Ovingdean Grange contains a hiding place said to have been used by Charles II when escaping from Oliver Cromwell after defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

This old postcard also mentions that later the novelist Harrison Ainsworth wrote a popular tale called Ovingdean Grange. He knew the house well.

For many years it was let by Brighton Council to Councillor Frank Masefield Baker who used it as a farmhouse. He jested that it was the best council house in Brighton.

The Grange was the home of Dr Harry Brunjes, an entertaining medical man, before being sold to the comedian Steve Coogan.