Capel Manor House

{{short description|Grade II* listed house in England}}

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| name = Capel Manor House

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| caption = Capel Manor House, October 2011

| type = House

| locmapin = Kent

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| coordinates = {{coord|51.1339|0.4474|display=inline,title}}

| location = Horsmonden, Kent

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| built = 1969-70

| architect = Michael Manser

| architecture = Modern

| governing_body = Privately owned

| designation1 = Grade II* listed building

| designation1_offname = Capel Manor House

| designation1_date = 18 September 2013

| designation1_number = 1413746

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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.{{r|neil}} It was built between 1969 and 1970.{{r|neil}} 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.{{r|he}} The architectural writer John Newman describes the Manser house as "a severe Miesian pavilion".{{r|New|page=307}} The colonnades of Wyatt's winter garden now enclose a swimming pool.{{r|New|page=307}} The house is an important example of modern architecture in Britain, and in 2013 was designated a Grade II* listed building.{{r|he}}