2-941-547 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Hartshorn House, Mermaid Street, Rye, Rother, East Sussex, 1905. A view showing Hartshorn House on Mermaid Street with two boys standing in the foreground. In the negative index for the collection, the photographer has recorded the scene as 'The Hospital, Mermaid Street'. This is a reference to when the building was used as a hospital in the Napoleonic wars.