Burwash Property For Sale and Rent
Burwash is a village of old houses, many from
the Tudor and Stuart periods (and a few even earlier), and some
of the old ironmasters' residences. The houses are largely in
the one main street, long and wide, which follows a high ridge.
Burwash History & Information
One of the old ironmasters' houses is
Bateman's, which was the home of Rudyard Kipling from 1902 until
his death in 1936. It is now a museum and contains many of his
possessions. His study is maintained exactly as it was when he
used it, including the huge 10-ft-long desk, untidily crowded
with the things he kept on it. There is a fine staircase and
some excellent Jacobean panelling.
The house is set in pleasant
gardens, with ancient yews and other trees, largely as the Kiplings laid them out.
Bateman's is open at advertised times. The Parish Church of St Bartholemew
has a Norman tower and some Norman windows,
some fine lancet windows, and a
15th-cent. octagonal font.
On a wall
near the south door is a small, oval bronze plaque to the memory of
Kipling's only son, John, killed at the age
of 18 at the Battle of Loos in 1915; it was the first
commissioned work of Sir Charles Wheeler.
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