| Our Village, written and published by The Rotherfield History Research Group in 1979 |
| Spout Farm - This is a picturesque timbered house at Town Row some 350 years old. Before the Heathfield line was built in 1880, the lane from Townrow Green went through the farm lands, fording the stream in two places with a wooden footway for pedestrians to cross the stream. Spout Farm took its name from the spring above whose overflow passed through its stockyard, as it does still thro' the garden of the restored farmhouse. Many years ago the spring was an open pool by the lane side with a covered dipping place. from Our Village, written and published by The Rotherfield History Research Group in 1979 |
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| The Workhouse - Before the Act of 1834 did away with the small village workhouses and created the Unions, the row of houses between the entrance to Court Meadow and the DIY shop, with other buildings since pulled down where the blacksmith's yard is, was the old workhouse. An outer door high up in the side of the end house abutting on the yard, which was reached by an outside stair only removed within the last half century or so, was that of the Relieving Room, where, as well as the ordinary parochial relief, the Fermor Dole was in the past distributed, which was mainly corn. The dress of the old men inmates was a smock frock and straw hat and there was a special pew in St. Denys, since taken away, where the pauper men and women sat. from Our Village, written and published by The Rotherfield History Research Group in 1979 |
| The Three Gunns - Though no longer an inn but a greengrocers, the quaint chimneys of this old house in the High Street proclaims its former use and sign, 'The Three Gunns'. Its chimney stack takes the shape of three hooped cannon of the 15th or early 16th century, to which the old house belongs. It is a relic of the vanished iron industry of the district and the days when guns for the King's navy were founded at Hugget's Furnace and many other foundry in the neighbourhood. 'The Gunn' was then a frequent sign for Sussex village inns. The brickwork of four hundred years ago may be seen in the interior of this ancielnt dwelling. The earliest date at which it can be identified in the Court Rolls is 1671, from which time its ownership is traced without a break till the Rolls end in 1814. It was held as a copyhold from 1671 to 1774 from Our Village, written and published by The Rotherfield History Research Group in 1979 |
| Hugget's Furnace - This is the name of an old farmstead remote among green meadows beside the beginnings of the Ouse in the valley between Rotherfield and Hadlow Down, though the blast furnaces have been long extinct, the hammers silent and the slag heaps buried under woodland growth or furrowed field. In this beautiful spot when Henry VIII was king the first English iron cannon was cast as Holinshed records by Ralph Hogg or Huggett, a notable iron-master of Buxted. Hogg built himself a house in Buxted Park, known from his rebus on its front as the 'Hogg House' to this day, but his works were here [Hugget's Furnace], and here his foreman Jack Johnson, lived. Both are commemorated in the old rhyme: "Master Huggett and his man John They did cast the first cannon." Near the old timbered farmhouse is the mill with its iron wheel. Across the road is the 'hammer pond' with fragments of its ancient sluices which in Tudor times provided the motive power for what was one of the most important gun foundries in England from Our Village, written and published by The Rotherfield History Research Group in 1979 |
| The Post Office and Tudor House were occupied in the 19th century by a Mr King and was a considerable emporium purveying all manner of goods including groceries, wines, furniture, drapery and times pieces of every description. The canopied forecourt is a delightful nostalgic reminder of times long past. from Our Village, written and published by The Rotherfield History Research Group in 1979 |
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