Northiam buildings [7]
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Northiam buildings [7]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 10 May 2022
This public house in Main Street is now closed and boarded-up. Formerly the Crown and Thistle Inn, it closed for refurbishment in 2009 and reopened as The Muddy Duck in 2011 and closed again in 2018. The building is 17th century, or. possibly, earlier, timber framed, faced with weatherboard with both gables jettied. The ground floor was built out in the 20th century. All under a tile roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1275682 Northiam is a large village in the valley of the River Rother, East Sussex, some 10 miles north of Hastings. The village sits astride the A28 road from Canterbury to Hastings. Queen Elizabeth I stopped in the village for a meal and left behind a pair of green damask shoes. In May 1944, just before D Day, the Prime Ministers of four countries inspected the troops of Southern Command on the village playing fields. Great Dixter House and gardens form the western edge of the village.
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