South Lodge, now Stone Croft, 58, Copthorne Road) and the Star Inn ‘Publick House’.  The entry in question, schedule no. 12, was crossed through and had the note  ‘not in Parish’ written against it; perhaps another example of the property being overlooked because of its location so close to the Surrey/Sussex boundaries, but equally the reference could have been aimed at Harts Hall Cottage (D) (see above).  However, the 1873 OS map does not show Star Garden Cottage (O), the site of the dwelling depicted as trees, although the map does depict the three separate plots that made up the 1844 description (garden, cottage and gardens and common field).  The eastern section, ‘gardens’, is depicted abutting the Stable Block (I) for Harts Hall (see above) and is either built upon or is an enclosed space or yard; the potential building being later incorporated as part of the Stable Block (I).

 

Just the 1 Lost Property has been identified on this holding.

 

Shirley Cottage, 17, Copthorne Road & Hovercraft Ltd, Manufacturing Premises, formerly Felbridge Livery Yard, before Muggeridge’s Stables, before Felbridge Riding School

The plot developed as Shirley Cottage straddled the Surrey/Sussex county boundary with the northern section being part of the western end of plot 259 of the 1844 Godstone tithe holding (referred to in this document as Star Garden Cottage (O) (see above)) in Surrey, together with part of nearly 3 acres of land in Sussex, formerly part of plot 2317 on the East Grinstead tithe; the whole being part of Holding C, as established above.  In 1911 and 1913, the plot was put up for auction as part of the ‘Residential estate of Harts Hall’ (see above) by the East Grinstead Estate Company Ltd and on 20^th February 1919 the plot was sold to Ernest Waters.  It has not yet been possible to determine whether Ernest Waters purchased just the aforementioned plot or whether it was part of a larger extent.  By 1923, Shirley Cottage had been built and was in the occupation of Christine Jenifer Edmonds (East Sussex Electoral Roll), although she would appear to have been renting the property from Ernest Waters as on 25^th January 1934, he sold it to Walter Basil Young (Tandridge/Mid Sussex Planning) who lived there with his wife Rosamund Monica née Brookes, and his mother Flora Helena Young née Bevis, before moving to Coulsdon, Surrey by 1936 (East Sussex and Surrey Electoral Rolls). 

 

Between 1936 and 1937, Vivian and Doris Wood were recorded as living at ‘Shirley’, the address given as Crawley Down Road, together with Margaret Elizabeth Wyllie (East Sussex Electoral Roll).  In 1936, Kendrick White Marstand and his mother Emma White Marstrand were living at Shirley Cottage having moved back to the Felbridge area after previously living at Strath Cottage in 1934 (see above).  In 1936, the East Sussex Electoral Roll also records that one Eric Cummerford was residing at Shirley, having established a Riding Stables on the property.  Like many of the previously mentioned properties that straddle the county boundary, Shirley Cottage appears in documents of both Surrey and Sussex and between 1937 and 1939, the Surrey Electoral Roll records Roy Fawcett Bragg and his recently married wife Lillian née Slater as occupying Shirley, whilst the East Sussex Electoral Roll records in 1937 and 1938 that Vivian Cecil Honeywood and is wife Doris née Grinham were living there, and George Fowler in 1939.  The East Sussex Electoral Roll also records that Felbridge Riding Stables, which operated from the large open area behind Shirley Cottage, was in the occupation of Margaret Elizabeth Wyllie (mentioned above) in 1938 and 1939, whose abode was Flodden House, Yew Lane, East Grinstead.  In 1939, Shirley was in the occupation of Sarah Mitchell, Winifred Maud Foulsham and Violet Trimm who lived there throughout the war years.  It has not yet been established whether they were all residing at the cottage or occupied the stables, but it is known that the FelbridgeRidingSchool was operating from the property by Nita Ransford, whose abode was listed as 103, Gipsy Hill, London, SE19. 

 

By 1942, members of the Muggeridge family had moved to Shirley from Dingle Dell on Hophurst Hill, Crawley Down; the family consisting of Arthur John Muggeridge and his wife Ellen née Leavy and sons Dennis Brian Muggeridge and Francis [Frank] Menin Muggeridge (East Sussex Electoral Roll).  They must have initially occupied the stables as in 1945 Charles and Evelyn Standish were also recorded as living at Shirley.  In 1946, Brian Muggeridge married Una Amy Bishop and Una joined the household and in 1948, Francis married Sheila Godsmark and she too joined the Muggeridge family at Shirley.  Francis had been an apprentice jockey to Tom Wall (a jockey, actor, trainer, businessman who died in 1949) and family members recall that Francis [Frank] Muggeridge was quite a successful jockey in the early 1950’s but due to injuries sustained, became a trainer in 1956.  The East Sussex Electoral Roll records that in 1954 Arthur John Muggeridge and his wife Ellen and daughter-in-law Sheila had been joined by Phillipa Skailes at Shirley and in 1955, Phyllis Jones had replaced Phillipa Skailes.  In 1956, Francis had moved back to the family home and after the death of Arthur John in 1957, only Francis and Sheila Muggeridge were living at Shirley, running Felbridge Livery Yard between 1957 and 1961, before relocating to the Coronation Stables at Crabbet Park, near Crawley and then moving to the County Stables at Lewes Race Course by 1969 until Francis’ retirement in about 1975. 

