Hangleton Manor

The manor of Hangleton has Saxon origins. At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, it was owned by William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey and held by another Norman nobleman, William de Wateville. The parish of Hangleton covered 1120 acre of the South Downs northwest of Brighton, The village suffered depopulation in the medieval period (perhaps because of greater enclosure for sheep farming, a fire or, most likely, the Black Death). A survey in 1603 recorded only one house in the parish (other than Hangleton Manor and another manor house at Benfields, towards the southwest corner of the parish), and as late as 1931 the population was only 109. until in 1538 it came into the possession of…

Hangleton Manor Inn's 15th- and 16th-century origins make it Hove's oldest secular building. Hangleton Manor's buildings are of plain (mostly knapped) flint with some stone and ashlar dressings and quoins. (1560s) at Glynde, near Lewes. The buildings and their grounds are sunk into a sheltered hollow in the undulating downland, which allowed a wide range of plants to be grown when it was still a farm. The Old Manor House part of the building is a two-storey wing with eight bays and a series of regularly spaced windows (all 20th-century replacements of the older windows inserted during the 16th-century rebuilding work) with either square or Tudor arch heads. The west end has a gable. The…

Hangleton Manor and the Old Manor House were jointly listed at Grade II* on 8 November 1956. As of February 2001, they formed one of 70 Grade II*-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove. The dovecote was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 24 March 1950.