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Coffee roasters in West Sussex

West Sussex has 14 independent coffee roasters spread across the county, from the coast at Littlehampton up to the market towns and villages of the South Downs and Wealden country. The mix is unusually varied. A decaf specialist that was first in Europe with single origin Swiss Water, a 1960s family roastery still in third generation hands, a B Corp running ten cafes across Sussex, and a string of newer specialty operations all share the territory.

Decadent Decaf Coffee Company, founded in 2014 and based a mile from the sea, was the first business in Europe to offer single origin Swiss Water Process decaf and remains entirely focused on decaffeinated coffee; the range is deliberately narrow. Kendricks, in Ferring, was founded in 1964 by Thalben Kendrick Loydell and is now run by his son Philip and grandson Rob, making it (by their own claim) the longest running family coffee roastery and tea blender in Sussex. Trading Post Coffee Roasters opened on Ship Street in Brighton in January 2017 and by 2024 had grown to ten coffee houses across Sussex. Family run, B Corp certified, with open view roasteries built into their cafe spaces.

Several West Sussex roasters have visitor spaces open to the public. The South Downs and the Sussex coast make for a good combined day out: a roastery visit, lunch on the coast, an afternoon walk on the Downs. The county sits at a useful midpoint between London and the south coast, which shows in how many of the roasters here run sizeable wholesale operations.

14 roasters Updated May 2026

Notable in West Sussex

Three roasters that illustrate the breadth of the local scene. Selected on editorial criteria, not commercial relationship. See our editorial standards for how we choose.

Decadent Decaf Coffee Company

Decadent Decaf Coffee Company has been a 100% decaf specialty roaster since 2014, focused exclusively on Swiss Water Pro...

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First in Europe to roast single origin Swiss Water decaf, since 2014.

Kendricks is a family coffee roastery and tea blender in Ferring, West Sussex, founded in 1964 by Thalben Kendrick Loyde...

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Sussex family roastery since 1964, now in its third generation.

Trading Post Coffee Roasters

Trading Post Coffee Roasters opened its first coffee house on Ship Street in Brighton in January 2017, combining a coffe...

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B Corp, ten coffee houses across Sussex from a 2017 Brighton start.

17 Grams is a Brighton-based specialty coffee roastery with brunch cafes across Sussex in Brighton, Hove and Chichester....

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Cast Iron Coffee Roasters

Cast Iron Coffee Roasters is a family-run speciality roastery and coffee shop based at Units 11 and 12 The Mill, Stane S...

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Coffee Compass is a family-run roastery on the South Coast of England, based at Fort Road in Wick, Littlehampton. It roa...

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Coffee Real Ltd

Founded in early 2008, Coffee Real roasts speciality coffee in Horsham, West Sussex, working directly with farming famil...

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Craft House Coffee

Craft House Coffee is an independent West Sussex roastery that sources 100 percent high-grade Arabica with an 80-plus SC...

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Cuckfield Coffee Co.

Cuckfield Coffee Co. was founded in 2021 by Paul and Nardine, a couple who left previous careers to set up an independen...

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Decadent Decaf Coffee Company

Decadent Decaf Coffee Company has been a 100% decaf specialty roaster since 2014, focused exclusively on Swiss Water Pro...

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EDGE Tea & Coffee

EDGE Tea & Coffee is a third-generation, family-run roastery near Arundel in West Sussex, founded in 1981 by Frank Edgcu...

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Littlestone Coffee now trades as Glorious Beans, a small Sussex roastery based at Northlands Business Park in Horsham. I...

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Horsham Coffee Roaster

Horsham Coffee Roaster started in 2012 in a garage in West Sussex with a 1kg roaster, selling at Horsham food market bef...

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Kendricks is a family coffee roastery and tea blender in Ferring, West Sussex, founded in 1964 by Thalben Kendrick Loyde...

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Lindfield Coffee Works

Lindfield Coffee Works was founded in 2015 in Lindfield, West Sussex and has grown into a multi-site operation with a fl...

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Rockhopper Roaster

Rockhopper Roaster is a micro-roastery founded by Kate, a one-person operation that started in Bognor Regis and has sinc...

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Trading Post Coffee Roasters

Trading Post Coffee Roasters opened its first coffee house on Ship Street in Brighton in January 2017, combining a coffe...

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