The Beautiful 1920s House Lost to the Sea | The Red House, Thorpeness, Suffolk

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Hello folks, this isn't an art-related video this time, but I would like to share more of myself and my interests on this channel so that it doesn't become dominated entirely by art hauls and swatching! I've always had a love of documenting day-to-day life (I owned a camcorder back in 1994 and "vlogged" before vlogging was even a thing!), and I feel recently that it's more important then ever to share my surroundings, especially things that are rapidly changing, or in this case, are soon to be lost forever. In this short film I'll share a trip to Thorpeness with my mum on 24th October 2022; we'd heard that a beautiful 100 year old house was soon to be demolished due to the rapidly eroding coastline. The house was perilously close to the cliff edge when we visited, and as it turned out, just five days later it no longer existed, having been dismantled before it fell over the edge. I tried to film the house in a respectful way, and I was indeed very touched by the thought that this wonderful building only had a few days left - I'm thankful that we got there in time and that I managed to document this moment. Natasha xxx

[@leighrogers1383]

A sobering...an beautiful reminder that so much of what we make and do is temporary....unlike the mighty ocean.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Very true.

[@michellewutzke2935]

Man can do whatever he likes but I think in the end Mother Nature has the final say. This home must have been glorious in its prime. Very interesting to watch. Thank you! ❤️❤️

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Very true!

[@lindakazel4273]

Thank you for your deeply sensitive farewell to this beautiful home. How tragic for the owner and the home’s history. Your film honored it perfectly. Thank you.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Apparently the current owners have another home, but they've owned this one for 25 years and rented it out as a gorgeous holiday home.

[@mariamontgomery2610]

Thanks for sharing this

[@watercolourartincapetown2919]

I loved the early videos on your channel where you’d visit your mom or walk us to the seaside and through the trees. Natasha you have such a relaxing voice 🎙 🎥 Love this nostalgic video! Documentary style and the music makes it so So eerie 🏡 🌊 🐚

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I'm so glad that you enjoy this type of video. :) I love making them, but they're the least popular type of video on my channel according to my stats! They don't seem to appeal to my audience, which makes me feel a bit sad. Everyone just wants art hauls and swatching type of videos, generally speaking! Thank you for enjoying these ones. :)

[@watercolourartincapetown2919]

I think the art has are fun, they help to build a bigger audience. But for me these videos are my favourite, I can watch them and they inspire to get creative. They inspire to get outside, even though they get very little views I believe these are the ones that help you connect to your audience and show what you’re passionate about. When I see the greys and the blues and rusty browns and greens then I can understand your choice of colour palette. Ps. That abandoned piece of wood with the 2 rusty nails got me thinking about pirate ships 🚢 🏴‍☠️

[@watercolourartincapetown2919]

*art hauls 📦

[@hugbloom2664]

@@NatashaNewtonArt I loved especially one of your videos where you showed a beach all rocky with shrub balls, such a fascinating landscape very different from where I am. Really stuck in my mind. To me it's the stuff of inspiration, creates a spark of lust for life and creating.

[@debbieandrews462]

Gosh that's heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing this with us. I always feel so sad when old buildings are demolished...all that beauty, history and the atmosphere of the place...gone forever.

[@spookycatzstudio2115]

What a lovely farewell to a beautiful red bricked Dame. I hope she had a happy life and a family that loved her very much!! Coral's bench, I hope gets relocated near by, as it looks well loved and traveled.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Coral's bench really touched me...and as for that beautiful house, I just feel so sad.

[@spookycatzstudio2115]

Well, in your sharing this with us, who didn't know of the existence of Red and Coral, they can live on in our hearts and we share in the sadness with you. I hope Red might show up in one of your paintings...

[@jenniferabbott6757]

So heartbroken! 💔 It was a beautiful & stately house!

[@jenniferabbott6757]

@@NatashaNewtonArt I had the same reaction Natàsha!

[@ms.rocketscience4924]

It is heartbreaking to lose such a beautiful and historic home. Thank you for documenting this for all of us .

[@rainett]

Thank you for this beautiful film. I do think it was very much about art. 😌 You have taken lovely shots that inspire with their color, light, composition and subject. I very much respect and feel akin about looking at every day life’s beauty. Though I am hardly alone, I sometimes feel lonely when I see something that I find beautiful but have no one to share that feeling with. I feel less so watching your travel videos. This one here went straight to my heart. Thank you Natasha!! 😌🏞❤

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thank you for being so lovely. x

[@mollyrobbins1515]

Thank you for this.

[@maureenkyle2530]

What a lovely home and yes, such a shame. Thank you for honouring her in this way, Natasha. 😢❤

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thanks Maureen. x

[@olliewhitehead]

A bittersweet pleasure to share this walk with you. I hope to see your version of this house appear some day...

