Holmshurst Manor

Holmshurst lies north of Burwash Common, near Witherenden Hill, and is surrounded by farm land. The house is built of brick with stone dressings and has twenty rooms and seven bedrooms. It features a tiled roof, clustered chimneys, stone fireplaces, stained glass windows, oak paneling and a gallery seventy feet in length.{{cite web |url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/allan-fea/picturesque-old-houses-being-the-impressions-of-a-wanderer-off-the-beaten-track-ala/page-4-picturesque-old-houses-being-the-impressions-of-a-wanderer-off-the-beaten-track-ala.shtml|title=Picturesque old houses; being the impressions of a wanderer off the beaten track|access-date=26 October 2011}} Daltrey maintained the Jacobean style of the house, but also installed a sauna and Persian carpets.{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20065951,00.html|date=15 December 1975|work=People Magazine | volume= 4 |issue= 24|title=Who Is No Longer the Question|first1=Fred|last1=Hauptfuhrer|first2=Jim|last2=Jerome|access-date=26 October 2011}} In the mid-1970s Daltrey designed and built Lakedown Fishery on the manor farm,{{cite web |url=http://www.lakedowntroutfishery.co.uk|title=Lakedown Trout Fishery|access-date=26 October 2011}} and also installed a recording studio in one of the barns.

The grounds include a number of outbuildings, including two oast houses, meant for roasting hops as part of the process for brewing beer, and a granary which Daltrey converted to a garage. The manor house, oast houses and granary are listed as Grade II historical structures by English Heritage. Two cottages on the property are also listed at Grade II.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/east+sussex/burwash|title=Listed Buildings in Burwash, East Sussex, England|access-date=25 October 2011}}

Image:Oast House at Holmshurst Manor, Witherenden Hill, East Sussex - geograph.org.uk - 1317996.jpg

Holmshurst Manor was originally built by Goddard Hepden (Hebden) in 1610 and bears his initials "GH" carved in a coat-of-arms on the lintel.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/aspectsofenglish00tyac|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/aspectsofenglish00tyac/page/97 97]|quote=holmshurst burwash.|title=Aspects of English Protestantism, c. 1530-1700|publisher=Manchester University Press|author=Tyacke, Nicholas|year=2001|access-date=26 October 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hebden/burwash.html|title=Hebden of Burwash|access-date=26 October 2011}} Hepden was born in Burwash in about 1550, the son of John Hepden and Joan Wenham. He married Anne Frye, born in about 1552 in Ringmer, the daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Frye. The couple married in around 1580 and raised twelve children.{{cite web |url=http://www.mandywillard.co.uk/surnames/hepden/goddard_1550.htm|title=Goddard Hepden (c1550-1633)and Anne Frye (c1552-1641)|access-date=25 October 2011}}

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• [http://theweald.org/m13.asp?PicIdto=9903237 Holmshurst in 1869]
• [http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/2b2b03bd.html?ixsid=QOiOYwS2vQB Conway Collections photo]
• [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20065951,00.html Holmshurst in People Magazine, 1975]
• [http://www.lakedowntroutfishery.co.uk Lakedown Trout Fishery]
• [http://theweald.org/P2.asp?Pid=Br.Hhurst Census data for Holmshurst]

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Category:History of East Sussex

Category:Country houses in East Sussex

Category:Jacobean architecture in the United Kingdom

Category:Houses completed in 1610

Category:Grade II listed buildings in East Sussex

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Category:1610 establishments in England

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