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Curtois Close, LINCOLN, LN4 1LJ

Ashfield House Farm, including Rectory Farm and Archers Farmstead was purchased by the Co-op in 1910. They built houses on Lincoln Road in the 30s and bungalows on Station Road in the 1950s. Branch 24 the first of two shops in the High Street opened in early 1920 and closed around March 1972 with the opening of this new Supermarket, building of which had started by September 1971. In March 1987 the Directors reported that 'a small development of unit shops for let has been approved adjacent to the Supermarket in Branston to create a small shopping centre.' This was completed by September 1987. The shop underwent a £530,000 four month refit nearly doubling its floor space reopening in June 2009. The mosaic by Branston History Group was sponsored by Lincolnshire Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and designed by Alan Potter.

Pawn finial - 4 arms; by the B1188, in parish of Branston and Mere (North Kesteven District), junction of High Street with Station Road, Branston, on verge, by stone wall. Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: LI_TF0267

Newsagents and Post Office on Branston High Street

Manufactured by Messrs H T Jenkins and Son Ltd Marble merchants Torquay and erected by Cook and Canham Builders of Branston. It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Unveiled and dedicated on 20th March 1921 by Major E Johnson, Rev. J. O. Johnston, D.D., Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, local clergy and dignitaries. In 1999 the whole site was re-designed and the memorial restored. It was rededicated on 26th September 1999.

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'

Set in Branston Community Garden, with High Street behind