KELMSCOTT MANOR

Rossetti and Morris agreed to share the rent of £60 a year on Kelmscott Manor, An Oxfordshire farmhouse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
For Morris, Kelmscott had the beauty and magic of a dream. Fields and water and Cotswold stone seemed to realise the ideal of man's dignified life in harmony with nature. Much later he was to write how 'through it's south window you could not only catch a glimpse of the Thames clover meadows and the pretty little elm-crowned hill over in Berkshire, but if you sit in the proper place, you can see not only the barn … with it's beautiful sharp gable, the grey stone sheds, and the dove-cot, but also the flank of the earlier house and it's little gables and grey scaled roofs.'

LOCATION
A361 or A417 and B4449

OPENING HOURS
April - September, Wed. 11am - 1pm, third Sat. in April, May, June and September, first and third Saturday in July and August 2pm - 5pm

ADMISSION CHARGE
Unknown

TELEPHONE
01367 252486

ADDRESS
Kelmscott Manor
Nr Lechlade
Gloucester
GL7 3HJ