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Sackville College is a Jacobean Almshouse founded by Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, in 1609 and still in use as an Almshouse today. The College is a Grade 1 Listed Building and built of Sussex sandstone around a quadrangle and contains large mullioned windows and four exquisite old doorways, the northern one of which bears the Dorset Coat of Arms. This almshouse is a splendid example of Jacobean architecture.The College’s connection with the Sackville family goes back to the year 1609 and the will of Robert Sackville. This provided a sum of money with which to buy land and “build a convenient house of brick and stone” to be used as an almshouse. For many years the College had a second use, too: providing overnight accommodation for the Sackville family as they journeyed to and from their estates in Sussex. The heads of the Sackville family have been Patrons of the College through its history. The present Patron is the 11th Earl De La Warr .The College still provides affordable accommodation, now modernized and comfortable, for elderly people. They each have their own flats and the use of the common room and the chapel behind the walls of a perfectly preserved quadrangle.The College is a charitable foundation which operates according to an act of Parliament of 1624 and a Royal Charter of 1631.