Plumpton Place

Plumpton Place is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England.[1] The house is on the English Heritage register.

Plumpton Place
Type	Manor house
Location	Plumpton
Coordinates	50°54′16″N 0°04′00″W
OS grid reference	TQ 36045 13453
Area	East Sussex
Built	1568
Architectural style(s)	Elizabethan
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Plumpton Place
Designated	17 March 1952
Reference no.	1274171
Location of Plumpton Place in East Sussex

Plumpton Place looks onto the nearby north-facing escarpment of the South Downs, with Plumpton College (formerly Plumpton Agricultural College) and the 11th-century church of St. Michael's and All Angels immediately adjacent to the west and Plumpton village some 500m to the east. There is an entrance formed of two cottages designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with a Palladian porch and this leads to his modern bridge over the moat.

It was built in 1568 on the site of an earlier house which was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The North and South parts of the house date from the 1400s, some of which incorporates local flint.

Various building materials have been used in the construction of the house. It is believed that the north wing is the earliest, as there is a date-stone of 1568 with the initials I.M. The west wing seems to date from a later period, circa 1600. Over a hundred years later there was a period of rebuilding in brick and some additions by Lutyens. There are lakeside gardens by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, within large grounds, that include both woodland and pasture.

It was formerly the home of George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968), who maintained a race-horse stud at the property. From 1972 to 1985, it belonged to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.[2]

Plumpton Place was used as the main location for the 2019 film adaptation of Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.