One of the larger houses south of the church is ‘Park House’. It is not known when the residence was built but the Parish Registers record it as the Rootes’ family home from about 1585 to 1720. It was apparently a small well-wooded estate when purchased by Sir John Villiers Shelley about 1850 to form part of his Maresfield Park Estate.

The Home Farm known as Park Farm was tenanted by Mr Knight, who was a hop grower, in the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century.

The painting of the cart lodge and farm buildings at Park Farm circa 1948 on this page was painted by Mrs Doris Barford (second wife of Mr Valentine Barford, son of Thos. H. Barford, the outfitters in Uckfield High Street for about 80 years).

The farm yard and approach is now concreted and very different from the deep rutted muddy track encountered by the Church carol party soon after the war. Mr A.J. Stevenson, a local builder and church sidesman, decided his big bodied builder’s van with Mrs Hazelden and her organ on board wouldn’t get through the mud to the farmhouse door so the carol party split in two. It was a dark night and it wasn’t surprising that co-ordination flew in the wind and as one group struck up “It came upon a Midnight clear”, the others lustily sang “Angels from the Realms of Glory”.

The fields to the south of the farm are now dissected by the Maresfield bypass and an underpass has been built.