Redlands, West Wittering

Redlands
Redlands Lane, where the Redlands country house is located
General information
Status	Private home
Type	Country house
Architectural style	Timber-frame
Classification	Grade II listed
Address	Redlands Lane
Town or city	West Wittering, West Sussex
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	50°47′27″N0°52′12″W / 50.79090°N 0.87013°W / 50.79090; -0.87013
Year(s) built	16th century
Owner	Keith Richards
Technical details
Material	Brick, flint, thatch
Floor count	2
Known for	The Rolling Stones' Redlands bust

Redlands is a Grade II listed country house estate in West Wittering, West Sussex, England, owned by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. ^{[1] [2]}

In his autobiography, Richards describes purchasing the property in 1966:

"We just spoke to each other the minute we saw each other. A thatched house, quite small, surrounded by a moat. I drove up there by mistake...I took a wrong turn and turned into Redlands. This guy walked out, very nice guy, and said, yeah? And I said, oh sorry, we've come to the wrong turning. He said, yes, you want to go Fishbourne way, and he said, are you looking for a house to buy? He was very pukka, an ex-commodore of the Royal Navy. And I said yes." ^{[3] [4]}

Redlands was the scene of the notorious February 1967 police raid, the subsequent arrest of Richards and Mick Jagger and prison sentences for Richards, Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser for drug possession. ^[5] The house is described in Pevsner as "large, moated, with timber-framed 16th-century centre, and brick and flint wings, all under a thatched roof". ^[6]

References

1. Payne, Stewart (25 September 2002). "Rolling Stone wants ramblers to fade away". Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 1 August 2014.
2. Historic England. "Redlands (Grade II) (1026078)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 July 2024.
3. Richards, Keith (26 October 2010). Life . Little, Brown. pp.  187–188. ISBN   978-0-316-12856-8.
4. "JOHNNY DEPP read Keith Richards Audiobook OFFICIAL part 1 2". YouTube . 17 November 2016.
5. "BBC On This Day 1967: Two Rolling Stones on drugs charges". BBC News . UK: BBC. 10 May 1967. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
6. Williamson, Elizabeth; Hudson, Tim; Musson, Jeremy; Nairn, Ian (2019). Sussex: West. Buildings of England. Yale University Press. p. 714. ISBN   978-0-300-22521-1.