Capel Manor House | |
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Type | House |
Location | Horsmonden, Kent |
Coordinates | 51°08′02″N 0°26′51″E / 51.1339°N 0.4474°E |
Built | 1969-70 |
Architect | Michael Manser |
Architectural style(s) | Modern |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Capel Manor House |
Designated | 18 September 2013 |
Reference no. | 1413746 |
Capel Manor House is a small modern steel-framed private house in Horsmonden, in Kent in southern England. It was designed by Michael Manser for John Howard, a former Member of Parliament.[1] It was built between 1969 and 1970.[1] The house was constructed on the site of, and within the remains of, Capel House, an earlier mansion built by Thomas Henry Wyatt in Italian Gothic style in the mid-nineteenth century and demolished in the 1960s.[2] The architectural writer John Newman describes the Manser house as "a severe Miesian pavilion".[3]: 307 The colonnades of Wyatt's winter garden now enclose a swimming pool.[3]: 307 The house is an important example of modern architecture in Britain, and in 2013 was designated a Grade II* listed building.[2]