Lewes: Day 1

Standen House

After the excitement of the Golden Wedding, a little 4 day break in West Sussex.

Drove down this morning from Norwich to Standen House, a National Trust arts and crafts house near East Grinstead.  First lunch, then the house and then the garden, or part of it.   The house was furnished with original William Morris designed wallpapers and fabrics and had a wonderful collection of arts and crafts pottery and lights and wall lights.   Outside we had time only for the kitchen garden before we headed off to our Airbnb in Lewes.

Planting in front of Standen House

Gents toilet

The conservatory

Brass door plate

Lady of the house

Lamp

Mirror

Upper corridor

On the prowl

Ancient espaliered apple tree

Our home for the week

Our home for the week 2

We had been led to believe that Lewes wasn't very interesting, but it is a little Georgian gem with many fascinating buildings.  We walked all the way down the high street and found Waitrose and bought some basic supplies and on the way back, stopped at a wine shop and bought a bottle of Chateau Fleur de Lisse, for no good reason other than the name!  We are about to try it before going back down the high street to find something to eat.   Rather a lot of restaurants are closed on Mondays.  This being Monday we are going to be forced to go to Pizza Express!!!  What a hardship! Still plenty of little side roads to explore another day.

Look MaryUDuce, it started in Lewes!

Even Pizza Express is in an interesting building