Editing Bateman's (section)

== Architecture and description ==
The house is built of [[sandstone]] to a double-pile plan, and is of two storeys with gables above.<ref name="auto"/> The eastern entrance, front may once have been symmetrical with a northern wing matching the southern one.<ref name="auto"/> [[Historic England]]'s listing states that the wing was constructed but later torn down,<ref name="auto"/> while [[Pevsner Architectural Guides|Pevsner]] suggests that it may never have been built.{{sfn|Antram|Pevsner|2013|p=295}} The windows are [[mullion window|mullioned]] and the roof has an "impressive row of six diamond-shaped red brick chimney stacks".<ref name="auto"/>

The interior is retained as it was in the time of the Kiplings.<ref name="auto"/> The study is almost as Kipling left it, although without the "pungent aroma" of his forty-a-day Turkish cigarette habit.{{sfn|Garnett|2015|p=24}} The house contains a significant collection relating to Kipling, amounting to nearly 5,000 individual pieces, including his Nobel Prize, his [[Rolls-Royce Phantom I]], many [[oriental]] items he purchased while living in India or touring in the East and paintings he collected by [[Edward Poynter]], [[Edward Burne-Jones]] and [[James Whistler]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/place/bateman's|title=Bateman's|publisher=National Trust Collections|website=www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk|access-date=18 March 2022}}</ref>

The garden was created by Kipling from 1907, using the prize money from his award of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].{{sfn|Jenkins|2003|pp=749-750}} The house is a [[Listed building|Grade I listed building]], the highest grade reserved for buildings of "exceptional interest".<ref name="auto"/>