The Sugar Loaf is said to have been designed to win a bet.

While carousing at his home one night, the story goes, Jack Fuller wagered that he could see the spire of Dallington church from his top window.  Since the sober light of day revealed that he couldn't, he swiftly had a new folly run up to fool his guest the next time he visited.

 

The odd building stands about forty feet high with a narrow entrance facing north-east and a single window due north.  At its base the walls are eighteen inches thick, and its beaten-earth floor is about fourteen feet in diameter.

 

In the late 19th century, the building was used as a two storey cottage for a farmworker.  

 

The Sugar Loaf was saved from demolition by public subscription and restored in 1961.  It takes its name from the similarity to the shape in which sugar was delivered to grocers.

 

 

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Just off the B2096, 5 miles east of Heathfield

 

 

 

 

 

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