There was a house shown on this site on the 1717 map of Glynde.

John Stanbridge, a weaver, had owned it at his death in 1671 and in 1679 his son Edward sold it to William Day, who already occupied the property, which was described as one tenementRented dwelling
or land, one small barn, close and garden containing one rod of land.

William Day died in 1688 and the house passed to his son, another William who, in turn, died in 1703. The house then passed to his brother Edward Day of Cuckfield who, in 1705, sold the property to Henry Burges [Burgess] of Glynde, wheelwright.

Henry Burgess died in 1731 leaving an inventory of his goods and the house passed to his wife, Ann, for the term of her life. The inventory is interesting because the house that Henry Burges occupied, unlike the current house named Wisdoms, had a cellar. From the Glynde land tax returns Henry Burges may well have lived at Harveys and this was the house where his inventory was taken.

Henry Burges’ widow, Ann, was buried at Glynde on 26 May 1754, and Edmund Burgess, their youngest son, was then admitted to the premises. Edmund, also a wheelwright, died in 1757 and by the terms of his will the property passed to his wife Jane for her life or until she remarried. Jane Burgess lived at Harveys and in 7 November 1765 she married William Farncombe of Denton, farmer, and relinquished her title to Wisdoms.

Edmund Burgess the eldest son of Edmund and Jane inherited the property under the terms of his father’s will and sold the property to John Wisdom of Glynde, carpenter, in 1766. The property was chargeable for £20 each to the four other children of Edmund and Jane. It is from the Wisdom family’s ownership of the property that the house gets its modern name.