Composer’s birthplace is up for sale
NewsThe windy old house in Lowestoft where Benjamin Britten was born and spent his childhood has been put up for sale at around £800,000. It has served for the past two decades as a seaview hotel.
Estate agents video here.
Amusing…. it looks exactly like his music sounds.
Ha! Talk about damning with faint praise! BTW: I disagree.
Not a very good picture – taken from the side, showing modern hotel extensions at the rear. When BB was there the house included his father’s dental surgery. For more, see https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/151883144#/?channel=RES_BUY
Ah, journalists…
As Miss Dickinson said, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
Lovely house.
Doesn’t the Britten Estate have any interest in buying the house?