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 ...

Muthesius called Philip Webb’s 1860 Red House in Bexleyheath, ‘the very first example in the history of the modern house’. It was preoccupied both with vernacular traditions of housebuilding and also ...

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.

The Morris family only lived at the Red House from 1860 to 1865. Ill health and possibly financial troubles drove them out. The 20th century has also left its architectural mark on Bexleyheath ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

WILLIAM Morris’s Bexleyheath home, Red House, is hosting an Arts and Crafts Movement fair featuring work from up to 20 designer craftsmen and women. The fair will feature contemporary pieces of ...