Ernest Gimson
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Ernest William Gimson was an English furniture designer and architect. He was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputation is
Drawing of Stoneywell by Ernest Gimson, July 1898
Ernest Gimson Blue Plaque displayed at the Belmont Hotel, De Montfort Street / New Walk, Leicester
118 New Walk, Leicester: Gimson's childhood home
Inglewood (1892), Ratcliffe Road, Leicester
Stoneywell
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Stoneywell is a National Trust property in Ulverscroft, a dispersed settlement near Coalville in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. Stoneywell is the largest of a small group of cottages designed in th
Ernest Gimson
…in the UK, the two most notable being his first new house commission, Inglewood in Leicester, and the National Trust property in Leicestershire called Stoneywell. Both are now Grade II* Listed in recognition of their architectural importance. His architectural commissions include: The Sapperton workshop was…
Stoneywell, Leicestershire
Sidney Barnsley's oak dining table, with Ernest Gimson's ladder-back chairs
The entrance faces out away from the road, with no vehicular access.