The Sussex Border Walk - Part Five: A Look at Courtlands and Jupps Barn

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

That beautiful white and red brick Mansion just beautiful can't say it enough thank you so much sir for taking these walks and sharing them with us I look forward to each episode God bless you.

[@RichardVobes]

I am so thrilled. I really try hard to make them work well. Thanks for watching.

[@ramibu239]

Wow Richard...2 really great buildings!!! Courtlands Estate & Jupps Barn were just both equally spectacular in their own rights!!!😍😍😍 Great Job!👏👏👏

[@RichardVobes]

I knew it was going to be a special video when I started editing it.

[@ramibu239]

@@RichardVobes it absolutely was! And the music just enhanced it all that much more!!!👌

[@footcorner6863]

Your efforts are much appreciated to show us the whole sussex !! Cheers Sir

[@RichardVobes]

My pleasure - hope you enjoy the series.

[@narfit1966]

Hi Richard, I used to work (25 odd years ago) for Bond International which is the software company you mentioned, we moved into Courtlands while it was still being restored, inside it is amaziing, there is a big sweeping staircase when you go through the main entrance that is spectacular, it's an absolute rabbit warren of rooms inside. At the bottom of the lawn is a small lake and not long after we moved in one of the security guards saw what he thought was a ghost down there one night which made it a little bit creepy at nights, you started to see all kinds of things in the corner of your eye! Anyway nice to see the place again, shame it's a bit run down now, hopefully someone will put some love into it again!

[@RichardVobes]

Wow! Thanks for sharing your story - how fascinating. I do hope it is restored again to its former glory. Interesting about the ghost.

[@tallpojjy]

This is one of the most interesting videos ever, I am fascinated by both Courtlands and Jupps Barn. To see inside the barn is triumphant luck!

[@RichardVobes]

It was very luck to be able to film these places - so pleased you enjoyed it.

[@tensils]

A good start to the day by watching this. Thanks

[@RichardVobes]

That is nice to know - thanks for watching.

[@JimNicholls]

Nearly 60 years ago, when I was 21, I had my appendix removed in Worthing Hospital. I was then moved to Courtlands, which was used in those days as the convalescent hospital, and spent seven days recovering in the care of some delightful nurses, one of whom I nearly married later. Happy memories!

[@RichardVobes]

Awww, sounds wonderful. Thanks for the romance story too. Happy memories indeed.

[@annagomm8442]

Loved , loved, loved, the bit on courtlands always run by and stop and wonder!!!!

[@RichardVobes]

Fabulous - so pleased you liked it.

[@kezzaba1]

How fascinating, that barn was so beautiful with its flint walls. I’m used to the wealden barns which were built entirely of wood. I am really enjoying this series.

[@RichardVobes]

The old flint was used a lot down this way and is one of Sussex's distinctive features.

[@shirleylynch4420]

Beautiful buildings and bricks . The barn was amazing. Thank you so much.

[@RichardVobes]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@damedavidfrith55]

Working my way round with your perfect rambles ,🍰

[@paulmetcalfe4824]

It won’t be long now until you will be crossing the Worthing border !!! Keep going Richard !!! And god bless you

[@RichardVobes]

It will be good to start making further progress and escape the clutches of Worthing :)

[@leighlawson4854]

A 'two scoops' video! What luck to be able to film in the gardens at Courtlands for us and I am so pleased you gained access to film inside Jupps Barn too. Very interesting Richard, thank you.

[@RichardVobes]

I was so lucky on this shoot. Thanks for the info about your Great Great Great Grandfather!

[@leighlawson4854]

I told you too many greats! It was only two. My fault - I got it right on paper, then promptly said the wrong number. Who cares!

[@imranzazai7404]

What a beautiful place.

[@denniskavanagh3075]

Hi Richard, good to see you out on your walk again. Thank you for visiting Courtlands and Jupps Barn, neither of which I was aware of before.

[@RichardVobes]

Fascinating places for sure.

[@Stringtrees]

I recently saw an advertisement for one of those high pressure hose things and I was imagining using it to clean up a bit at Courtlands and how beautiful it will look after some TLC. As for the barn, what a beautiful building. The workmanship on the wall was excellent and those old timbers were astonishing. When built, the trees they come from would possibly have been hundreds of years old.

[@RichardVobes]

I am hoping who ever owns Courtlands looks after it. It needs some TLC.

[@colinzuzka2007]

This is an excellent walk Richard hope you get some good weather.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks, Colin - me too! :)

[@caileanocadhla3912]

I particularly enjoyed this episode.

[@RichardVobes]

I am so pleased to hear that! Thank you.

[@andrewnorris1]

It was encouraging to hear that you encountered a woman who encouraged you to film around that magnificient pile, and the results are certainly an interesting part of your walk. This is a great series, and the music was well balanced. Thanks, Richard.

[@RichardVobes]

Wonderful! Yes, I was very lucky!

