Capel Manor House is a house in Horsmonden, Kent, England. A simple glass-and-steel house in the style of Mies van der Rohe, it is seen as one of the most important examples of 1970s architecture in Britain.
Designed by the British architect Michael Manser and completed in 1971, the house was commissioned by John Howard, private personal secretary to Prime Minister Edward Heath, who wanted a modern labour-saving house to replace the existing 26-bedroom mansion. Manser's new house was revered as a modernist icon and featured in dozens of design journals around the world. It was featured in Vogue and House & Garden in 1971. A scale model of the house, kept at the Royal Institute of British Architects, has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The house is the subject of a chapter in David Heathcote's book The 70s House (Academy Press, 2006). An entire episode of the BBC TV programme Living with Modernism was devoted to it, and in 2009 it was used as the dream setting in the film The Good Night, starring Penelope Cruz and Gwynneth Paltrow.