Houses & gardens in East SussexEast Sussex, England

Kipling's Jacobean house and mill garden.

George IV’s Indian-style seaside palace.

A medieval hall house in Alfriston that was the very first building the National Trust ever bought

The Bloomsbury Group's Sussex home below Firle Beacon, its rooms and walled garden painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

A weatherboarded cottage by the River Ouse, home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf from 1919

A restored walled garden in Stanmer Park, run as a horticultural training ground with ornamental borders, glasshouses and a kitchen plot. Free entry.

Grade I manor with formal walled gardens and rolling borders, best known for its spring tulip festival.

A hall house from the Middle Ages, rebuilt by Lutyens, with a garden made internationally famous by one deeply opinionated gardener

Capability Brown lakes ablaze in autumn.

Ornamental garden, wildflower meadow and ancient bluebell wood share one farm near the Cuckmere valley.

A Georgian townhouse in Rye that gave two novelists somewhere quiet to write

Influential nursery garden near Laughton, planted in bold drifts of perennials and grasses in the naturalistic style.

Naturalistic colour-themed borders wind through a Wealden nursery garden, with a cafe and plants for sale.

Sarah Raven's Wealden cutting garden, planted for tulips and dahlias and used for her gardening courses.

Hastings' big Victorian park, laid out in a valley with a lake and mature trees, a short walk from the station

A big slice of Sussex parkland, once part of an even bigger estate, now a Christian conference centre with grounds open to visitors

Some of Sussex's oldest walled gardens, with a yew topiary chess garden.

An Elizabethan manor under the downs, with grounds important enough to be registered in their own right

An 18th-century house among sandstone boulders, once home to poet Dorothy Wellesley.

A Grade II*-listed historic park and garden in East Sussex.