Description

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ALDEBURGH

TM45NE LEISTON ROAD
837-1/2/32 (West side)
27/02/50 Red House

II

House. Late C17 core, extended to south early in C18 and given
a mid C19 facade to east, forming double-pile plan. Red brick;
machine tiled roofs with irregular stacks, including square
C17 chimney plinth on rear range, with 7 octagonal flues.
EXTERIOR: main front of 2 storeys and 3 bays: 2-storey
3-window extension to left. Main front has central double-leaf
door with glazed upper panels set behind a C20 glazed porch.
One 8/8 unhorned sash right and left; on first floor, three
similar sashes. Extension has half-glazed door between canted
bay window to right and two horned sashes with 8/8 glazing
bars to left: three similar sashes on first floor.
Rear: patches of irregular early C18 brickwork and casement
windows from various periods.
INTERIOR: one chamfered bridging beam with jewel stops to
north-west ground-floor room, the east stops cut off to allow
construction of main front block. Late C19 stick-baluster
staircase in front block.
HISTORY: This was the home of the composer Benjamin Britten
and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, who lived together at the
Red House from 1957 until Britten’s death in 1976.  Pears continued
to live there until his death in 1986. The Red House is now the home
of the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Listing NGR: TM4546857880

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Red House at Wikipedia
• Red House official website
• Wikidata Q26559810

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)