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  • Contents
    • Preamble
      • Hastings as a fashionable resort
      • Jane Austen and Sanditon
      • Acknowledgements
    • Matthew Fagg
      • Fagg at Lydd
      • Fagg and Hackney
      • The site and its purchase
      • Sanditon, and why Exmouth?
      • Date of completion
      • Architect designed?
    • The House that Fagg built
      • Preparing the site
      • The well and the front terrace
      • The house: main structure
      • The roof
      • Original disposition of rooms
      • Overall cost
    • Early modifications
      • Exmouth Cottage
      • Rear extensions
      • The 'ogee' motif
    • Fashionable heyday
      • Rental values
      • Marie-Louise Christophe, Queen of Haiti
      • Fagg as rentier
      • Vincent Francis Rivaz, insurance broker
      • Ownership of the Deudneys
      • The house burgled, 1841
      • Orlando Jones, starch-patentee
      • Anna Cabell
    • Victorian Occupants
      • Victorian Occupants
      • Samuel Gutsell, grocer and town councillor
      • James Hunt, speech therapist to Lewis Carroll
      • George Edward Moulton, wine merchant
      • John Melhuish, druggist, and Mrs Hassell
      • The Maynards and the first Exmouth House School
      • The Willdeys
      • John Bowley, council architect
    • Victorian Alterations
      • Victorian Alterations
      • Embellishments
      • Windows replaced and chimneys extended
      • Rebuilding of the front terrace
    • Miss Hayhurst and Exmouth House School
      • Elizabeth Hayhurst, art needleworker
      • Early history of the school
      • Alice Fearnside's memories
      • The teachers and what they taught
      • The daily routine
      • Prize-givings
      • The disposition of the house
      • The closure of the school, and its traces
    • Mid Twentieth-century Developments
      • Division into flats
      • Occupants to 1974
      • Ernest and Sybil Willett
    • 1991: The Crucial Year
      • The move to Hastings
      • Leafletting
      • Planning application
      • Initial work on the house
      • The rear extension
      • The roof
    • From 1992 to the Present Day
      • 1992: decorating and the garden
      • 1993: Plasterwork, fanlight, French windows and rotten joists
      • 1994: decorating the hall and staircase
      • 1995: kitchen
      • 1996: front bedroom and garden wall
      • 1999: rear bathroom
      • 2001: more decorating
      • 2002: front gulley
      • 2004: restoring the well
      • 2011: rebuilding the chimneys
      • 2012: railings on West Hill
      • 2013-18: decorating
      • 2020: restoration of rear wall
      • Conclusion: overall cost
    • Timeline: Owners and Occupants
  • Timeline
  • Gallery
  • Home
  • Contents
    • Preamble
      • Hastings as a fashionable resort
      • Jane Austen and Sanditon
      • Acknowledgements
    • Matthew Fagg
      • Fagg at Lydd
      • Fagg and Hackney
      • The site and its purchase
      • Sanditon, and why Exmouth?
      • Date of completion
      • Architect designed?
    • The House that Fagg built
      • Preparing the site
      • The well and the front terrace
      • The house: main structure
      • The roof
      • Original disposition of rooms
      • Overall cost
    • Early modifications
      • Exmouth Cottage
      • Rear extensions
      • The 'ogee' motif
    • Fashionable heyday
      • Rental values
      • Marie-Louise Christophe, Queen of Haiti
      • Fagg as rentier
      • Vincent Francis Rivaz, insurance broker
      • Ownership of the Deudneys
      • The house burgled, 1841
      • Orlando Jones, starch-patentee
      • Anna Cabell
    • Victorian Occupants
      • Victorian Occupants
      • Samuel Gutsell, grocer and town councillor
      • James Hunt, speech therapist to Lewis Carroll
      • George Edward Moulton, wine merchant
      • John Melhuish, druggist, and Mrs Hassell
      • The Maynards and the first Exmouth House School
      • The Willdeys
      • John Bowley, council architect
    • Victorian Alterations
      • Victorian Alterations
      • Embellishments
      • Windows replaced and chimneys extended
      • Rebuilding of the front terrace
    • Miss Hayhurst and Exmouth House School
      • Elizabeth Hayhurst, art needleworker
      • Early history of the school
      • Alice Fearnside's memories
      • The teachers and what they taught
      • The daily routine
      • Prize-givings
      • The disposition of the house
      • The closure of the school, and its traces
    • Mid Twentieth-century Developments
      • Division into flats
      • Occupants to 1974
      • Ernest and Sybil Willett
    • 1991: The Crucial Year
      • The move to Hastings
      • Leafletting
      • Planning application
      • Initial work on the house
      • The rear extension
      • The roof
    • From 1992 to the Present Day
      • 1992: decorating and the garden
      • 1993: Plasterwork, fanlight, French windows and rotten joists
      • 1994: decorating the hall and staircase
      • 1995: kitchen
      • 1996: front bedroom and garden wall
      • 1999: rear bathroom
      • 2001: more decorating
      • 2002: front gulley
      • 2004: restoring the well
      • 2011: rebuilding the chimneys
      • 2012: railings on West Hill
      • 2013-18: decorating
      • 2020: restoration of rear wall
      • Conclusion: overall cost
    • Timeline: Owners and Occupants
  • Timeline
  • Gallery

Gallery

1 Exmouth House from Exmouth Place

The Outside

1 Staircase

The Inside

19 Exmouth House before the construction of the garage. Photograph taken by Kenneth Gravett, Jan. 19

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© Michael Hunter 2024

Michael Hunter has lived at Exmouth House since 1991. He is Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of many books on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Britain, not least on the scientist Robert Boyle. Contact him at [email protected].