BARCOMBE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record and associated TNA/ESBHRO records consistently identify the historic manor of Barcombe in Sussex. Local historical research distinguishes this manor from the separate manor of Camois Court within the same parish and identifies Court House Farm, beside St Mary's Church in old Barcombe, as the core of the medieval manorial complex. The later Barcombe Place and Barcombe House were separate, later-developed country estates rather than evidence of the original manor centre.
Representative point: 50.9112, 0.0175
Basis: documented_manor_site — Court House, formerly Courtlodge Farm, is a documented medieval/C15 house beside Barcombe parish church. The Sussex Archaeological Society identifies Court House Farm as the core of the medieval Barcombe manorial complex.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence confirms the manorial centre but does not provide a sufficiently recoverable, documented perimeter for the historical manor. The 1837 ESBHRO plan records individual tenements held of the manor of Barcombe, and the registry leads include sixteenth-century surveys, rentals and later court books, but the actual mapped boundary or parcel schedule was not available in the accessible catalogue material. The modern parish boundary cannot be substituted because Barcombe parish historically contained multiple manors, including Barcombe and Camois Court, plus detached portions of other manors.
Sources:
- The Manor House, Barcombe, Historic England listing 1043998: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043998 — Useful for distinguishing a separate listed building called The Manor House in the wider Barcombe parish; it is at NGR TQ4035214233 and is not used as the representative point for Barcombe Manor.
- Court House, Barcombe, Historic England listing 1352978: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1352978 — Records Court House, formerly Courtlodge Farm, in Barcombe Church Road; the original portion is C15 and the building is beside the parish church. Listing NGR TQ4196114327 supports the representative location.
- Discovering Barcombe and Hamsey: additional information, Sussex Archaeological Society: https://paperzz.com/doc/9468301/additional-information---the-sussex-archaeological-society — States that Court House Farm undoubtedly represents the core of the medieval manorial complex at Barcombe, and explains that the parish also contained the separate manor of Camois Court and detached portions of other manors.
- Printed plan of an estate in Isfield and Barcombe, showing tenements held of the manor of Barcombe, The National Archives catalogue: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/3043f36b-f687-449e-8ad2-d5a647ca77da — Confirms the existence of a mapped 1837 estate plan identifying individual tenements held of the manor of Barcombe, but the accessible catalogue entry does not expose enough of the plan to reconstruct a reliable perimeter.
- TNA/MDR record F254806: Barcombe Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F254806 — Primary registry record supplied for the exact manor identity and authority reference GB/NNAF/M272845.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Do not use the modern Barcombe civil-parish boundary as the manor boundary.
- Do not substitute Barcombe Place, Barcombe House or the separately listed The Manor House at Cooksbridge for the medieval manorial centre.
- A defensible representative point was established, but no historically grounded polygon could be verified from the accessible sources.