Aubrey House
AUBREY HOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380998
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Aubrey House
- Statutory Address:
- AUBREY HOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380998
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Aubrey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AUBREY HOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- AUBREY HOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rottingdean
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 36840 02566
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481341
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Burne Jones, G, Memorials of Edward Burne Jones, (1909), 195-197
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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