Thursley, a house 80 metres from the sea in the 1940s pictured just before demolition due on April 4th 2011, Easton Bavents
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Easton Bavents, Southwold, SuffolkMore information:
“Easton Bavents cliff top house to be knocked down” A treasured family home at risk of crumbling into the sea is to be demolished before Mother Nature can take hold. Sitting on the cliff edge at Easton Bavents, near Southwold, Thursley has been in the Thrawle family for four generations. While a groundbreaking policy recently approved by the local council gives hope to Suffolk homeowners facing coastal erosion, it comes too late for this isolated, two-storey building. The house will be demolished on April 4. Brother and sister Andrew Thrawle and Sally Mitchell, who have spent summers at the house since childhood, will watch as the bulldozers move in. ““It’s frightening to see just how much land has disappeared over the years, ” said Mr Thrawle, a purchase manager who lives in Warwickshire. “We were served with the demolition order by Waveney District Council two years ago, but that was stayed while we waited to see if more cliff to disappear. “Now the cliff either side has now started to crumble and we’ve agreed with the demolition contractors that it’s time to go ahead.” The house was built by an architect called Abercrombie in the 1930s. Named after the Surrey village he came from, the house was one of three – all prototypes for what would have become a sprawling estate, complete with tennis courts and swimming pool, had the Second World War not arrived. When William Thrawle bought Thursley from the government in the 1940s it sat some 80 metres away from the cliff edge. Source: East Anglia Daily Times