Nick and Susie Cave’s colorful mansion in Brighton for sale for £3.25m

The couple bought a maisonette in the house in 2002 for £165,000.

They later bought an adjacent property and turned it into one larger house, making them favorite local celebrities in Brighton.

The eight-bedroom townhouse is part of a classic Regency crescent with stucco facade and is spread over 6,397 square feet over five floors.

It has four bathrooms, four reception rooms, a library, gym and sauna.

The lower floor, containing two of the bedrooms, is a basement, with its own entrance, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom.

Upstairs there is an open plan kitchen and dining room, spanning the length of the house.

Painted entirely in lilac with black kitchen cabinets, a long farmhouse table and homely fireplace stand in the center of the room.

One grand piano is in a sitting room on the floor above where tall, floor-to-ceiling windows offer views over the sea. The walls are pale pink, complemented by a darker pink carpet and red velvet trim.

Fashion designer Susie, a fan of historic real estate, bought an abandoned 1860 Sunday school and turned it into the headquarters for her brand, The Vampire’s Wife.

The label is best known for the Falconetti, called the dress of the decade by Vogue and worn by everyone from Kate Middleton, who chose an emerald green number for her first official portrait, to Margot Robbie and Holly Willoughby in ruby ​​red and Cave’s compatriot and collaborator. Kylie Minogue in pink.

Although the exterior is a subdued cream color, the interior of the house is just as iridescent as its fashion range, from the pink-walled gym to the lilac kitchen and the bold green master bedroom suite with a bathroom full of plants and a roll-top bath.

The house was the work of the eminent regency architect Charles Augustin Busby, who designed a number of buildings around Brighton and retains the original shutters, wooden floors and decorative architraves.

Nick Cave, originally from Australia, rose to fame as the frontman of the band The Birthday Party and later Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Cave lived in London, Berlin and São Paulo, married Susie Bick in 1999 and moved to Brighton shortly after.

“[Brighton is] about as close to the edge of England as you can get before falling into the sea,” Cave said in an earlier… interview.

“Australians always cling to the edge a little bit. I just like a little view. I like the view. I literally look out over the sea, so that’s nice.”

After the tragic death of Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur in 2015, the family moved to Los Angeles. “Brighton had just gotten too sad,” Cave wrote on his open-ended question forum The Red Hand Files.

“However, we came back when we realized that no matter where we lived, we just took our grief with us.”

Despite returning to Brighton, Cave says the couple have started spending more time in London, in a “little, secret, pink house, where we’re usually happy”.

Cave and Bick put their house on the market last week, cementing their slow departure from Brighton. Cave lost his eldest son, Jethro Lazenbyearlier this year.

“It seems to me that the common agent that binds us all is loss,” he wrote to a fan this month.

“We reach out to each other and find each other in the common darkness. In doing so, we triumph over our collective and personal loss.

“Through kindness, shockingly and wonderfully, we tend to meaning. We discover, in that smallest gesture of goodwill laid at the feet of our mutual and monumental loss, ‘the point’.”

The property is listed for £3.25 million with Hamptons.