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 the 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 Jagger and Robert Fraser for drugs 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.