A legacy of the Sussex Iron Industry, this splendid house in Horney Common was an Iron Master’s home and one time residence of Sir Winston Churchill’s physician, Lord Moran.

Between the wars, an American lady lived there with her English husband. According to Mrs Mary Morrison of Franklands Village, her Mother used to help out in the house in the early thirties. ‘So at times I had a privileged peep into some of the gracious rooms.’

A 1931 extract from Sussex County magazine (below) lists the owner as Captain Charles Herbert Wombwell, who served in the Seventeenth Lancers in the Boer War and was an officer of the South African Horse Guards.

Marshall’s Manor is located in Horney Common, across the lake to the northwest of Flitterbanks Farm (now on the other side of the A22 bypass).