Turner’s House Trust is a registered charity 1111653 and is registered with Companies House. The Trust became the owners of Sandycombe Lodge in December 2010, following the death of the last owner, Professor Harold Livermore earlier that year. The trustees raised £2.4m for the restoration of Turner’s House and conservation was completed in the summer of 2017.
Turner’s House Trust is an independent registered charity which relies on visitors admission, grants and donations to remain open at all. If you would like to donate to help us into the future, you can do it here:
Lucy Littlewood – Chair
Michael Deriaz – Vice Chair
Romy Murray – Secretary
Sondra Tarshis – Treasurer
Laurie Dupont
Gillian Forrester
Aastha Goyal
Megan Louise Leckie
Frances Moyle
Guy Peppiatt
Nicola Reynolds (Moorby)
Peter Mumford Stockdale
Discover the intimacy of J.M.W Turner by stepping in to the house he designed himself.
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Sandycombe Lodge was built by 1813 to the designs of England’s great landscape painter, J.M.W. Turner; working here as his own architect to create a quiet retreat for himself.
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Turner's House Collection is a selection of prints ranging, from the early Liber Studiorum to the Picturesque Views of England and Wales, and, finally, the vignettes for the Poetical Works of Walter Scott. The drawing of Sandycombe Lodge by William Havell, is the only original image of the house made during the time of Turner’s residence.
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