Streat

Anglo-Saxon place names containing "Street", "Streat" or "Stret" usually indicate a Roman road, and this is the case here, as Streat is built on the Sussex Greensand Way, and there is a north-south Roman or Romanised Celtic road known as the Middleton Track just over the west parish boundary border at Hayleigh Farm sweeping past Grade II listed Middleton Manor [4] which ascends the South Downs escarpment passing above the Victoria Jubilee Middleton Plantation.[5]

Clayton to Offham Escarpment is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which stretches from Hassocks in the west and passes through many parishes including Streat, to Lewes in the east. The site is of biological importance due to its rare chalk grassland habitat along with its woodland and scrub.[6]

Streat Parish Church

There is an Old Rectory, a listed building, which may indicate the existence of chancel repair liability [7] to any lay improprietors of land which was once belonged to the church.

Streat Place is a manor house built in the early 17th century by Walter Dobell who died in 1624. The building has an E shaped plan with central porch and projecting wings.[8] Its national listing gives it as Grade II* and reveals its architectural merit as including its entire facing of knapped flints with long and short ashlar quoins to each window bay.[9]

The long north-south parish reaches its highest point in its southern quarter, here Streat Hill rises to 224m above sea level; here there are two earthworks or tumuli. These are two bowl barrows which are termed by archaeologists the Western Brow round barrow cemetery.[10]

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