Kelmscott Manor
With its gabled façade, rose-tree-lined front path and walled flower and vegetable gardens, Kelmscott Manor is the very essence of the quintessential Cotswolds country home. It may seem overly romantic to say that there is something almost magical in the air, yet many visitors to the Grade I-listed property will understand the description by William Morris – its most famous former occupant – who called Kelmscott ‘a heaven on Earth’.
Built as a farmhouse around 1570, its location gives many clues to its agricultural origins. Acres of unbroken fields offer an open vista to the front while meadowland and the remnants of an orchard form part of the back garden, which slopes imperceptibly to the early meandering of the River Thames.
The manor sits just outside of Kelmscott in West Oxfordshire, a diminutive hamlet
