Bateman's was Rudyard Kipling's home from 1902 until his death in 1936. Of Bateman's
Kipling wrote in Something of Myself, "We had seen an advertisement of her,
and we reached her down an enlarged rabbit-hole of a lane.
At very first sight the Committee of Ways and Means said 'That's her! The only She! Make an honest woman of her - quick!'. We entered and felt her Spirit - her Feng Shui - to be good. We went through every room and found no shadow of ancient regrets, stifled miseries, nor any menace though the 'new' end of her was three hundred years old... ."
Bateman's is a National Trust property with free entry for National Trust members.
