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Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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nthe room is a cupboard with a very fine old Gothicdoorway. The principal rooms on the first floor areceiled at a pitch of about 10 or 11-ft., on a level withthe tie beams, but on an inspection of the roof a secondceiling is disclosed level with the collars, and running upto the collars on the rafters. It appears, therefore, thatthe present ceiling was put in at a later date than thebuilding of the house, and as originally planned the kingposts were exposed, and the rooms had a pitch of about14-ft. To-day the largest house in the parish is undoubtedly11 Loxwood House/ situated on the eastern side of themain road (formerly the turnpike) leading through theparish, and now the property of Mrs. Prioleau. Thisestate was centuries ago known by the name of Great-house, and was owned by the Threeles, from whom,about the year 1600, it passed into the hands of theKings, in whose hands it remained for over 300 years,when, towards the close of the nineteenth century, it r GREATHOUSE—as in 1770.
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LOXWOOD HOUSE, 1913. STORIES OF LOXWOOD. 167 was sold and ultimately passed into the hands of itspresent possessor. Opposite is a picture taken from a photograph, c. 1840,of the house as it was as far back as 1770, and below isa photograph of the house as it is to-day. On this estate there formerly existed a glass factory.The site of this is shown on Speeds Map of Sussex of1610. Glass factories formerly existed in Sussex atKirdford, Wisborough Green, Brede, Beckley and Rye,but the only one shown on Speeds Map is the one atLoxwood. There is a wood on the Loxwood HouseEstate corresponding in site with the glass housemarked on Speeds Map, and which is still called Glasshouse Wood. As far as the wood is concernedit was planted by one of the Kings in the last century,but probably that is the site of the old glass house byreason of the similarity of the names. The Threel family held the estate of Greathouse, butas far as can be seen from the title deeds, to which Ihave had access, the old m

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