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Latitude: 52.1646 / 52°9'52"N
Longitude: 1.5879 / 1°35'16"E
OS Eastings: 645468
OS Northings: 257880
OS Grid: TM454578
Mapcode National: GBR YZX.695
Mapcode Global: VHM7X.GVSJ
Plus Code: 9F435H7Q+R4
Entry Name: Red House
Listing Date: 27 February 1950
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1269711
English Heritage Legacy ID: 460466
Also known as: The Red House, Aldeburgh
ID on this website: 101269711
Location: East Suffolk, IP15
County: Suffolk
District: East Suffolk
Civil Parish: Aldeburgh
Built-Up Area: Aldeburgh
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Aldeburgh St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: House Historic site
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 8/9/2016
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
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