Not in mint condition: Mint House, Pevensey

Mint House is a Grade II*-listed timber-frame building, which stands opposite Pevensey Castle on Pevensey High Street in East Sussex. It has been on the Heritage at Risk Register since 2022, and is currently in extremely poor condition – but the Friends of the Mint House, having secured funding from Historic England, are working to restore the structure and to turn it into the Home of Sussex Folklore. As part of this initiative, last year Historic England funded dendrochronological dating of samples of wood taken from the building, led by Dr Martin Bridge. The results found that the hall and kitchen ranges all date to the same period, with timber from these areas probably having bee