Nick Cave sells Grade I listed Brighton seafront mansion to city high-fliers for £2.9m

Decked out with flamingo pink carpets and walls and a shamrock green master bedroom, it is clearly the home of a rock star.

But Nick Cave has now sold his palatial seaside mansion to city high-fliers Niranjan Pathmanathan and Uma Baska for £2.9million.

The distinctive eight-bedroom home sits on the coveted Lewes Crescent in Brighton, overlooking the sea.

The Grade I-listed Regency house has four bathrooms, a gym, study, library and drawing room and has access to communal private gardens.

Cave, 65, and his designer wife, Susie Bick, 56, moved into the address more than 20 years ago.

Decked out with flamingo pink carpets and walls and a shamrock green master bedroom, it is clearly the home of a rock star

They raised their twin sons Arthur and Earl in the house and Cave was a frequent visitor to nearby cafes and coffee shops 

The Australian singer, 65, and his actress wife, 56, live with their son Earl, 22, in the whimsical home and Ms Bick often documents their Gothic lifestyles on her popular Instagram account

The couple bought it in 2002 for a mere £165,000 and have seen a bumper profit from the sale.

They raised their twin sons Arthur and Earl in the house and Cave was a frequent visitor to nearby cafes and coffee shops.

Susie Bick opened her clothes design business, The Vampire’s Wife, at premises just a stone’s throw away.

However in 2014 the couple suffered a tragedy when their son Arthur, 15, died after falling from cliffs not far from the house. In a second tragedy, Cave’s eldest son Jethro Lazenby, 31, died last May, just two days after he was released from prison in Australia.

At the time of his death, a judge had ordered Jethro to attend a drug treatment programme and to stay away from his mother for two years, The Metro reports. 

Jethro had previously enjoyed a successful career as a model and had acted using the stage name Jethro Cave. 

Following Arthur’s death, the couple have struggled to continue life at the house and eventually moved to London.

Nick Cave has now sold his palatial seaside mansion to a couple of city high-fliers for a whopping £2.9million after buying it for a mere £165,000

The Grade I-listed Regency house has four bathrooms, a gym, study, library and drawing room and has access to communal private gardens

Cave, 65, and his designer wife, Susie Bick, 56, moved into the address more than 20 years ago

Cave working at the house on the Sussex Square estate of 250 houses, which was completed in 1828 and designed by leading architect Charles Augustin Busby

Cave and Ms Bick moved to Brighton in the 2000s and lived there for more than a decade, but were consumed by grief following the death of their son Arthur, whose twin, Earl is pictured at the house

In addition to Earl, pictured, Cave has another son, Luke, from his first marriage to Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro

Ms Bick often shares a glimpse inside their Brighton mansion on her Instagram account, such as this snap of herself in their bright green bedroom

Nick Cave and his designer wife Susie Bick are understood to still love the seaside city and are looking for a new house to live in

In November 2021, Cave wrote on his The Red Hand Files blog: ‘Brighton had just become too sad.

‘We did, however, return once we realised that, regardless of where we lived, we just took our sadness with us.

‘These days, though, we spend much of our time in London, in a tiny, secret, pink house, where we are mostly happy.’

The couple are understood to still love the seaside city and are looking for a new house to live in.