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Stoneywell Cottage, Leicestershire Stables Alterations Heritage Impact Stoneywell Cottage, Leicestershire Stables Alterations Heritage Impact Statement February and December 2013 Version v.iv. 23.12.13 CONTENTS 1.0 GENERAL 1 2.0 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1 3.0 DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSALS AND THEIR IMPACT 3 Rodney Melville & Partners Ltd 10 Euston Place Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV32 4LJ Tel: 01926 881311 Fax: 01926 451766 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.rmpuk.com Job No. 6571 1.0 GENERAL 1.1 This Statement has been prepared to accompany applications for listed building consent and variation to conditions to planning permission for alterations to the Stables at Stoneywell Cottage, Lea Lane, Ulverscroft, Markfield, Leicestershire on behalf of the National Trust. 1.2 Following the grants of Planning Permission (ref. P/13/0607/2) and Listed Building Consent (ref. P/13/0608/2) on 12th September 2013 some modest changes are now proposed as a result of further consideration of the detailed scheme and in particular the desire to take a less intrusive approach in respect of the works to the Stables. 1.3 The way the Stables are to be used has been amended to suit the revised approach. It remains the proposal that Stoneywell Cottage is opened to the public as a small museum, with limited access guided tours only. Visitors would enter a new car park located away from the property and would then approach the property via a minibus in small groups to suit timed ticket entry. Visitors would be welcomed at the Stables where there would be a small exhibition, WCs and a small tea room offering drinks, soup, sandwiches, cakes and suchlike. 1.4 Pre-application consultation has taken place with both the local authority (14th November 2013). Comments from this meeting have informed the proposals now submitted. 2.0 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 2.1 Stoneywell owes its origins to the Gimson family. Josiah Gimson (1818-1883) was a self-made man who set up the Vulcan Works making heavy machinery in Leicester in the 1850s. He became a man of considerable wealth and influence in the city and his large family followed his interests. 2.2 In 1884, Josiah’s fourth son, Ernest William (1864-1919), then articled to a local architect, was inspired by a visit from William Morris to Leicester. This influenced Ernest’s career to become one of the most celebrated architect-craftsmen of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He trained under J.D. Sedding in London, meeting many of the Movements rising stars, such as W.R. Lethaby, and with the Barnsley brothers, moved to the Cotswolds in 1892 to practice designing and making furniture, plasterwork, metalwork and needlework as well as continuing to work as an architect. 2.3 Ernest designed a series of summer cottages for his family in the Charnwood Forest, north-west of Leicester, a rugged and remote area, using local materials. The first of these was a pair of cottages for the landowner James Bilson. Stoneywell followed in 1898 for his brother Sydney Ansell Gimson (1860-1938), then Lea Cottage for his brother Josiah Mentor Gimson (1851-1925) in 1899. Rockyfield was built in 1908 for his sister Margaret Gimson (1871-1967). The itinerant architect-mason Detmar Blow (1867-1939) acted as Gimson’s clerk-of-works for Bilson’s cottages, Stoneywell and Lea Cottage, whilst Norman Jewson fulfilled this role at Rockyfield. 2.4 Stoneywell Cottage was altered to the designs of the architect Humphrey Gimson, a pupil of Lutyens, in 1935 (living room window enlarged, and gable added over front door for new bathroom) and in 1940 (following a fire in 1939, when the thatch was replaced with Swithland slates, a new attic bedroom was formed, and lead gutters installed). Alterations took place in the kitchen in 1954. More recent interventions have been the introduction of mains water in Stoneywell/Misc/Heritage Impact Statement February and December 2013 v.iv. 23.12.13 1 1967, central heating in 1969, a wood burning stove in the dining room in 1976 (replaced with a night storage heater in 1994), rewiring in 2001 and a new glazed outer front door in 2007. The Cottage is listed grade II*. 2.5 Stoneywell Cottage is celebrated as one of the most extreme examples of the Arts and Crafts approach to site-specific design. The plan is a cranked Z shape, following the contours of the site (but also referencing The Old Post Office, Tintagel, a medieval house repaired by Detmar Blow in 1896 on behalf of the SPAB, and now a property of the National Trust). Local rubble stone was used for the walls and originally thatch was used for the roof. The disused Swithland slate quarries nearby were the source of the massive lintels. 