Red House

…Street’s office, to build the Red House at Bexleyheath (so called because it was built of red brick when the fashion was for stucco villas). It was during the furnishing and decorating of this house by Morris and his friends that the idea came to them of founding an association…

Webb’s first commission, the famous Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent, was designed for Morris in 1859; it is characteristically unpretentious and informal. Webb was a proponent of the picturesque exterior using contrasted materials; for example, his dark-paneled and white-painted interiors were enlivened by bare brickwork or exposed ventilator grilles. Nonetheless, his…

…to build for Morris the Red House (1859–60) at Bexleyheath near London. Little in this building is overtly Gothic—rather, it is intended to evoke the solidity and sound craftsmanship of medieval architecture, an ideal he had adopted from a greatly neglected architect, William White, and one that was to be…

Red House, in Bexleyheath, was built for the 19th-century designer and poet William Morris; purchased by the National Trust, it was opened to the public in 2003. St. Paulinus, Crayford, is the oldest local church, with parts dating from the 12th century; the church of…