Redlands, West Wittering
Redlands is a Grade II listed country house estate in West Wittering, West Sussex, owned by the Rolling Stones' 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 famous 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
- ^ Payne, Stewart (25 September 2002). "Rolling Stone wants ramblers to fade away". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ Historic England. "Redlands (Grade II) (1026078)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ Richards, Keith (26 October 2010). Life. Little, Brown. pp. 187–188. ISBN 978-0-316-12856-8.
- ^ "JOHNNY DEPP read Keith Richards Audiobook OFFICIAL part 1 2". YouTube. 17 November 2016.
- ^ BBC News (10 May 1967). "BBC On This Day 1967: Two Rolling Stones on drugs charges". news.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ 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.
