Kelmscott Manor
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Located at the edge of the village of Kelmscott, Gloucestershire, Kelmscott Manor, built in 1570 is a grade 1 Listed Tudor farmhouse adjacent to the River Thames. The Manor is built of local limestone and in about 1665 an additional wing was added to the northeast corner.
Nowadays you can take a tour of the manor house and its gardens which also includes a gift shop and restaurant.
The Gift Shop sells a wide range of items - soft furnishings, china, glass, stationery, etc., all inspired by the designs of William Morris and his associates. The shop contains a book section, also.
The licensed restaurant is open for morning coffee, light lunches and afternoon tea. Catering for group visits by arrangement only.
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Kelmscott Manor
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- William Morris chose Kelmscott Manor as his summer home, signing a joint lease with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of 1871. Morris loved the house as a work of true craftsmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered, and in harmony with the village and the surrounding countryside. He considered it so natural in its setting as to be almost organic, it looked to him as if it had "grown up out of the soil"; and with "quaint garrets amongst great timbers of the roof where of old times the tillers and herdsmen slept".
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