Our vision for Standinghall is to create a diverse estate with good biodiversity and the ability to generate a sustainable income from forestry, farming, commercial letting and recreation. 

Standinghall originally formed part of the neighbouring Paddockhurst Estate until 2017. Paddockhurst still belongs to our broader family, but in 2018 we began to run Standinghall independently of the main estate.

Guests can stay with us at Coldharbour Cottage, our recently refurbished and beautifully furnished seventeenth century holiday let. Or from May to September, at the Embers 'Turners Hill' campsite. 

In the future we would like to offer practical estate activities as learning opportunities while contributing towards the environment and the surrounding High Weald. We are currently renovating a collection of barns where educational courses relating predominantly to land and nature based activities/courses can be run from.

A 10 year woodland management plan has been approved by the Forestry Commisson. Our objective is to work towards a continuous cover forestry model, focusing on natural regeneration. The woods are home to a variety of birds including Goshawk, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Firecrests.

We have undertaken some thinning works already under licence from the Forestry Commission. Including a clear fell of a Norway Spruce plantation which was supported through the Forestry Commission Tree Health Pilot grant scheme relating to Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips Typographus). The area is to be replanted with English Oak, Douglas Fir, Scots Pine and Wild Cherry. And a mixture of lower growing pollinators, Blackthorn, Hawthorn and Crabapple which will be planted along the roadside which forms our boundary.

Through grant funding we have just completed 2000m of stock fencing around the first area of farmland to be entered into Countryside Stewardship. This is low input grassland to be grazed by cattle.