Britten-Pears Archive Building, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

The Britten-Pears Foundation have a considerable archive of manuscripts, film, and stage production material from the archive of Sir Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. At the moment the archive is stored in a number of buildings around Britten’s house in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and the objective of this project is to create a single building to house the complete archive in a secure environment. The design embodies the principles for archive storage set out in BS 5454, requiring the building to have a precisely controlled environment, high thermal mass, and four hour fire resistance.

The project is at the conceptual design stage, and is to be submitted for planning in the autumn.

Architect Stanton Williams Architects