Walls To Kipling Gardens And Related Buildings

The garden walls at Kipling Gardens in Rottingdean are likely from the 18th and 19th centuries. They are constructed from flint and cobbles with red brick dressings, stretching approximately 70 meters along the south side up to a public shelter. This shelter, which is a former outbuilding of The Elms, is made of flint with brick dressings and features a tiled roof, a bracketed awning to the south, and is open on the north and east sides with gabled dormers and a hipped roof. There is an additional 10 meters of walling at the south-west corner.

On the west side, the walls extend about 75 meters and include some brickwork that may relate to cottages that were once on the site. The north side has approximately 80 meters of wall, which includes two sets of gates. The east side also measures around 80 meters, leading to a renovated garage building associated with The Elms, plus a further stretch of about 20 meters.

Inside the gardens, there are three more ranges of walls: one approximately 25 meters east of the west wall, measuring about 80 meters; another about 15 meters east of that, approximately 75 meters long; and a third running east-west, about 8 meters south of the north wall, which is around 60 meters in length. The gardens also feature a pergola with flint columns at the center and two lean-to sheds made of flint with brick dressings and flat-arched windows at the north-west corner. These sheds are believed to have been outhouses linked to cottages that were located at that corner of the gardens. Throughout the walls, there are various openings, some rebated for doors or gates.

Originally, the listing applied only to the boundary walls of The Elms garden, but it has now been extended to include all the walls that became part of Kipling Gardens when it was opened to the public in 1983.