Stonefield House, 14 Sleaford Road, Branston
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Stonefield House, 14 Sleaford Road, Branston
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 28 Nov 2019
The early 19th century house and gates are Grade II Listed. The house was known locally as The Monkey House because of squat monkeys on the garden piers and is variously referred to as a Victorian folly. It was owned and built by Thomas Lovelee (1808-1877), a Corn Miller, Stonemason, and Lime Burner by trade. In 1904 the Forman family rented the house and attached buildings described as 'stable, blacksmiths shop, saw pit, woodworking shop, grainery, paddock, wells with plenty of water etc' that became the base for the Forman Bros Thrashing and Transport Contractors Branston Limited. The 1911 census records a Walter Richardson, aged 20 years, lodger at Stonefield House working as a thrashing machine feeder. The Forman family purchased the house in 1917-18. Pevsner in 1964 notes 'No-one should miss Mr Loveley’s gate piers at Branston'
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Image Location
Latitude
53.192209
Longitude
-0.468042