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Mr Russell's Little Floral Kingdom: The Story of Litlington Pleasure Gardens and the Russell Family 1800-1900, by Juliet Clarke, published 1999 (60 pp., Alfriston: Rookery Books) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502935] & East Sussex Libraries

An Early Vernacular Hammer-Beam Structure: Imberhorne Farm Cottages, East Grinstead, West Sussex, by J. Clarke, published 2005 in Vernacular architecture (vol. 36, article, pp.32-40) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501316] & British Library   View Online

Imberhorne Farm Cottages 1-3 (TQ 373384) are, from the exterior, Victorian farm-workers' cottages. The outward appearance, however, hides the impressive remains of Imberhorne Manor House, containing an early archbraced false hammer-beam roof, tree-ring dated to 1428. The structure is compared to other surviving arch-braced examples and shows strongest similarities to the design of Westminster Hall, but lacking its elaborate mouldings and sculpture. The lack of adornment enables the detail of the design to be determined, showing considerable strengthening of the braces and retention of the hammer beam and post as single elements undivided by the arch. The construction of such a building within thirty years of the completion of Westminster Hall makes this property particularly important within the milieu of the developing structure of the arch-braced hammer beam, and demonstrates the influence of Westminster Hall in a vernacular context.

The Star Inn, Alfriston: Researching the history of an iconic building, by Juliet Clarke, published December 2010 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 122, article, pp.6-7, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The half-timbered, jettied front and grotesque wood-carvings of the Star Inn at Alfriston evoke another age and many theories have been propounded, many tales told, about the building's past. Facts though are in short supply. Alfriston's strategic position on the South Downs Way, the pilgrim route between Chichester and Canterbury, might well have meant a resting place to medieval travellers - but no evidence of this has survived. In fact, until recently, not only had no definitive date been established for the oldest part of the building but there was nothing recorded to show it as an inn or tavern before 1658.
Then, in August 2010, the ultimate authorities on timber-framed buildings, David and Barbara Martin, were commissioned to produce a full archaeological survey of the building.

Alfriston: A Sussex Market Town and Its Makers, by Juliet Clarke, published 7 November 2011 (Rookery Books, ISBN-10: 1873461801 & ISBN-13: 9781873461808) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507907] & East Sussex Libraries