Wharf Cottage
Introduction
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Wharf Cottage
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 2 Jun 2012
Located on Lewes Road at the northern end of Piddinghoe and dating from the 18th century. For much of the following century it was the home of the Baker family who ran the adjacent brickyard. The cottage along with Image, which is behind the hedge on the right side of the road, are the only surviving buildings of the brickyard. The right angled nature of the cottage vis-a-vis the road is due to it being built to face the old route of the Lewes to Newhaven road that ran from the right then to the left up Harping Hill. The current road in view was not built until the 1820s and actually split the brickyard from its chalk quarry.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.810455
Longitude
0.032578