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Castle House may refer to: *Castle House, Bridgwater, an 1851 house in Somerset, England *Castle House, Dedham, housing the Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum in Essex, England *Castle House, Laugharne, a Georgian Mansion in Carmarthenshire, Wales *Castle House, Usk, a listed building in Monmouthshire, Wales *Castle House building, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England *Castle House, a former Sheffield Co-operative Society store in South Yorkshire, England *Castle House, now the site of Strata SE1, London, England *Castle House, now the site of Old College, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales *Castle House, or Bailieborough Castle, County Cavan, Ireland * Castle House, Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. *Castle House School Haberdashers' Castle House is an independent Preparatory school (UK), preparatory day school for boys and girls, first established in 1944, at Chetwynd End, Newport, Shropshire. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle House, Bridgwater
Castle House is a house in Bridgwater, Somerset, England. Castle House is associated with two important Sedgemoor families, the Boards and the Ackermans; John Board (1802-1861) who extended his family's brick company into cement in 1844, and his grandson William Ackerman who joined the company in 1871 and is credited with the first ‘true’ Portland cement.’ Built in 1851 to resemble a Tudor gatehouse, the construction uses panels of prefabricated concrete, with significant further usage of concrete throughout the building. Building The house was built in 1851 for William Ackerman. Much of the building is made of brick but it was one of the first buildings to make extensive use of Portland cement for pre-cast concrete. The house is two storeys high and designed to look like an ornate Tudor gatehouse. Bays to the sides of the building form stairwells. The building includes many ornamental, and some structural uses of concrete demonstrating "an innovative interpretation of tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle House, Dedham
Castle House in Dedham, Essex, England, was the home of Sir Alfred Munnings from 1919 till his death in 1959. Architecturally the building contains a mixture of Tudor and Georgian elements. Shortly after his death his widow established The Violet Munnings Trust Fund in 1962 to establish and run an Art Museum in Castle House, in accordance with Munnings' wish that his pictures and estate be left to the nation. In 1965 Castle House Trust was formed whereby the house itself, surrounding land, all of Munnings' paintings still in the possession of Lady Munnings, and further amounts of money and investments were made over to the Trust to form the basis of a museum of his works. Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum The Museum now housed at Castle House is currently open to the public 2pm-5pm Wednesday to Sunday (+ Bank Holiday Mondays) from 1 April until 31 October. The original bequest to the trust formed the basis of the largest collection of Sir Alfred's works to be found worldwide. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle House, Laugharne
Castle House in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, is a Grade II*–listed Georgian mansion. Described by Dylan Thomas as “the best of houses in the best of places”, it is one of many buildings of note in the medieval township. The house was built around 1730, although remodelled inside and out in the Regency period. It features a three-storey, five-bay facade, with the central three bays projecting slightly. The central doorway is surmounted by a pediment; above it are tripartite windows, with the uppermost one in the Venetian style. A broad cornice on the facade conceals the slate roof. Several wings, lower than the main body of the house, project to the rear, one of which dates to the original 18th-century construction. The interiors are mainly of the Regency period and later but include the only example in Carmarthenshire of a Chinese Chippendale staircase. There were formerly a number of outbuildings to the rear of the house, as can be seen in the first-edition Ordnan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle House, Usk
Castle House in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, originally formed the gatehouse to Usk Castle. Much altered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it is now a private home and a Grade I listed building. History Castle House has its origins as the gatehouse to Usk Castle. Coflein gives the dates of construction as 1368–99. For many years, it was the residence of the castle's steward. While the castle declined in the later medieval period and was slighted during the English Civil War, Castle House underwent considerable expansion and alteration in the 18th and 19th centuries. By the early 20th century, it was described as a "gentrified town house". In 1925 Castle House, and its grounds including the castle ruins, were purchased for £525 by Rudge Humphreys, whose family still own the estate. The Monmouthshire antiquarian Joseph Bradney, in his History of Monmouthshire, recorded that Humphreys was agent to a Mrs Perry-Herrick, "who owns considerable estates in th(e) county". Hump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludlow Castle
Ludlow Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the Ludlow, town of the same name in the English county of Shropshire, standing on a promontory overlooking the River Teme. The castle was probably founded by Walter de Lacy (died 1085), Walter de Lacy after the Norman Conquest and was one of the first stone castles to be built in England. During the The Anarchy, civil war of the 12th century the castle changed hands several times between the de Lacys and rival claimants, and was further fortified with a keep, Great Tower and a large outer bailey. In the mid-13th century, Ludlow was passed on to Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville, Geoffrey de Geneville, who rebuilt part of the inner bailey, and the castle played a part in the Second Barons' War. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Roger Mortimer acquired the castle in 1301, further extending the internal complex of buildings. Richard, Duke of York, inherited the castle in 1425, and it became an important symbol of Yorki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Co-operative Society
