Stoneywell - An Arts and Crafts Delight In a Rocky Outcrop in Leicestershire by Blue Firth, September 2025

Writer Blue Firth, Founder of Dohm Shop

I’m trawling Rightmove, as usual. I have to say that Nottinghamshire isn’t currently serving up the most inspiring housing stock in my price range. Cities built in the Industrial Revolution and battered by WW2 bombs or unsightly ring roads don’t tend to have an abundance of bucolic charm. I divert my search to Herefordshire, or Suffolk, or the Highlands and Islands. I over-dramatically lament. But as a Midlander born and bred I am allowed to being impishly mean, because hidden in my local landscape under an ancient rocky outcrop in the mystical land of Charnwood is a most delightful house. I can’t live there, but I can visit. Enter Stoneywell.

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