Wootton Manor is a country house in Folkington,

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. Originally a mediaeval manor house, from which parts of the chapel survive, it was rebuilt in the mid-17th century in a rather old-fashioned Jacobean style.

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and his wife settled in the house after their marriage in 1905, and later commissioned the

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architect

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to restore and extend the house, which he did in four directions, and add outbuildings, as well as working in the gardens. The cookery writer

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, and her three sisters, grew up in this house. The central building has been listed as

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.Central Building of Wootton Manor – Long Man – East Sussex – England , British Listed Buildings
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