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The unique bedroom window at the National Trust house Stoneywell. This house built in 1899 was designed by Arts & Crafts pioneer Earnest Gimson as a summer house away from the Leicester industry.

Another visit to The National Trust's only house in Leicestershire! Stoneywell was built by Earnest Gimson for his brother, a Leicester industrialist, as a summer holiday home in the late 1890s. It was built in the Arts & Crafts tradition and style with much of the original furniture hand-made by Barnsley. In keeping with the back-to-nature style it was built over an outcrop of volcanic rock but of course this means the house is damp.