Aubrey House

Aubrey House is a terraced house located on The Green, Rottingdean, originally dating from an earlier period but with a street front added in 1889. The design for the 1889 work was by W.A.S. Benson for Sir Edward Burne-Jones, who owned the property along with Prospect Cottage to the south. The house is constructed of brick, now painted, with render and tiles, and has a slate and tile roof.

The exterior is two storeys with dormers, arranged as a two-window range. The ground floor features an arcade of three segmental arches and one narrow round arch to the north, with buttresses between. The heads of the arches are formed of tiles set on edge. The southernmost arch leads to a porch with a flat-arched entrance, an overlight, and a panelled door of original design. The remaining arches are filled with sash windows. At first-floor level, there is one flat-arched casement to the south, followed by a run of casements with arcaded toplights, a characteristic feature of Benson's work. A slim canted oriel window is positioned at the end, dropping below the level of the other windows; this lit a studio, and the deep oriel, similar to those found on artists’ houses in London, allowed finished paintings to be removed. The eaves have gutters, and the front has a flat roof with wooden railings, while the rear has a mansard roof of slate and tile.

The rear elevation is partly rendered and partly weatherboarded, and includes a large number of balconies and smaller additions. Some of these additions may have been carried out by Burne-Jones and Benson, while others were likely added for the novelist Enid Bagnold, who owned the property, alongside the adjacent houses, for many years until around 1970. A plaque by the front porch commemorates Enid Bagnold’s residency and notes visits by Angela Thirkell, Burne-Jones's granddaughter. Both are buried in the opposite churchyard.

The interior has not been inspected.