[@franswey2]

What an absolutely wonderful and beautiful home. 😢 It is heartbreaking there wasn’t a way to save her from demolition. It’s sad they didn’t take it down in a less destructive way so the bits and pieces could be saved for another Red house further away from the sea. I knew nothing of this home so thank you for sharing so we can morn her loss with you. From my mountain top in middle Tennessee, where the mountain tops kiss 💋the sky 🌄 I’m sending you and your mother 🤗hugs. Have a good week and enjoy this nice weather.

[@joannnulmer9060]

How absolutely beautiful. I love that you are sharing these other interests! What a sad loss, but how bittersweet that you captured its last breaths…

[@knowthyselfandyoullknowthe8216]

lovely video Natasha, a sad story indeed but nature always wins and that house and the unstable cliffs are such a metaphore for what is going on in the world right...everything is uncertain and crumbling down but at the same time a new way of caring for this planet is rising. Hope they could save that bench (so beautiful) and the garden plants and palm trees I feel so sorry for them, afterall they are still alive in all that death. Thank you Natasha for keeping memories alive.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I thought the same thing about the plants in the garden too, the poor things. :(

[@suesmith110]

What a sad story. You did a wonderful job of capturing the melancholy of the house awaiting it's fate.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thank you, Sue.

[@helenmason8990]

Thank you so much for sharing this bittersweet moment💛💛💛💛

[@travelerks]

Sadly, this has also been the fate of a number houses on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, U.S. They slowly slip into the ocean during major storms. I spent much of my childhood there. Many of the houses were very old, but none as magnificent as your red brick house. Climate change is destroying our world as we have known it. Thank you for this beautiful video.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I saw this earlier! It was terrible. I did a Google search for houses lost to the sea and one on the coast of North Carolina was one of the first that came up. So very sad.

[@travelerks]

It’s truly sad to watch it on the news in real time.

[@myyoga8spa]

Beautiful, thank you for sharing, and yes it is sad 💔

[@JulieCrane-zs1yp]

Absolutely heartbreaking 💔 to see this. We rally every year with the caravan club, on the cliff top at Thorpeness. It was so beautiful to see the red house, from a distance. This year, will be a 1st, after demolition 😢😢. Thank you 🙏 for creating this video ♥️❤️

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

It's so sad, isn't it? I'm glad that I was able to get there in time to capture its last days. Such a beautiful house.

[@KatyMutch]

This broke my heart...thank you for sharing.

[@rachelkashani]

I am land locked in the US but we can learn so much from our island countries. It makes me sad because coastlines are so relaxing and restorative to people. It is such a shame people do not take climate change seriously.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Yes, exactly! Climate change is so obviously happening. Look at the extreme weather we're all experiencing.

[@babaracuseo6141]

This is so sad. What a remarkable house it is, and such a shame they had to tear it down 😢

[@rebeccaschmidt7431]

Thanks for sharing this moving video.

[@c.f.callier]

This is a beautiful video. You did a wonderful job not only showing the house but also the power of the sea as you walked along the beach.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thank you, I was trying to show that so it's nice to know it came across in that way. :)

[@hArtyTruffle]

That’s great you got to document it before it disappeared. Must have been wonderful to live in such a property, with the constant white noise where ocean meets earth beneath a wide open sky 🫶🏻

[@jessicastrideart]

It always makes me very sad to see a beautiful old house demolished.😔 The people who built it would never have guessed this would be its plight, it’s very sad. I’m glad you filmed it for posterity.x

[@sues7227]

I found this film really interesting. Thanks for sharing. You should add a version of the house to your paintings so it lives on.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I'd thought about doing that too! It's a nice idea. :)

[@JDRUSSELL]

I love this video ❤ I’ve been binge-watching all of your watercolor swatching videos, followed by some of the haul videos, and this is one of my favorites. I loved seeing the variety of colored pebbles on the beach.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thank you so much! This type of video is never as popular on my channel, but I do love making them and it's nice to know that people enjoy them!

[@vonkrum]

Beautiful scenery, what a tragedy.

[@nancyloomis3046]

It is so sad when beautiful, old and gracious homes are gone (or soon will be) due to abandonment or neglect or in this case climate change. Thanks for taking us on a last visit to this old beauty. Not that you would divulge the family ownership, even if you knew, but I wonder too what the owner’s went through as the date came closer and closer that they knew they had to leave their beloved home. It must have been gut-wrenching.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

In this case, the owners have another home where they live most of the time, I believe, and they've been renting this one out as a very beautiful holiday home. They've owned it for 25 years though, and are said to be heartbroken.

[@loriblackwood5869]

It was so sad to read about the fate of this lovely house in the news. Thank you for sharing your visit with us.

