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Cedric Morris's home secures restoration funding
Country Life UK
|October 15, 2025
HE first phase of a project to restore Benton End House in Suffolk, once the home of celebrated artist and gardener Sir Cedric Morris and his lifelong partner, artist Arthur Lett-Haines, has received the green light following a $294,221 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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The initial phase of the work will include surveys of the roof and fabric of the building. Morris and Lett-Haines established the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Benton End and an early pupil was Lucian Freud. Elizabeth David, Vita Sackville-West
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