Writers’ retreats
Rudyard Kipling’s Bateman’s, Sussex
hen Kipling first set eyes on Bateman’s in 1902, he exclaimed: ‘This is she! Let’s make a good, honest woman of her quick.’ The Jacobean house was a period property even in its day, and he loved that it had no modern additions. It was here, sitting at the desk in the study, that Kipling wrote many of the works that would immortalise his name. In 1939, the)
