Lea Cottage, Ulverscroft, Leicestershire
Ernest William Gimson was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputation is securely established as one of the most influential designers of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gimson designed many buildings in the UK, with the two most notable being his first new house commission, Inglewood in Leicester, and the National Trust property in Leicestershire called Stoneywell. Gimson designed a number of Arts and Crafts cottages in the village of Ulverscroft in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, including Stoneywell and the neighbouring thatched Lea Cottage, built in 1898.
Lea Cottage, Ulverscroft, Leicestershire
Ernest William Gimson was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputation is securely established as one of the most influential designers of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gimson designed many buildings in the UK, with the two most notable being his first new house commission, Inglewood in Leicester, and the National Trust property in Leicestershire called Stoneywell. Gimson designed a number of Arts and Crafts cottages in the village of Ulverscroft in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, including Stoneywell and the neighbouring thatched Lea Cottage, built in 1898.