Harrow Museum
Also known as Headstone Manor & Museum, this is a rare, fully moated medieval manor complex folded into suburbia. A free, family-friendly site where you can step from a 14th-century hall to a 16th-century Great Barn in minutes, then decode Harrow’s local stories in compact galleries. Plan 45–75 minutes, longer if you circuit the moat and barns.
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What's not to miss inside?
Headstone Manor House
Medieval survival in modern LondonTimbers and patchwork walls show six centuries of extensions, repairs and changing owners.
📍 Across the footbridge over the moat
The Great Barn
Cathedral of farmingA soaring 16th-century aisled barn where structure is the spectacle.
📍 West of the manor within the complex
Small Barn Galleries
Harrow’s people, work and playFrom local industry to community festivals, the displays link the manor to modern Harrow life.
📍 Near the bridge and café
Moat Walk
Landscape archaeology you can lapA complete water-filled moat—rare in Greater London—still frames the site’s status.
📍 Encircling the house
Inspire your Friends
- Headstone Manor keeps a complete, water-filled medieval moat—an exceptionally rare survival in Greater London.
- The complex layers four historic buildings—the Manor House, Great Barn, Small Barn and Granary—around one green.
- After major restoration, the museum reopened with free admission, making it one of London’s best-value medieval visits.
