🏠 Indoor & outdoorGardensEducationalBooking required
What’s there
- Limited parking
No general car park on site. Two pre-bookable disabled parking spaces on site (call the property to book). Nearest public car park is Danson Park, about a mile away, which charges at weekends and bank holidays.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Red House is the Arts and Crafts home that William Morris had built for himself and his wife Jane in the 1859 to 1860 period, designed with his friend, the architect Philip Webb. It is the only house Morris commissioned, created and lived in, and it sits behind a long brick wall in a residential part of Bexleyheath in south-east London. Visits are by pre-booked guided tour, which takes families through the rooms, where the decoration and wall paintings made by Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite circle can be seen. Older children with an interest in history, design or art tend to get the most from the tour. Outside, the garden is a small green space with arts and crafts style planting, an apple orchard and a rose arch, and there is a garden snug to sit in. It suits a relaxed outing rather than a busy day of activities, and younger children may need entertaining between rooms.
Seasonal opening May to October; house and garden closed outside these dates.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Picnic blanket
- Flask of tea
- Folding stool
- Backseat organiser
- Ice packs
- Woolly hat
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