It is on the B2165 road which runs from the Ewhurst parish village of Cripps Corner, 1,500 yards (1,400 m) to the south, to Beckley, 4 miles (6 km) to the east.

Within Staplecross, defined by East Sussex County Council's village entry road signs, are fifteen Grade II listed buildings and structures.

[18] The second, adjacent to and south from the Londis store, is the early 19th-century two-storey 'Edgell Cottage', of three bays and weatherboarded, with sash windows, a hipped slate roof and a gabled central porch.

[19] The third, in the second plot down from Edgell Cottage and just inside the village, is the 15-century two-storey 'Solomon's Garden', timber-framed with infill of plaster set on a ground floor red brick plinth; the roof is thatched and hipped.

[20] At the east from the war memorial on the north side of Northiam Road is a terraced range of four listed early 19th-century two-storey cottages, the brick ground floor, and weatherboarding above, painted white.

[22] Further east, beyond Staplecross village hall, and opposite Cricketers Field (road), is 'Marigolds', a two-storey three-bay house dating to the 18th century.

The range has gabled porches, and is of two-storeys in painted brick, with a hipped roof and first floor of overlapping red tile facing on the west-most cottage.