Redlands is a Grade II listed country house estate in West Wittering, West Sussex, owned by the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards.[1]
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.[2] [3]
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.[4] 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".[5]