National Art Pass offers available at The Red House

50% off entry
£10  £5 Standard entry price
IndividualTiana Clarke Please note this is an example card and not a reflection of the final product

50% off entry at The Red House

The National Art Pass lets you enjoy free entry to hundreds of museums, galleries and historic places across the UK, while raising money to support them.

Museum

The Red House

Aldeburgh

With a National Art Pass you get

50% off entry
£10 £5 Standard entry price
IndividualTiana Clarke Please note this is an example card and not a reflection of the final product

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The National Art Pass lets you enjoy free entry to hundreds of museums, galleries and historic places across the UK, while raising money to support them.

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The house Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears shared for nearly two decades has been carefully restored to how it would have looked in the mid-1960s.

The house celebrates the work of the composer Benjamin Britten and his long-term personal and professional partner, Peter Pears.

The couple moved to Red House on the outskirts of Aldeburgh in 1957, wishing to lead a more private life than they could at their seafront property (Britten's fame was at its height at this time). They agreed to exchange houses with the artist Mary Potter, who was looking to downsize, and whose home they knew well having joined her for tennis matches in its large garden.

The couple were delighted to be away from 'the gaping faces' and to finally have the space to create a studio where Britten could 'bang away to [his] heart's content'. They lived at Red House for the rest of their lives.

Today the house has been recreated to look as it would have in the 1960s, based on a 1965 room inventory and the memories of their families and friends.

It reflects a normal domestic home of the 1950-80s; as well as everyday items it also includes their personal possessions - for example, Pears' collections of decorative Staffordshire-style Kings Charles spaniels, a sewing kit once belonging to Britten's sister Beth and the pair's monogrammed suitcases and clothes.

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