BRAMBLETYE HOUSE, a ruin 2½ miles SE of East Grinstead, in Sussex. It possesses little intrinsic interest, but has some notoriety through Horace Smith's romance. The house was built, in the time of James I., by Sir Henry Compton; and belonged, in 1683, to Sir James Rickards, who fled from it under a charge of treason.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))