 

It is known that sometime after the Muggeridge’s departure, the stables and yard area behind the dwelling was used to produce component parts for the manufacture of hovercraft.  Initial planning approval in 1982 was refused but in 1983 permission was granted and local residents remember seeing small hovercraft being driven round the field behind Shirley Cottage.  Unfortunately it has not yet been possible to determine who lived in Shirley after the Muggeridges, but the hovercraft business – Hovercraft Ltd began operating from the site in 1985, with its registered office listed as Ye Old Felbridge Hotel, then under Gatward ownership (for further information see Eating & Drinking Establishments of Felbridge, Pt 1, SJC 05/07).  In 1995, the offices moved to Place Campbell & Co, Wilmington House, High Street, East Grinstead.  However in 2000, by which time the dwelling had been renamed Shirley Cottage, it was put up for sale as a ‘Freehold bungalow’ although by November of 2000, the property was up for rent, the local newspaper describing it as:

 

FELBRIDGE 2 BEDROOMS

Unusual cottage with open plan living area and spiral staircase to first floor bedroom and bathroom.  Second bedroom and bathroom on the ground floor.  Fitted kitchen.

(Local Newspaper)

 

The accompanying photograph shows a single storey, chalet style dwelling with a front facing wing, extending from the east half of the bungalow.  The walls are white painted render with red brick detailing around the windows.  It has a tiled roof with a chimneystack in the gable point of the front facing wing.

 

In 2011, still under Gatward ownership, the registered company office of Hovercraft Ltd moved to Yew Tree House, Lewes Road, Forest Row and in 2012, outline planning consent was sought for the development of Shirley Cottage and grounds.  In 2019, on the 5^th August, the property suffered a minor fire and in October 2019, Shirley Cottage and grounds were sold for development.  However, it was not until 2022/3 that the site was developed as 26 assorted 3- to 6-bedroomed dwellings off Martins Mead and Birches View.

 

At least 6 Lost Properties have been identified on this holding, including Shirley Cottage and at least 5 outbuildings attached to the stable yard/hovercraft manufacturing premises.

 

Beechwood & 11a, Crawley Down Road

As with all the aforementioned properties, the sites of Beechwood and 11a, Crawley Down Road, were all part of Holding C, being incorporated as part of Harts Hall by 1838 (see above) and put up for auction in 1911 and 1913 as part of the ‘Residential estate of Harts Hall (Felbridge Place sale catalogues and maps).  In 1911 and 1913, Beechwood and 11a, Crawley Down Road were part of field 233 in Godstone on the Surrey side of the county boundary and part of field 8 on the Sussex side of the county boundary, bounded by the Copthorne Road on the north, the Crawley Down Road on the northwest, the track to Birches Cottage on the west, the Felbridge Water on the south and the plot that became developed as Shirley Cottage and stabling on the east.  The Beechwood and 11a, Crawley Down Road plot consisted of about 3½ acres, enclosed off the waste called Felbridge Heath, held by the manor of Imberhorne.

 

In 1913, the 3½ acres site was purchased by Jonah John Sinden (known as John) and in 1921, John Sinden and his family were living in an ex-Police hut that they had re-located to the site, naming it Beechwood (East Sussex Electoral Roll).  Jonah John Sinden had been born in Warbleton, Sussex, in 1867, the son of Levi Sinden (1837-1908), a farmer, and his wife Emily Mary née Catt (1838-1894).  John married Martha Annie Pope (known as Annie) in Hailsham in 1894, and they had 6 children including: Helen (known as Nellie) born in 1900, Florence Jane (known as Flo) born in 1902, Doris Grace (known as Grace) born in 1904, George Alfred (known as Alf) born in 1905, William John (known as John) born in 1909 and Ralph Stuart born in 1915.  By 1901, John was a Police Constable and the Sinden family were living at the Police Station, Patcham, Sussex, before moving to East Grinstead by 1911 where John took up the position of Police Constable for East Grinstead, living at 20, Durkins Road and then at 16, North End, Felbridge, before moving to Albany Cottage, Crawley Down Road by 1920 (East Sussex Electoral Roll). 

