Firle Place

About this place

Firle Place, in East Sussex, has been home to the Gage family since the late fifteenth century.

The house sits at the foot of the South Downs, near the village of Firle, and holds an important collection of Old Master paintings and Sèvres porcelain.

Much of what visitors see today dates from an eighteenth-century remodelling in the Georgian style, carried out over several decades under the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Gage, giving the house the character of a classical French château in Caen stone.

General Thomas Gage, the British commander-in-chief at the outbreak of the American War of Independence, was born here.