Searles
Sussex
Location | Fletching | |
Year demolished | 1949 | |
Reason | Damage from wartime requisitioning |
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The house c.1900. Searles was built in 1887 and was the first house in Sussex to have electric light.
View of the house from the grounds c.1900.
The house in the late 1940s - the years of use as a Canadian Officer's Mess and general neglect had left it in a poor state.