[@deborahmeyers551]

This is sooooo sad Natasha 💜 thank you for sharing this touching story 💜

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

It really does break my heart. x

[@sherelynwhite4130]

Like you my heart breaks every time I see an old house, building, old tree or fence...anything of the past being demolished. Especially old trees. I think they should be allowed to live till their natural dying day. Thank you for sharing this with us even though it was a bit sad.😢

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I agree with you, Sherelyn. x

[@efkharisto]

I too have a penchant for old buildings and this made me so sad. What a beautiful home and such a waste that it was demolished. Can you imagine the glorious views its inhabitants enjoyed over a century? I suppose it's a miracle it lasted as long as it did. How quickly are the coastlines eroding- quite shocking really.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I thought of all the sunsets and sunrises it has seen over 100 years; all of the seasons, all of the different people who have lived in the house or visited it...so very sad.

[@efkharisto]

I looked it up and read the articles covered by UK papers. I feel so badly for the couple. I hope they found somewhere else to live, considering they didn't even have funds for securing defences at the cliffs.

[@fuzzydragons]

so many historic old houses getting lost to coastal soil erosion. building there meant great views of the water but no one really stopped and thought about what might happen to the land in the future

[@user-bk8qn9rh5k]

What a stirringly beautiful video of a magnificent home. ❤️. Thank you for sharing. It is heartbreaking to think of the lives lived within these walls, in a home that is now no more. 💔

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thank you. It IS heartbreaking. Such a beautiful home with 100 years of history.

[@mellyju]

so very sad. What a waste. Thank you Natasha for showing it to us.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thank you for watching.

[@jeaninewatts8320]

Thank you for sharing and highlighting the issue of the eroding coastlines. The colours and textures of the coastline are so beautiful and inspiring. And the tribute to the house was very touching😥, thanks again xxx

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thanks Jeanine. The layers of the cliffs are very interesting, aren't they? xxx

[@BB.halo_heir]

Coastlines have always eroded, and always will. Building on the beach is always risky. This has nothing to do with "climate change".

[@debsllewelyn230]

Well done for documenting the house in the nick of time with this beautiful tribute xxxx

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thanks Debs. I'm glad I got there when I did. xxx

[@marvelenia6702]

Wonderful footage! Our world is a living entitiy, it gives and it takes. For us humans, who are only here for a split second of eternity, it seems as if it is cruel...Nothing in life is for sure, only change is. Elsewhere, land is created, sometimes by volcanos. They too destroy and create. Lots of love and light to everybody!

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Love this comment. :)

[@DemiLulu]

Beautiful video.

[@SaraEFR74]

So very sad - I can only hope that the demolishers have had the sense to try and save as much of the building parts as they can as for use somewhere else.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

I hope so too, Sara!

[@friedakiezebrink277]

Why do they not save the old materials for new houses so beautiful

[@michemman]

I noticed that they took the window out, Natasha, so a lot of feature pieces will likely be sold off. In a way, they will have new life all around the UK. I think you could truly honor it, by making a series of paintings about this place, as a bit of inspiration, particularly the panorama shot on your phone, just shift the old lady a little of centre...perhaps to the left. Do you own any brick red colours for a painting of a red brick home by the sea? I love the well built old style homes too, and I feel the same way for most trees.... Lovely short documentary. Tastefully recorded. I hope you can pass it on to the families who once lived there, or maybe a local historical group, museum or library. In kindred spirit, Eliza Australia xx 7th of November 2022 10:33pm

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

Thank you, Eliza.

[@Chopanflores]

I think of all the historical places that have already disappeared or that will in the next years due to climate change… it’s a shame :(

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

It really is, Francisco.

[@tomandlauren86]

The foolish man built his house upon the sand. 🎶

[@THEMAYQUEEN1]

Couldn’t they salvage the materials like windows bricks etc. how sad

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

They may have salvaged what they could, I honestly don't know.

[@THEMAYQUEEN1]

@@NatashaNewtonArt ah ok. Such a sad loss. Poor house.

[@sherelynwhite4130]

Long before climate change destroyed our coastlines man did his part. I lived once on a beautiful Bay with a marsh and a Waterway through the marsh that we would float down on our raft as children. The bay was gorgeous and Spanish style homes dotted the edge of the cliffs that overlooked the water. White stucco homes with red tile roofs. It was a sleepy beautiful neighborhood. Before I was even a teenager they came and completely raised all the homes and slapped a bunch of cement down in the bay for parking lots and bathrooms destroying the marsh and the beauty of the neighborhood. Putting up ugly apartment complexes in place of the beautiful stand alone single family homes with character. So it's not just climate change that ruins our beautiful coastlines, it's men with no sense of wonder, love of beauty and understanding of the importance of nature in our lives.

[@NatashaNewtonArt]

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot..." The people who do this (or rather decide upon these things) have no soul.