2.6 Sydney Gimson’s son Basil inherited Stoneywell in 1938 and retired to live there in 1947. His brother, the architect Humphrey Gimson, carried out alterations in the 1930s. Basil’s son Donald Gimson inherited in 1953 and was the owner who passed the property to the National Trust in 2012. 2.7 The Stables serving Stoneywell Cottage were built in 1902 to the design of Ernest Gimson. The building housed a laundry as well as stable, harness room and carriage room, although it was soon used for motor cars after Sydney Gimson bought his first car in 1908. The two lead clad apex windows are a striking feature, which do not seem to have been pursued in Gimson’s later work. 2.8 The Stables are of one storey plus a small attic. Walls are of local Charnwood igneous syenite rubblestone at the base with timber framing clad in timber boards over. The roof is covered in Swithland slates, reslated and felted in 2000 when the garage doors were replaced and repairs carried out. Windows are of painted timber. Rainwater goods are in timber. 2.9 Internally, there are few painted or plastered finishes. Upper floors are gypsum on lath (ie. ‘limeash’) and laths are visible from below in places. The modern white felt used in reroofing is also visible. Some horse furniture survives as does the laundry copper. The Stables were rewired in 2001. 2.10 The Stables are listed grade II. 2.11 Ernest Gimson’s working drawings for the Stables survive. 2.12 References : i. Annette Carruthers, Ernest Gimson and the Cotswold Group of Craftsmen , Leicester, 1978 ii. Annette Carruthers, Gimson and Barnsley: Designs and Drawings in Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums , Cheltenham, 1984 iii. Mary Comino, Gimson and the Barnsleys: Wonderful furniture of a commonplace kind , Evans, 1980 iv. Michael Drury, Wandering Architects , Shaun Tyas, 2000 v. Donald Gimson, Stoneywell Chronology , unpublished notes, March 2011 vi. Richard Holder, Gimson Day June 4 th 2005 , Victorian Society, 2005 vii. Nikolaus Pevsner and Elizabeth Williamson, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland , Penguin, 1998 viii. Lawrence Weaver, Small Country Houses of To-Day , Country Life, 1919 Stoneywell/Misc/Heritage Impact Statement February and December 2013 v.iv. 23.12.13 2 3.0 DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSALS AND THEIR IMPACT 3.1 General : It is important to note that the works form part of a scheme to open up Stoneywell Cottage (a Grade II* listed building) to the public. Therefore, any changes to the Stables contribute to this major heritage gain. Stoneywell Cottage is a seminal work of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the product of one of its principal designers. 3.2 Vehicle Access : It is important to provide a dropping off and collection point for visitors from the minibus which is off the road. Rather than driving into the main part of the yard, the minibus will drive forward and then reverse into a newly created vehicle bay in the southern corner of the yard. The modern gates will be rehung, which has no impact. However the creation of the vehicle bay involves the removal of part of the stone wall bounding the yard, and thus some loss of historic fabric, albeit of a minor nature. It is proposed that the old wall will be recorded as it is dismantled and the new wall will be constructed using the same form, reusing old materials and sourcing new local stone to match. The result will therefore be as seamless as possible, with the old work fully recorded. Note that this work already has consent under the previous proposals. 3.3 External Repairs : The exterior of the Stables will be virtually unchanged by the proposals. There will be some modest improvements and repairs, arising from the Quinquennial Inspection 2012 carried out by this Practice. This includes some work of good housekeeping such as repointing, redecoration and maintenance of the wooden rainwater disposal goods, as well as some reversal of modern changes such as the Georgian wired dormers and the modern gate leading towards the Cottage. The latter will be based on surviving fragments of the original Gimson gate. All of these are heritage gains. Level access to the Stable itself will be required and so the concrete paving here will be removed and raised level with the floor, and a short ramp added – this will have minimal impact and provides access for all visitors. Note that this work already has consent under the previous proposals. Dormer Old Gate 3.4 External Stairs : The first floor is at present accessed via a steep timber ladder-stair. This is a modern replacement, presumably to a similar design to the original. The original landing and posts survives. The stair is unsafe for general use, but as the first floor will not be occupied, it is proposed that the modern ladder-stair is retained as it is, with some minor repairs to stone and timbers.
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