[@PortsladeBySea]

Wow ~ a gem of a film Richard! Well done! 🏆

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks, Mike

[@CharlieCooper3101]

I really love this part Richard, the music is great, the pictures and videos you took was amazing. You did such a professional job this is my favourite part so far, some lovely buildings. Lovely mansion. The the beach shelter's lovely too. Can't wait for the next part.

[@RichardVobes]

It's edited and ready for tomorrow! :)

[@JuliaHartley]

Loved seeing the inside the barn especially... Great video Richard, many thanks!

[@RichardVobes]

My pleasure Julia. We will get you back in the videos soon too!

[@lindakane7771]

What luck!! Courtlands has been many things over its lifetime. Once used by the Local Health Authority. I remember a few staff meetings there some of interior esp the Gold Room were stunning. Have been into Jupps Barn for local history talks. So unspoilt

[@RichardVobes]

I was so lucky with that shoot. I was thrilled to walk around the grounds unchallenged.

[@michaelwhite8031]

Very interesting places today. I loved the barn. The history those wall have absorbed. It's a pity George Gates house no longer exists.

[@RichardVobes]

Yes, that is a real shame. Thanks, Michael.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

Wow! The barn💝

[@RichardVobes]

Absolutely!

[@davidmills636]

Fascinating - thank you

[@RichardVobes]

My pleasure.

[@whosbear]

I've got a picture of my great grandad outside Goring Hall when it was a hospital during the war. He was an officer with St John Ambulance. He's standing with some of the nurses there. You're a lucky fella to get a chance to wonder around the building. Fabulous place.

[@RichardVobes]

I only got to look around Courtlands, not Goring Hall, sadly!

[@turbostream7925]

You are finding us some intresting places to look at. I looked on the map and you were very close to where my grandad retired to. He lived north of the barn on a road called The Greenway the other side of the railway. I remember going to his house after he died in 1979 I guess my dad would be clearing it out ready for sale much as you did with your dads house. I would have been 10 in 1979. Thank you for the story so far Richard and reminding me of my grandad.

[@RichardVobes]

I hope they brought you happy memories. Glad you are enjoying the series.

[@OriginalPoppinus]

A fabulous property 😍I hope it has a certain and appropriate future, your choice of music was excellent x

[@RichardVobes]

So pleased you enjoyed it, Alexis.

[@jeanblemings5352]

Loved the start of the film - it sucked me right in! And great access all areas episode. So interesting. Courtlands seems a bit like Goring castle with different architectural styles back and front. The barn was awesome, almost with same atmosphere as a church or religious building which you enhanced with choice of soundtrack I thought. Great work!

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks, Jean - so pleased you enjoyed and that it sucked you in.

[@MrGreatplum]

Great video and how fortuitous to get access into the grounds of Courtlands. The Queen Anne style was very popular in Edwardian times and this house is one of that last great build of country houses. Looks like it needs some TLC. I suspect it won’t be used as offices on the future and is likely to become a care home or flats...

[@RichardVobes]

It will a shame to turn it into a care home - but it is in the right place for it if it does.

[@carolross6583]

Love the tug at the heartstrings music. I'm assuming Jupps barn and Courtlands are listed Buildings? Property developers - keep your hands off!

[@RichardVobes]

Let's hope the property people do leave well alone.

[@MrNas42]

What a tremendous coup! Access to Courtlands and Jupp's Barn. I know the family that live inside Jefferies' House, but they don't take to kindly to strangers knocking at their door. It happens all too frequently apparently...

[@RichardVobes]

I better not knock at the door then! :)

[@marcintime]

Thank you Richard! Very interesting, especially as I never visited either of those places when living in Goring. I don't know if you'll be lingering there; very little remains of the original village but it might be worth taking a look at The Bull Inn.

[@RichardVobes]

Ah yes, the Bull Inn, I think that is on the list! Thanks for the reminder.

[@badger509]

Great, interesting video, and nice camera work.

[@RichardVobes]

Thank you very much!

[@sticehurst369]

I worked at Courtlands for a number of years for the software company and in fact in that large ball room you looked into with it's gold paint. My desk looked out over the room and through the large windows and french doors into the garden. I must say it looks all a bit tatty now which is a shame. It was a great place to work in, not like the normal air conditioned office shutoff off from the outside world that you normally find software companies - I don't think I've ever had a better office. Even though I was there for a number of years, I often got lost or discovered rooms I'd never seen. You might work with someone for ages and talk to them over the internal phone system, and see them at lunch times, but knowing which room they sat in was another thing! It felt a bit like being back at home watching you walk around and look inside.

[@RichardVobes]

A fascinating place - how wonderful to have worked in there rather than the usual office space. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@steveroperfilms]

I'm hooked! Could you contrive to run into some traditional musos? As in old books, songs can tell a great story. By recording music you help preserve the tradition, and you might end up with some nice exploring soundtracks. Cheers.

[@RichardVobes]

Recording music from musicians would be good, although probably a minefield of copyright stuff.