 

The dwelling stood on the site of the 2-storey house, still known as Beechwood, at what is today 11, Crawley Down Road.  From photographs, the original Beechwood was a single storey, gabled dwelling made totally of timber, with timber cladding under a roof of large square pinky coloured flat asbestos tiles.  It was about 80ft (24m) long, set on an east/west alignment, well back from the Crawley Down Road.  It had two brick chimneystacks set about 10ft (3m) in at each end of the ridge.  Also on the ridge of the roof was a centrally set small pot-bellied vent.  The rear of the building had 5 large windows and 2 smaller ones, the arrangement mirrored on the front of the building, with a front and back door.  John Sinden kept a few cows on his holding as seen in the photographs and as described by neighbour Lucy Wells of Birches Cottage: ‘… on the other side of the track lived our nearest neighbour.  Mr Sinden owned two cows and a small-holding of four acres.  Claiming that his cows yielded more milk if sung to them he greeted each crack of dawn with basso profundo renderings of Handel’s Messiah which he and the cows might have enjoyed but nobody else did…’ (Sunshine and Shadows by Lucy Wells).  As a point of interest, during the war years army vehicles were often parked up at the rear of Beechwood and it was also the location of an ack ack gun (Documented memories of Peter Sinden, FHA). 

 

In the mid 1930’s John Sinden appears to have purchased the land to the west of Shirley Cottage (see above) (now developed as nos. 25-35 (odd numbers only) Copthorne Road (East Sussex Electoral Roll), although technically on the Surrey side of the county boundary); the last entry for this piece of land being in the ownership of John Sinden was in 1945.  He also purchased other plots around Felbridge including the site of what is today called Wheelers Way, the field that is now Felbridge School Playing Field (gifted to the school) and a piece of land off the London Road in Felbridge, just north of the house that is today called Oak View.  Over time all the houses and bungalows between the Crawley Down Road junction and Beechwood were built (all within the Beechwood holding) for each of John Sinden’s six children: no.1, Crawley Down (Sunningdale), where in 1932 son William John and his wife Olive Jennie née Butcher were residing until at least the mid 1990’s; no.3 (The Lilacs), for daughter Florence and her husband Percy Leonard Agates who married in 1929; no.5 (Miramichi) for Grace and her husband Edward Harold Bingham (known as Ted) who married in 1927 (for further information see Handout, The Binghams of Felbridge & the Bingham Diary, SJC 01/05), no.7 (Amberstone) for Nellie who married [as Annie Helen] Jack D Pentecost in 1922, and no.9 (Myrtleford), built by 1949 for Ralph and his wife Dora Gwendolyn née Jackson (Documented memories of Di Sinden & Mark Heselden, FHA).

 

In 1950, Annie Sinden died, followed by John Sinden in 1959 and their daughter Florence, with her husband Percy Leonard Agates, moved to Beechwood.  In 1965, an application was made by the Agates to Tandridge District Council for the demolition of part of the existing house on the Beechwood holding, for the erection of a bungalow and garage, but this was not determined.  However, in 1979, they received approval for a new access road at 11, Crawley Down Road and by 1982, Beechwood had been reduced in length by about a quarter and a bungalow (no. 11a, Crawley Down Road) had been built adjacent to it, occupied by Percy and Florence’s daughter Ann and her husband Edward W Hillman (Surrey Electoral Roll).  11a, Crawley Down Road was a single storey, 2 bedroom, ranch style bungalow, built of brick under a pan tile roof and set well back off the Crawley Down Road, in line with Beechwood on a north/south alignment.  The Hillmans sold the bungalow in 2011.    

 

In August 2000, the reduced sized Beechwood was put on the market described as: ‘a single building site extending to about quarter an acre with outline planning consent to demolish the existing rustic bungalow and erect a replacement detached house situated in a pleasant position opposite the Felbridge village green’. The property stood empty over winter and by spring the front garden had become wild heath land/common once again, displaying a wonderful collection of pale pink Pyramid Orchids (Anacamptis pyramidalis), Oxeye Daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) and yellow Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus).  In April 2001, an application was granted by Tandridge District Council for the demolition of the ‘existing bungalow [Beechwood] and the erection of a 4-bedroom detached house’ and by June 2001 the old wooden bungalow was no more, replaced by a large detached house, retaining the name Beechwood.  In  2019, 11a, Crawley Down Road and the remainder of land in West Sussex (formerly part of the Beechwood holding as established by John Sinden in 1913) was sold to developers and in November 2019 approval was granted by Tandridge District Council for the demolition of existing property at 11a, Crawley Down Road and the erection of a 2-storey, 2-bedroom, detached dwelling house, along with the associated construction of a new access road off Crawley Road Down in Surrey as part of the wider development of 32 dwellings in West Sussex, now known as Sinden Heath.

 

2 Lost Properties and associated buildings have been identified on this holding, Beechwood that stood between 1921 and 2001 and 11a, Crawley Down Road that was built within its grounds.

 

Bibliography & Further Reading

Handout, Lost Property of Felbridge, Pt.1, JIC/SJC 07/18, FHWS

Handout, Lost Property of Felbridge, Pt.2, JIC/SJC 07/19, FHWS

Handout, Lost Property of Felbridge, Pt.3, JIC/SJC 10/21, FHWS

Handout, Lost Property of Felbridge, Pt.4, JIC/SJC 09/22, FHWS

Texts of Handouts referred to in this document can be found on FHG website: www.felbridge.org.uk

JIC/SJC 09/23