As the name suggests, this building was originally the coach house that served nearby Pantons (see history of the main house here) . It was subsequently used as a poultry shed, and garden store before being converted and extended for residential use in the 1980s.
For several years in the 1960s the land was operated as a smallholding by Phil Latter, a policeman living in South Lane. He is remembered by a family friend from Brightling, writing in The Messenger magazine in 2021 :
“Another close friend, Phil Latter, would often call to see us…, stooping low to clear the door and doffing his trilby with an ‘Evening all’. As a young policeman he was seconded to Dallington in 1938 and lodged at Four Winds, where he still lived when we first met him in the late 1960s. By then his time was spent on his small holding at Dallington from where he sold fruit and veg. He’d often be sat in his armchair in the Coach House, a big old building crammed full of gardening tools. Once we found him in his beekeeping suit. He sold honeycomb and pots of honey locally, as well as to Fortnum and Mason. The gold and black label on the honey jars – ‘P J Latter’s Sussex Honey’ – was designed by my mother and included a pen and ink drawing of his beehives“
Dallington History 