[@steveroperfilms]

@@RichardVobes The trad stuff for the music is usually OK. The recording copyright is between you and the musos. Great exposure for them. Cheers.

[@bullettube9863]

Now that is a barn! So glad you were able to go inside, and being repurposed rather then torn down is a great achievement. I hope it lasts another 300 years! Courtlands looks like a hospital, was it intended to be this way? I can't imagine such a large building being a farm house, it looks too grand. Despite the weather your video still came out looking very impressive, and I loved that beach shelter with seating on all four sides. On a windy day you could sit on the leeward side and still enjoy the sea air.

[@RichardVobes]

It was built in 1820 first as a farm house. That was torn down and the newer building - what we see, was built in 1906.

[@bullettube9863]

@@RichardVobes Oh I see. Well that explains why it looks the way it does. Beautiful building all the same.

[@wattck]

Lovely video again. Lots of interesting items. The Shelter on the sea wall, was it a Tram Shelter? we have had one restored here in the last two years on Princes Parade, originally the route of horse drawn Trams, I believe known locally as "Toast Racks" because they had rows of seats one behind the other, open at the sides and no roof. The Tram Shed is still at the edge of Red Lion Sqaure in Hythe and has the signage of the Tram Company still in the gable end carved in Stone. Courtlands is an amazing place but the Converted barn at Jupp's Farm really took my eye. What a substantial building it is, lots of timber, high roof and solid walls. If you've ever had a meal in Bybrook Barn Harvester in Ashford you will an almost identical building and just as Fascinating. Great to see them enjoying a new lease of life and as good today as they were many many years ago. This is a great short film, very impressive. Thanks.

[@RichardVobes]

Not sure it was ever a tram shelter, but possible modelled on it. These I believe are 1930s and are strung along the sea front.

[@johnbyrne2756]

TUMBLEDOWN. (the other side of the coin).... (verse 1 of 6) The brash Lord lived well off 'his' country estate Where salmon and pheasant adorned dinner plate The staff and the surfs all survived on a pittance A sign on the gate clearly warned 'NO ADMITTANCE' Hawker and poacher they both feared the gun Along with the rats each and every bar none! JB09

[@RichardVobes]

Lovely!

[@richm2835]

These old structures were so solidly built

[@RichardVobes]

Beautiful things. The barn will out live all the new builds too.

[@leejsncooper]

when you visit Richard Jeffries house do have a peek at the end of the lane at Malthouse cottages! i lived there from 1999-2001. it feels like you’re in the countryside, not Worthing! keep up the good work!

[@RichardVobes]

Looking forward to that - I will have a peek. Hope they don't mind me filming there.

[@MrNas42]

I lived in Nutley Crescent, so next door to both (Jefferies' House was at the bottom of our garden and the current occupants used to be out neighbours in the Crescent.) My Cub-Scout pack leader lived at No.9 Malthouse Cottages and it is she who got me interested in local history!

[@caveweta]

I wonder if the green sward where you’ve been today was covered in invasion defences during WW2? I have seen photos of the green in Lancing at that time with all of the concrete piles and barbed wire to prevent any invasion.

[@RichardVobes]

Oh, I should think so - there was barbed wire all along the coast.

[@ducktack1]

As narfit 1966 stated it was Bond that had the premises but was bought by a US company and then pretty much asset stripped with, as always, the top guys going first. Shame as we had one of our vending machines in there and noticed a distinct demise in morale once it was acquired. The atmosphere was always really bubbly and happy until then. They initially had 150 staff but only about 40 ended up being moved to the new building in Liverpool Gardens. Such a shame but that's apparently 'progress'! Also of notice is that around 1997 a friend of mine who was a plumber/electrician was asked to look around it to quote and stated that it was absolutely awful inside with leaking ceilings and damp everywhere as it had been left for years. The renovation took a massive amount of money to regain it's former glory but once again it's been on the market for about 3 years now fortunately with a caretaker to keep the lights on, so to speak. The problem, or not, is that it's a listed building so not even the box sash windows can be completely replaced so it's difficult keeping it warm and dry as some of the windows have 1/4" gaps wher you can feel the wind blowing in. You can't even have running water to every room as a result of it's listing which thwarted the idea of turning the establishment into a nursing home or flats(thank God)! Great vids, keep 'em coming 👍

[@RichardVobes]

Great insight to the big house - thanks for that.

[@clivewaterfall7732]

Jupps Barn looked amazing! I might have missed it in the video and comments but what is it’s present use?

[@RichardVobes]

It's attached to the church and is now the church hall. It is a lovely barn.

[@daveevad]

A delightful video, Richard. Just as well you are not a historian, otherwise it might not have been so interesting!

[@RichardVobes]

Yes, so true!

[@fastsetinthewest]

Eaglegards...

[@stevegee7593]

If Courtlands was in the London/Essex area. It would have all ready been turn into flats, sorry apartments.

[@RichardVobes]

Right, and that's a fact!