Buckwell Place

Rev. Robert Hare. of the Hare family who owned nearby Herstmonceux Castle, built the original wing of the house in 1792 as a rectory for himself. His nephew Julius Charles Hare later occupied the house and extended it in 1833, constructing a parlour wing and bedroom above. He also built a domed conservatory between the original wing and the new parlour wing. Hare's German books were later bequeathed to Trinity College, Cambridge. The writer Augustus Hare was adopted by his aunt Maria Hare, the widowed sister-in-law of Julius Hare, and brought up at Lime House, near the rectory. He wrote about his childhood experiences at the rectory in his autobiography, The Story of My Life (1896–1900).…