Half a mile to the north west is Great Dixter, one of the finest timber framed buildings in Sussex. The house is believed to be basically 15th. century, but was carefully rebuilt by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1911. It is open to the public. Its garden is noted for its box and yew hedges. Flint cottages and farm buildings occupy an exposed spot on the South Downs by the side of the road from Brighton to Hurstpierpoint.
Some distance away is the village church which is small and built of flint and pebbledash.
It dates from the 12th. century. Tracks lead off to the remains of ancient burial grounds, Iron Age forts and Celtic field systems on the open South Downs. National Trust woods, known as Newtimber, lie half a mile to the west. Pyecombe was once a shepherds village, and was well known as a centre from which shepherds crooks were supplied. The top of the churchyard gate is in the shape of a crook, which is also used as the village sign.