About the Business
The Priory Court has been a hotel for nearly 100 years and the oldest parts of the building with its oak beams date back to the mid 1700s. Once called Harold's Lodge it has an interesting past with varying uses over the past 300 years.
In the early 1800s as Harold's Lodge it was a large market garden with green houses stretching back to the north of the current buildings. In the mid to late 1800s the hotel was bought by the local vicar as an investment as he apparently believed the that vicarage to be substandard. Local history books record that he succeeded in his investment and sold the building to the church as the new vicarage for Pevensey in the late 1800s. Apparently the church then paid for extensive recommendations to the building. Unfortunately Church records for this time of very limited so it's unclear as to what these renovations entailed.
It is known however that 'Harold's lodge' was subsequently sold at an auction in the village in 1918 for the princely sum of £1500.
Location & Hours
Castle Road
