Stoneywell has just been given to the National Trust. It is the kind of house, like Charleston or Kettle’s Yard, which might, in another life, have belonged to any of us; and since it is in Leicestershire, might have been lived in by the Whipples; or by the Blakes in They Knew Mr Knight (although they would not have wanted to live in an Arts and Crafts house, that would have been too bohemian for them).