John Mortimer

John Mortimer
File:Mortimer, John.jpg
Died	1871
Residence	Pippingham Park, Uckfield, S.
Society Membership membership ASL, AI ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1872.10.22 dead elected_AI 1864 elected_ASL 1864.06.14

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Apparently the house lay derelict until the estate was acquired by John Mortimer. He was obviously a ,man of some substance, as he had a town house in Hanover Square, and was able to commission the famous French architect, Hector Horeau , to build what must have been an exceedingly grand and expensive country one. Like another of Horeau's creation, Normanhurst, near Battle , The house was modelled on a French chateau, and was hopelessly impractical. it was completed in 1857, and was three times the size of the present one. As a matter of interest, Hector Horeau won the competition for the design of the great exhibition of 1851, but was not awarded the contract, no doubt because he was a foreigner.
After Mortimers death in 1871, the property passed to a Mr Grey, who is believed to have been his nephew