Red House
RED HOUSE, LEISTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269711
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address:
- RED HOUSE, LEISTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269711
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED HOUSE, LEISTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RED HOUSE, LEISTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldeburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 45468 57880
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460466
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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