Excavations in the cellar of the The Sussex Arms revealed timber piles and a timber foundation raft sealing a midden of domestic refuse of 17th century date. Finds included clay pipes, pottery and glass sherds. The timber remains were identified as the foundation elements of a substantial structure or structures. Summary from record TQ 53 NE 67: An excavation in the cellar of the Sussex Arms public house in Sussex Mews in the Pantiles in 1989 revealed the timber foundation of a substantial structure or structures on the same alignment as the rest of the Mews. Artefacts indicated a seventeenth century or slightly later date.