Alfriston Clergy House is a Grade II* listed building which was built as a residence for the parish priest of the neighbouring 14th-century St Andrew’s Church. The house was built between 1399 and 1407 and is one of a handful remaining Wealden Houses in Alfriston village. The structure of the Clergy House was intended to display the owner’s wealth and significance. The interior features a rammed chalk floor in the hall and moulded and crenelated beams. It was the very first building to be saved by the National Trust, bought for £10 in 1896.
The house contains various metalwork objects, including a mid-to-late 16th-century cast iron fireback and a 19th-century cast iron water pump. A collection of photographs show the house in its ruined state in the late 19th century before it was acquired and restored by the National Trust.
