Kelmscott Manor
William Morris’s rural summer home by the Thames, with his wallpapers and textiles.
Kelmscott Manor is a house of around 1600 in Oxfordshire that William Morris rented as a summer home in 1871. He loved the house for its simplicity and the countryside.
Morris furnished it with his own wallpapers and textiles and wrote about it in the novel News from Nowhere. The house is now owned by the Society of Antiquaries and is open to visitors.
Materials: Cotswold stone, wood, wallpapers and textiles
Manufacture: Rented by William Morris from 1871 and furnished with his own patterns.
The grey stone house with gables and pitched roofs.
The wallpapers and textiles that Morris designed.
The old furniture.