Like many of the farms in Beddingham the history of Court Farm is difficult to trace as a whole. There had been three manors in Beddingham: Beddingham, Combe and Preston Beckhelwyn, and each would probably have had its own manor house and demesne land that went with the manor house and provided income for the lord of the manor.

William Morley, owner of the Glynde estate, purchased the manors of Beddingham and Combe in 1563 from Sir Edward Windsor for £1400. The manors comprised 26 messuageHouse or dwelling,
inc. outbuildings &
orchard, courtyard
or gardenss, 20 cottages, 6 barns, 1 dovehouse, 3 gardens, 2 orchards, 600 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 50 acres of fresh marsh, and realised 40s in [manorial] rent.

Part of the premises were occupied by John Walker at a rent of £20 a year with a provision that at the end of Walker's lease it would pass to Bartholomew Garrowey.

However, the purchase does not appear to have gone entirely smoothly. In a lease and agreement of 22 June 1574 between William Morley and Bartholomew Garrowey of Beddingham, gent, Morley and his family had the use of the 'new lodging', the old parlour and the buttery within the parlour, the study by the parlour, the 'Canabie' chamber and the study within the same, the coal house, the wet larder and the room above. Morley and Garrowey had the use in common of the barns called the Great Barn and the West Barn, the stable next to the men servants lodging and the little room in the stable and the hay loft above, the 'Conigree' and the garden.

The agreement also recites that Garrowey had surrendered his lease to William Morley for £300 but the premises were leased to Garrowey again from Michaelmas [29 September] next. There were 50 acres of wheat, 60 acres of barley, 20 acres of pease with beans and 40 acres of meadow mowed or ready to be mowed, and Morley allowed Garrowey to have the corn, grass and hay until the following Whitsun.

The same day Bartholomew Garrowey surrendered his claim to the manor of Beddingham to William Morley.

These premises then became all or part of what is now known as Court House Farm, the manor house becoming the farmhouse.

In 1625 William Morley's son Robert leased the "site of the manor of Beddingham, barns, etc and demesne lands, and all the demesne lands of the manor of Combe, all in Beddingham, to Christopher Younge of Beddingham, yeoman, for 21 years at a rent of £195 a year". Younge was already the occupier of the farm so this was a renewal of the lease. The manor of Combe had by this time lost its manor house and the demesne lands had now become part of what is now known as Court House Farm.

In 1698 the two farms had separated. Combe Farm, 140 acres, was let to Richard Ifold of Beddingham, yeoman, at £60 a year, and "Court Lodge, barn, stables, etc, Court Farm, and 205 acres in Beddingham, Glynde and South Malling" were let to John Crawley of Beddingham, yeoman, for 4 years at £125 per year.

In 1708 John Morley Trevor, owner of the Glynde Estate, leased Court Farm, now 211 acres, and Combe Farm, 140 acres, to John Crawley, for 15 years at £213 a year.

In 1775 the farm was leased for 16 years at £300 to Thomas Soloman and Thomas Carr of Beddingham, gentlemen, and in 1839 it was let to Thomas Ellman of Beddingham, gent., and son of John Ellman the elder of Glynde, at £550 per annum.

In 1846 George Hylands of Ringmer, butcher, was sentenced to ten years transportation for stealing four sheep from Court House Farm, the property of Thomas Ellman.

In 1867 the estate re-organised their farms in Beddingham and a farm containing 943 acres and including Court House, Little Preston, and part of Cobb Place, lately occupied by Thomas Ellman, John Jenner and Henry Perceval Hart, was leased at £1500 a year to Charles Ellis of Streat Place in Streat, Sussex.

The re-organisation of the farms was reversed by 1878 when Thomas Ellman returned to the farm as tenant.