British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreted Bateman’s House Tour 2026

The tour will last approximately 1 hour, and we welcome those both Deaf and hearing to join.

2 - 3pm

Free, booking required. Normal admission applies. (Max 8 people)

Check availability and book the free tour here. Pay admission on the door.

Claim the i-go offer of up to two carers go free on entry. Remember to bring and show your i-go card

This offer is not to be used in conjunction with any other offer.

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Jacobean house, home of Rudyard Kipling

Bateman's is very much a family home that feels as though the Kiplings have just gone out for the day.

Surrounded by the wooded landscape of the Sussex Weald, this 17th-century house, with its mullioned windows and oak beams, provided a much needed sanctuary to this world-famous writer and inspired his work.

'That's She! The Only She! Make an honest woman of her - quick!' was how Rudyard Kipling and his wife, Carrie, felt the first time they saw Bateman's.

The rooms, described by him as 'untouched and unfaked', remain much as he left them, with oriental rugs and artefacts reflecting his strong association with the East. Kipling wrote Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies at Bateman's, which includes the poem ‘If’. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.