With its dark cobbles and half-timbered buildings, Cobblestone Walk feels centuries old yet has only existed in its current incarnation for the last twenty years. Steyning residents with long memories will remember it as the village bakery, which was housed in the charming timbered cottage at the heart of the building, now Michael’s restaurant.

When the bakery extinguished its ovens for the last time in 1963, Steyning House, as it was then known, stood empty for nearly ten years. Set to become a supermarket, the development never got off the ground due to various legal wranglings.