The main house was originally called Bakers, owned in 1693 by John Hicks, mercer, and in 1703 by Thomas York, carpenter. By 1842, it was named Pantons. Unlike most of the other houses on the street, it is not listed, perhaps because it was substantially rebuilt in the 19thc.
(The former Coach House was extended in the 1980s for residential use – see separate entry).
Occupants
Before 1841: 1693 John Hicks, mercer 1703 Thomas York, carpenter
- 1841 Census
- Tithe Apportionment 1842 Owner Exrs of late Mrs Tindal; Occupier John Honeysett
- 1851 Census
1861 Census
1871 Census
| Name | Age | Rel | Occupation | Born |
| Thomas Crouch | Head | Gardener | 1808 Ewhurst Ssx | |
| Lucy Crouch | Wife | House Keeper | 1814 Heathfield | |
| Ellen Grant | Relative | Scholar | 1860 Warbleton |
1881 Census Pantons is shown as ‘uninhabited’
1891 Census to follow
1901 Census
| Name | Age | Rel | Occupation | Born |
| Martin R Hicks | 45 | Head | Farmer | 1856 Dallington |
| Harriett Hicks | 36 | Wife | 1865 Burwash | |
| Robert Hicks | 7 | Son | 1894 Burwash | |
| Florence H J Hicks | 5 | D | 1896 Burwash | |
| Ernest E Hicks | 4 | S | 1897 Burwash | |
| Ellen K Hicks | 2 | D | 1899 Cowbeech |
1911 Census
| Name | Age | Rel | Occupation | Born |
| George Niven Wood | 48 | Head | Private Means | 1863 Tunis Africa |
| Clara Bianca Wood | 48 | Wife | 1863 Florence Italy | |
| Leila Christina Wood | 7 | Dau | 1904 Burwash | |
| Sarah Rumsey | 51 | servant | Cook housekeeper | 1860 Darlington Durham |
1921 Census
September 1927 Lancelot Reeve Tatham (a distant relative of Rev Ralph Tatham) bought Pantons with his wife Doris Kathleen. “Quite recently, about September, 1927, Mr. L. R. Tatham has purchased, with a view to his residence there, Pantons, Dallington, Sussex, formerly owned by the Rev. Canon Ralph Raisbeck Tatham, Here resided and died the Canon’s second surv. dau., Miss Adeline Tatham. On her death, in 1900, the place was sold out of the family. It is good to know that, by happy chance, the old heritage thus reverts to a scion of the house of Tatham.” [quoted on a family history site, along with a quote from some anonymous family members “A number of elderly stalwarts remembered Lance Tatham who lived in a large old house in Dallington …they remembered childhood days of going to tea parties hosted by Lance and his wife in Dallington where the dress was suit and tie with everyone on their best behaviour.”
1939 Register
| Gerald C | Ross-Mumby | 19th June 1884 | Male | Married | Engineer Mechanical Retired |
| Elsie V | Ross-Mumby | 12th February 1899 | Female | Married | Poultry Farmer |
In 1940, a company of Devonshire Yeomanry was billeted in the village and used Pantons as their H.Q. Postwar residents include Vivien Drake, after a career on the London stage, who had numerous theatrical visitors in the 1940s and 50s and was active in the Dallington Amateur Dramatic Society
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