Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (1872–1935), was an English architect, designer, illustrator and historian.

"[1] His obituary in Nature noted that his books for children and young people had "strongly stimulated interest in the cultural background of the more formal study of history".

the house incorporated many modernist features such as a drying yard for clothes, a scullery, a larder, fuel store, outside lavatory, living room, parlour, three bedrooms and an inside bathroom and hot press.

Discussing the leading English furniture designs of the time, Herman Muthesius[8] wrote in his book The English House (1904): '... that inspired artist Henry Wilson and the excellent designer C. H. B. Quennell far outshine the rest of the group and produce work of high artistic sensibility.'

His brother, Walter, a builder and property developer, was father of Joan Quennell, a Conservative M.P.