Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1858, William Morris, a 24-year-old architectural draughtsman with some family money, bought an acre of land ...

Red House is a striking brick building that was the former home to William Morris and his wife. (Image: National Trust Images/Andrew Butler) With its striking appearance, many windows and ...

Red House, owned by the National Trust since 2003, was commissioned by Morris and designed by Philip Webb, a fellow founder of the 19th Century arts and crafts movement.

William Morris was born on March 24, 1834, in Essex, northeast of London, into a wealthy family. From the age of 4, he devoured Walter Scott's medieval epics, disguised himself as a knight and ...

You can visit a 19th century house which was the former home of William Morris and is still studied by architects today.