ALB-Historic England-Rape of Hastings Historic Buildings (360G-cabinetoffice-GA-125266)

The Rape of Hastings is an area within eastern Sussex located within the heavily wooded and undulating High Weald that includes 36 rural parishes and four towns. In terms of domestic architecture the study area is representative of the historical houses which survive over a large part of the counties of Kent and East and West Sussex. Collectively the surviving historic houses and farm buildings of the region form a nationally important concentration and make an important contribution to the areas distinctive character. The project involves the analysis, synthesis and publication of a large sample of domestic buildings of pre-1750 date within the Rape of Hastings. It is now entering its final phase and the project outputs comprise four stand-alone reports (rural houses, houses within the historic villages and houses within the towns of Battle and Hastings), a synthetic monograph that will characterise the nature of the rural, village and town houses through time and provide an overview of the entire historical domestic building stock in the study area and an integrated on-line database.