Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3602NE THE GREEN, Rottingdean
577-1/60/1069 (West side)
13/10/52 Aubrey House
(Formerly Listed as:
THE GREEN, Rottingdean
North End House)

GV II

Terraced house. The street front was added in 1889 to a
building of earlier date which is now largely obscured by
additions. The 1889 work was designed by WAS Benson for Sir
Edward Burne-Jones, who owned this house and Prospect Cottage
to the south (qv). Brick, now painted, render and tiles, the
roof of slate and tile.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with dormers, 2-window range. The ground
floor is treated as an arcade of 3 segmental arches and one
narrow round arch to the north, with buttresses between, the
heads of the arches formed of tiles set on edge. The
southernmost arch gives onto a porch with flat-arched
entrance, overlight and panelled door of original design; the
rest of the arcade is filled with sash windows. At first-floor
level there is one flat-arched casement to the south, then a
long run of casements with arcaded toplights, characteristic
of Benson's work, ending in a slim canted oriel which drops
below the level of the other windows; these windows lit a
studio and the deep oriel, like other windows of this date on
artists' houses in London, allowed finished paintings to be
removed from the studio. Eaves gutters; flat roof with wooden
railings to front, slated and tiled mansard to rear.
The rear elevation is partly rendered and partly
weatherboarded and is composed of a large number of balconies
and small-scale additions; some of these may have been due to
Burne-Jones and Benson, others were probably carried out for
the novelist Enid Bagnold, who owned this and the houses
either side for many years up to about 1970. A plaque by the
front porch records that Enid Bagnold lived in the house, and
that the novelist Angela Thirkell, Burne-Jones's
grand-daughter, visited there. Both are buried in the
churchyard opposite.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Burne-Jones G: Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones: London:
1909-: 195-7).

Listing NGR: TQ3684002566

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661144

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