The Sheffield Co-operative Society was a local consumers' co-operative trading in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The Society was founded as the Brightside and Carbrook Co-operative and opened its first shop in 1868, Meg Munn,Our Movement faces a stark choice: either progress or stagnate", ''co-operative News'', 1 June 2006 in the Carbrook suburb of Sheffield. Castle House The Co-op opened shops around the city, and set up its first branch in Sheffield City Centre in 1929, on the corner of Exchange Street and Waingate, on part of the former site of Sheffield Castle. In 1962, this moved to a new site named "Castle House", in tribute to the site of the old store. The Castle House department store was designed by G. S Hay of the Co-operative Wholesale Society and occupied a large site, with entrances on King Street, Angel Street and Castle Street. The store, which also housed the headquarters of the Brightside and Carbrook, featured a massive granite facade with a zigz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strata SE1
Strata SE1 is a , 43-storey, multi-award-winning, skyscraper at Elephant & Castle in the London Borough of Southwark with more than 1,000 residents living in its 408 flats. At the time of its construction, the building, designed by BFLS (formerly Hamiltons), was the Tallest buildings in London, tallest residential building in London and the first building in the world with its three wind turbines integral to its structure (as opposed to having them tacked on, in a retrofit). In March 2014, an Ipsos MORI poll for New London Architecture of 500 members of the public aged 16–64 declared Strata SE1 Londoners' fifth favourite tall building, behind The Gherkin, The Shard, 122 Leadenhall Street (The Cheesegrater) and One Canada Square (Canary Wharf). The building At the time of construction there was an attempt by journalists to nickname the building "The Razor", and "The Electric Razor". Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, called it "The Lipstick", while describing it as a buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old College, Aberystwyth
Old College, Aberystwyth, is a building that forms part of the University of Aberystwyth in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. The first building on the site, of which nothing remains, was a villa constructed c. 1795 by John Nash (architect), John Nash for Sir Uvedale Price. This building was converted into the Castle Hotel in the 1860s by John Pollard Seddon. The hotel was a failure and the building was then sold to Aberystwyth University, University College Wales, Aberystwyth, later a constituent member of the University of Wales. Pollard was retained to redevelop the building as an education institute, and to undertake complete reconstruction after a disastrous fire in 1885. During his tenure, Seddon engaged C. F. A. Voysey, Charles Voysey to design a mosaic triptych to decorate the building's exterior. Old College continued to accommodate teaching departments of the university throughout the 20th century, but was progressively turned over to administrative uses as the universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bailieborough Castle
Bailieborough Castle was located in Bailieborough, County Cavan, Ireland. It was built in an enclosed demesne by 1629. Also known as Castle House, Lisgar House, or simply 'The Castle', the country house was located just to the south-west of Castle Lough in what is now known as Bailieborough Demesne, on the north-western edge of the town. It was largely destroyed by fire in the early 20th century and is now totally demolished. There is a walking trail around part of the former castle's property. History William Bailie, a Scottish "undertaker" or planter, was granted the lands of Tonergie (Tandragee) in East Breffnie by James I in 1610 on condition he enclosed a demesne, built a fortified house and settled on the estate a number of Scottish or English families. This he did by 1629. During the rising of 1641, the house was attacked and occupied for a month by a troop of Irish soldiers under Colonel Hugh O'Reilly. William Bailie died c.1648 and the estate passed to his son, also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle House, Dunoon
Castle House is situated in the Scottish town of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute. It sits on top of a promontory called Castle Hill, between West Bay and East Bay, overlooking Dunoon Pier and the Firth of Clyde. It was built in 1822, and designed by David Hamilton. It is a Category B listed structure.Castle House, Castle Gardens – The house was built for James Ewing of Strathleven. Ewing was a merchant and slave owner and was described by bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle House School
Haberdashers' Castle House is an independent Preparatory school (UK), preparatory day school for boys and girls, first established in 1944, at Chetwynd End, Newport, Shropshire.ISI Inspection report on Castle House School dated November 2014, accessed 13 September 2015 Haberdashers' Castle House is an associate of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. It is also a member of the Haberdashers' West Midlands Academies Trust founded by nearby original Haberdasher school, Haberdashers' Adams. Architectural At Haberdashers' Castle House, buildings were previously a group of houses consolidated into one mansion that was called "Merevale" before the school was founded, begun in the late 18th century with early 19th century and further modern exten ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery At Castle House
''Mystery at Castle House'' is a 1982 Australian film for children."Production Survey", ''Cinema Papers'', December 1982 p 555Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p109 The film was broadcast in the United Kingdom on the ITV network in 1986 Plot With their father tied up with a long-term business contract, siblings Kate and Ben move in with their aunt. As they explore their new surroundings, they meet and befriend a local boy named Spider. They also encounter Rocco and Ah Leong, who are stealing produce from the shops and households. Kate, Ben and Spider eventually decide to explore Castle House, a mysterious huge manor that has been abandoned for 15 years. However, they soon discover that the house has inhabitants: An old lady named Miss Markham, to whose family the house belongs; her new ground caretaker Mr. Wilberforce; and his two dimwitted aides Morris and Stakovich. While Miss Markham proves very friendly, Wilberforce and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
