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There’ll be a point on the epic journey it takes to get to Red House when it seems you’ve come to the wrong place or turned the wrong way at the Bexleyheath Toby Carvery. But somewhere among ...
But the Red House's most enduring legacy can be found lapping at its gates, in the suburban semis of Bexleyheath. The Red House pioneered the modern suburban ideal, the idea of experiencing the ...
SET the kids loose with the inks and rubber stamps at Red House in Bexleyheath from 1.30pm to 4pm on Friday, May 31. The little ones can design their own wallpaper using motifs from the founder of ...
MUSIC of the kind which entertained William Morris and his guests will fill his Bexleyheath home again this weekend. As part of the Museums at Night initiative, Morris’s Red House home in Red ...
The plot in current day Bexleyheath, a short train ride from ... menagerie of pets to amble on the lawn when he came to The Red House. There are regular tours in the morning on which groups ...
In 1858, William Morris, a 24-year-old architectural draughtsman with some family money, bought an acre of land in what is now the south-east London suburb of Bexleyheath, then still rural Kent.
With its pointed arched window frames and towering chimneys, the house was designed to appear like a relic of the Middle Ages. In reality, its vintage dates to the 1860’s. This is Red House ...
The Red House, Bexleyheath, of 1860 by Philip Webb, was never used as the creative living and working centre it was intended to be. His first independent commission for William Morris was built on ...
Starting at the George Inn in Southwark, you'll walk the 13 miles to Red House, Bexleyheath, the former home of William Morris. If the journey's too far, you can also use a special hand-drawn map ...