Clarendon House, Judges Terrace, East Grinstead

Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 20 Sep 2009

15th century Grade II* Listed timber framed house later known as the George and now Clarendon House is likely to have provided inn-like hospitality since built in the late 15th century, as it combined four burgages and was in the possession of the Brotherhood of St Katherine. The listing comments that it can be 'considered as properly repaired and must present much the same general appearance as in the 16th century'. Built about 1485 along with the adjoining Old Stone House built in 1590(? possibly 1641) they were used up to the beginning of the 19th century by Judges holding Winter Assizes in Sussex including, according to local legend, the notorious Judge Jeffries. In front of the building punishments were often carried out from whipping and hangings, to the burning at the stake of the East Grinstead Martyrs during the reign of Queen Mary.

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