Writer in Residence
Oct 26, 2021
3 minutes
FEATURE JANET GLEESON PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREAS VON EINSIEDEL EXTERIOR SHOT NATIONAL TRUST IMAGES/JOHN MILLER
Built from honey-coloured sandstone quarried nearby, with a roof of Wealden clay tiles and beams hewn from local oak, Bateman’s is inseparable from its surroundings. ‘To me, the house feels as if it grows straight out of the valley; it is part of the landscape,’ says Gary Enstone, curator of Rudyard Kipling’s family home. The author and his wife, Carrie, took up residence in this Sussex backwater in 1902. It was partly his
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