In 2012 during excavation prior to redevelopment, the original bear pit located at the centre of the gardens was exposed, and was Grade II listed in 2014. In 2016, plans for a residential estate on the site proposed to leave the pit buried and commemorate it with a plaque. Remains of the Cliff Top Entrance designed and built by James Pulham in 1869 Survive. The Statues seen in some photos were moved to the nearby fountain walk estate, and the front half was sheared off for the development of the factory that was to built on the site. The staircase that winds through the cliff is intact, with remnants of gas-lighting pipework and an iron handrail can be seen. The original path down was removed, and a metal staircase was installed to allow workers to access the factory during the war. In literature Rosherville is mentioned in The Newcomes (vol. 2 chapter 6) by William Makepeace Thackeray, where its Gothic Hall is singled out for its gaudiness. It is referred to in Francis Burnand and Arthur Sullivan's 1866 comic opera Cox and Box "Visions of Brighton and back, and of ROSHERVILLE, Cheap fare excursions already the squash I feel" It is referred to in Gilbert & Sullivan's 1877 comic opera "The Sorcerer" Act 2. Mr Wells sings "Hate me! I sometimes go to ROSHERVILLE!", to which Lady Sangazure responds "Love me! that joy I'll share!". It is referred to in P. G. Wodehouse's first Jeeves story, Jeeves Takes Charge: "There is a story about Sir Stanley Gervase-Gervase at Rosherville Gardens which is ghastly in its perfection of detail. It seems that Sir Stanley – but I can't tell you!" It is also mentioned as a "place to spend a happy day" in chapter 13 of E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet. George Gissing's short story Lou and Liz (1893) is almost entirely set in Rosherville Gardens. It is further mentioned as "the place whereat to spend a happy day" in Chapter XV of R.S.S. Baden-Powell's 1915 Memories of India. Mentioned in Michael Sadleir's Fanny by Gaslight, 1940, Constable pp 175–176 In the Henry James story An International Episode Lord Lambeth says to an American tourist, "I wonder you don't go to the Rosherville Gardens." James also mentions the Gardens in his travel piece "London in the Dead Season - September 7, 1878" and describes an excursion he made to