Rushton Park was described as a "handsome and well arranged mansion, situated on an eminence in extensive grounds, commanding beautiful views of the surrounding country: the pleasure grounds cover about 5 acres: the forcing garden consists of two ranges of houses [greenhouses], each 160 feet long: the house and stables are supplied with gas made on the premises."
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Nineteenth century maps of Vinehall Street show the Bell Inn public house, a brewery, post office, a National School for boys and girls, two farms, a fish pond and a club.
[11] Businesses, chiefly at the south-east, includes a farm, and companies for livery and stabling, painting and decorating, and interior design.
[12][13][14] Six bus routes stop at Vinehall Street: Netherfield to Battle; Etchingham to Pebsham (Bexhill-on-Sea); Westfield to Robertsbridge, Peasmarsh to Robertbridge; Hastings to Tunbridge Wells, and Mountfield to Baldslow.
At the junction of the A21 with the B2089 is Vinehall Manor (TQ7555820353), an L-shaped 16th-century house of two storeys, an attic with gabled dormer window, a tiled roof, and an external chimney breast at the west wall.
The red brick ground, and a tile faced first floor, contains casement windows with "pointed Gothic panes".
[23] At 3,230 yards (2,953.5 m) south from Vinehall Manor, and on the A21, is Rosewell Testers (TQ7584620023), street-signed as 'Rosewell Cottage', is a house, today semi-detached, dating at least to the 17th century.
The red brick ground, and a tile faced slightly overhanging first floor, contains casement windows with "pointed Gothic panes", and overlays the earlier timber framed structure.