Additions and Gardens: Cripland Court, Gravelye Lane, Lindfield, West Sussex
In 1898, Henry and Ellen Howorth purchased an area of farmland off Graveley Lane, Lindfield, with the intention of building a house and farm. However, Henry Howarth, a retired Colonel in the 3rd Battalion Devonshire regiment, died on 18 June 1899 at Wimbledon without seeing the scheme completed. However, work was continued by his widow, Ellen, and by March 1901 she and her children had taken up residence at Cripland Court. Almost immediately she commissioned P Morley Horder to carry out further additions and improvements to the house and Thomas H Mawson to lay out the gardens. The additions to the house were complete by March 1902 but little progress was seemingly made to the gardens.
Cripland Court was a spacious 12 bedroomed country house with “Colonial” style balconies to the garden front, and included staff accommodation, a range of stables and outbuildings and Cripland Court Farm. The main house was demolished in 1960s.
Reference Building News 11 July 1902 page 46 and illustration
Reference Mid Sussex Times 18 March 1902 page 5
