County guide · The Stately Homes
Best stately homes in East Sussex
East Sussex is a writers' county - Kipling's Bateman's, Virginia Woolf's Monk's House and Henry James's Lamb House - alongside the family-held Firle Place beneath the Downs.
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Every stately home on this list - 5 in total, 1 you can stay overnight in
Bateman's
East Sussex
17th-century Jacobean house that was the home of author Rudyard Kipling
Monk's House
East Sussex
Weatherboarded cottage in Rodmell that was the country home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Firle Place
East Sussex
Home of the Gage family since the 15th century.
Lamb House
East Sussex
Georgian house in Rye, home of writer Henry James and later E.F. Benson
Glynde Place
East Sussex
Elizabethan flint-and-brick house overlooking the South Downs.