Capel House

Capel House is a house that dates from the 16th century, with later cladding from the 18th century and extensions added in the 1920s. The building is timber-framed and clad with red and blue checked brick, featuring plain tiled roofs. It has a lobby entry plan and consists of two storeys and an attic, characterized by a dentilled brick eaves cornice, hipped roofs, gablets, and moulded 19th-century stacks located at the centre left, rear left, and end right. The house has three hipped dormers and on the first floor, there are two three-light and one two-light leaded wooden casements. The ground floor features two mid-20th-century oriel windows and a late 19th-century bay window to the right, which is partly in a catslide outshot. A plank and stud door is situated to the centre left within a hipped porch, which, along with the bay window, is depicted in a photograph from 1914.

At the rear, there are four lower wings, which include a basement, well, pump, and cistern. The left extension from the 1920s is timber-framed and exposed, with red brick nogging, close studded and featuring a jetty on brackets that project from the front elevation and left return. This extension has hipped and gabled roofs with a moulded stack and includes mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, with oriels on the first floor. The interior of the original 16th-century block showcases a full frame and inglenook fireplaces.

Capel House was home to the author Joseph Conrad from 1910 to 1919, during which he wrote "The Rescue," "Victory," and "Arrow of Gold." The house was extended by Lord and Lady Oliver, who had rented it to Conrad in the 1920s. It was formerly a detached portion of Warehorne and was a manor within that parish, situated within a moated site.