Highdown Gardens

Lewes Castle & Barbican House Museum

Lewes’s imposing Norman castle offers magnificent views across the town and surrounding downland. Barbican House, towered over by the Barbican Gate, is home to an interesting museum of local history and archaeology. A superb scale model of Victorian Lewes provides the centrepiece of a 25 minute audio-visual presentation telling the story of the county town of Sussex. Lewes Castle reopened to the…

Michelham Priory

Enter through the 14th-century gatehouse and wander through beautiful gardens or tour the historic house. Furniture and artefacts trace the property’s religious origins and its development over 800 years to a grand country house. Explore the medieval watermill, working forge, rope museum and dramatic Elizabethan Great…

Pallant House Gallery

Museum of the Year 2007, Pallant House Gallery houses one of the best collections of…

Parham House & Gardens

One of the top twenty in Simon Jenkins’s book "England’s Thousand Best Houses", Parham is one of the country’s finest Elizabethan examples. Idyllically set in the heart of a 17th century deer park, below the South Downs, the house contains a particularly important collection of needlework, paintings and furniture. The spectacular Long Gallery is the third longest in England. The award winning gardens include a four acre walled garden with stunning herbaceous borders, greenhouse, orchard, potager and herbiary. All the flowers used in the house are home grown. Parham has always been a much-loved family home. Now owned by a charitable trust, the house is…

Petworth Cottage Museum

A Leconfield Estate Cottage as if it were 1910, when Mary Cummings lived here. A nostalgic and educational reconstruction that takes account of living memories, Mary’s Irish Catholic background and her work as a seamstress. The…

Preston Manor

A delightful Manor House which powerfully evokes the atmosphere of an Edwardian gentry home both ‘upstairs’ and ‘downstairs’. Explore more than twenty rooms over four floors - from the servants’ quarters, kitchens and butler’s pantry in the basement to the attic bedrooms and nursery on the top…

The Priest House

Once a yeoman farmer’s cottage, the 15th century timber-framed house, sits in the picturesque Wealden village of West Hoathly. Standing in a traditional cottage garden, it now contains country furniture, ironwork, textiles and domestic objects displayed in period rooms. The garden…

Sackville College

Built in 1609 for Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as an almshouse and overnight accommodation for the Sackville family. Feel the Jacobean period come alive in the enchanting quadrangle, the chapel, banqueting hall with fine hammerbeam roof and minstrels gallery, the old common room and…

Saint Hill Manor

Built in 1792 by Gibbs Crawfurd, Saint Hill Manor is one of Sussex’s finest sandstone buildings, with breathtaking views of unspoiled countryside. Impressive features include the magnificent black Spanish marble pillars added by the Maharajah of Jaipur, and the delightful 100-foot Monkey Mural, painted by Winston Churchill’s nephew. The final owner, author L Ron Hubbard, bought the Manor in 1959 and made it his family home, restoring much of the oak panelling and marble fireplaces. An impressive collection of Mr. Hubbard’s published works is displayed in the library. There are 59…