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We can go to Morris’s Kelmscott Manor in the Cotswolds today, and be turned to his vision by his wallpapers in ways we can’t when we read his books.

His famously hand-wrought houses, Kelmscott Manor and the Red House, depended on the broader fabric of Victorian prosperity to support their own secession from it.

Kelmscott Manor in west Oxfordshire, which inspired arts and crafts designer Morris, receives £4.7m to help double its opening days and visitor numbers.

Meanwhile, two of Kelmscott Manor's rooms, which are currently closed, will be opened as exhibition and archive spaces, and historic buildings in the grounds are to be restored as a cafe, learning centre and activity space.

In the weeks before his departure he had taken a house, Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, in a joint tenancy with Rossetti.