House & Family History: Crabbet is an L-shaped house of rose brick with stone dressings that sports a nine-bay front with a three-bay pedimented projection. In the early 20th century the house was the center of the Crabbet Club, a gathering of leading thinkers and politicians.

Comments: Pevsner, in "The Buildings of England: Sussex," writes that Crabbet is an "unexpected and memorable case of a neo-Queen-Anne in the true (not the Norman-Shaw) sense of the word at so early a date."

Garden & Outbuildings: In July of 1878 Wilfrid Scawen-Blunt and his wife, Lady Anne Blunt (a granddaughter of Lord Byron), established the Crabbet Park Stud, which imported the first Arabian horses to England, which helped to preserve the Arabian horse bloodlines. The early 20th century orangery (today offices) and tennis court are both extant.

House Listed: Grade II*

Park Listed: Not Listed

Past Seat / Home of: Wilfred Scawen-Blunt, until 1917; Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, until 1957; Blunt family here from the 18th century until 1957.

Current Ownership Type: Corporation

Primary Current Ownership Use: Offices

Ownership Details: The house and the orangery are used as the headquarters of Macro4; stables and stud buildings have been converted into flats.

House Open to Public: No

Website: https://www.macro4.com/

Historic Houses Member: No