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The Red House, Aldeburgh

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209:. Following the Potters' divorce and Stephen Potter's departure from Aldeburgh, Mary Potter and Britten exchanged houses in 1957, Potter taking Crag House, which Britten had bought in 1947. Britten lived at the house as his main residence until his death in 1976; after Pears' death a decade later, it was established as the base for the Britten-Pears Foundation. The Britten-Pears Foundation reinstated Britten's grand piano to the first-floor studio in the Red House grounds as part of a £4.7 million restoration project in 2013. The Foundation promotes Britten and Pears' music legacy, and the buildings and grounds at The Red House serve this end, being open to the public and the setting for an archive of Britten's work, exhibition spaces, and a centre for music research. The Foundation also manages the house and the associated art collection, including sculpture by 141: 29: 1460: 148: 225:
The original farmhouse was constructed of red brick, on a timber frame in the late 17th century. Extensions in the 18th and 19th centuries created a house of a double-pile plan, with two storeys and three bays. Further extensions were made in the twentieth century during Britten's ownership, and
217:. The art collection, comprising some 1,300 works, is predominately that built up by Britten and Pears, although the Foundation has made acquisitions of its own, either of art relating to Britten's work, or of artists influenced by him. 322:
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The origins of the house are late-17th century when the building was a farmhouse. Extended in the three subsequent centuries, it was bought in 1951 by the writer
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subsequently by the Britten-Pears Foundation. These include a porch by Peter Collymore from 1967, studios by Collymore and by
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from the 1950s and 1960s, an Exhibition Gallery from 1993 and an Archive Building from 2011-13 by
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Aldeburgh
Suffolk
52°09′53″N 1°35′16″E / 52.1646°N 1.5879°E / 52.1646; 1.5879
Listed Building
The Red House, Aldeburgh is located in Suffolk
Aldeburgh
Suffolk
Benjamin Britten
Peter Pears
Britten Pears Arts
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Stephen Potter
Mary Potter
Geoffrey Clarke
Georg Ehrlich
H. T. Cadbury-Brown
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