Woolf spent annual summer holidays at Talland House with her family when she was a child between 1882 and 1894.
Gale said: “The view is indelibly associated with her throughout her life.
“The view will remain, but what is important is the association between that view and Talland House.
“St Ives should always be associated with Virginia Woolf.
“This view is really important and it needs preserving.”
Emeritus Professor Maggie Humm, vice chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, said: “The view is in all her modernist novels. It’s in Jacob’s Room, The Waves and, of course, [one of her most famous works] To the Lighthouse.
“She even called her first Sussex home, Little Talland House, so it’s absolutely crucial to her.
“It’s absolutely crucial to Woolfians, who come from all over the world to visit this house.”
