The present building, which was converted into a house in the early 21st century, was erected in 1810 and was at various times served by ministers from Battle and Hastings Unitarian Churches and later, Tenterden.

George Gilbert, known as the "Apostle of Sussex", was an itinerant preacher of the mid- to late 18th century, known for his "strong character" and fervent Calvinistic views.

He then underwent a further shift in his religious views in the early 1790s when he began to profess Universalist beliefs, which caused the church to split.

This continued when he met the American theologian Elhanan Winchester, whose treatise Dialogues on Universal Restoration had caused Vidler to doubt his Calvinist convictions.

[3] One was in the village of Northiam, north of Battle, where a congregation which had begun to meet in a wooden chapel came under Vidler's influence and "adopted his religious outlook".

[7] After the death of Edwards, the chapel closed for a time until the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Association supplied a new minister to serve both Battle and Northiam.

There was then another period of closure, during which time the building became dilapidated, but in 1879 £130 was spent to install new flooring, pews, windows and a pulpit, and it reopened in June of that year, now served from Hastings Unitarian Church[8] (which had opened in 1868).

[14] The interior prior to closure and residential conversion was "very modest":[16] a timber ceiling with open trusses, pine pews and pulpit, and a dado with original (early 19th-century) moulded panels.