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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1220695
Date First Listed : 18 February 1970
A mid 19th century former warehouse and three cottages, the cottages dating from the early 19th century. They are in sandstone, the cottages with a stone-slate roof and the warehouse with a tiled roof. The cottages have three storeys, and each has a single bay. The former warehouse has been converted into domestic use, it is gabled, in three storeys with an attic, and has a central glazed loading slot.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1220695
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Day 191/365: Bucket List
On my bucket list, from the time I was young, was the opportunity to see The Oak Ridge Boys live in concert. Meeting them was an added bonus, and I have always really loved William Lee Golden, so I could be a happy girl just meeting him. A while back, the ORB's retired and I thought there goes my chance. I was so disappointed. Being able to see them last night at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair was a dream come true, but even more amazing was the fact that I was able to meet William Lee Golden in person, get a hug, and go in the official ORB tour bus. I was born in April of 1982, and in February of '82 the song "Bobbie Sue" was released and became an instant hit. My mom already had a name picked out, she was going to name me "Kristy Nicole," I could have the spelling or variation wrong, she will likely correct me if I do. Anyway, my grandma put a bug in my parents' ear and said they should name me Bobbie Sue. To add more dimension to the story, my dad's name is Bob, my mom's name is Sue...yes, no joke. So thanks to the Oak Ridge Boys & Grandma, I have a name that is also a legacy and bonds me to my parents even closer. I count it as a gift, just like last night was.
Lister Park (also known as Manningham Park) is a picturesque public park in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, between Manningham, Heaton and Frizinghall. It has won various national awards. (from Wikipedia)
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COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD, STOWMARKET
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1292591
Date first listed: 28-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment: 29-Nov-1993
Statutory Address 1: COUNCIL OFFICES AND OAK COTTAGE, 1, 3 AND 5, MILTON ROAD, STOWMARKET
National Grid Reference: TM 05053 58536
Details
STOWMARKET
TM0558 MILTON ROAD 614-1/4/93 (North West side) 28/07/50 Nos.1, 3 AND 5 Council Offices and Oak Cottage (Formerly Listed as: MILTON ROAD (North East side) Nos.1, 3 AND 5 The Old Vicarage (3) and Oak Cottage (5))
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Vicarage, now council offices since 1974 and a house. C17 origins, considerably altered and enlarged since. Timber-framed, rendered, pebbledashed and colourwashed. Plain tile roofs. The 2-storey north-western block is the C17 part, with an early C18 gabled cross wing added to the south-east gable end. This also 2-storey. The 2-storey range running north-east of this is also early C18, and constitutes Oak Cottage. c1860-70 the south-east extensions were added, now forming the council chamber. These terminate in a hipped bay against the gable with 4-light Geometric tracery windows and one-light returns. In the late C18 general additions of oriel windows. Oak Cottage, extending north-east with replaced 2-light casements, 2 projecting oriels to the first floor and a cluster of 3 2/2 ground-floor sashes. Gabled roof with central ridge stack. The C17 north-west wing illuminated through various types of sashes. Gabled roof and central ridge stack. Both these wings of 4 irregular bays. The cross wing between them with oriels to the south-west gable and the south-east flank, next to an external stack. Both these oriels appear in mid C18 drawings. The C19 extension has a dormer and a C20 entrance block of one storey.
INTERIOR. Council chamber entered through a 2-panel early C18 door. Dentil cornice. Timber-framed rear parts with chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops. Doorways and fireplaces generally C20. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Young, a tutor of John Milton, was vicar here 1628-55. From his letters it is obvious that Milton visited the house. The Rev. A.G. Hollingsworth, author of "The History of Stowmarket", 1844, also lived here. (Double H: Stowmarket - A Book of Records: Stowmarket: 1983-: 43, 124).
Listing NGR: TM0505358536
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The 16th century former vicarage, now the town council offices and register office, has associations with John Milton, and ‘Milton’s Tree’ in its grounds is believed to be an offshoot of one of the many trees he planted there.
The poet John Milton made regular visits to the town as his tutor, Dr Thomas Young, became vicar of Stowmarket in 1628.
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Stowmarket – A Brief History
Mentioned in the Doomsday Book in 1086 the town had a population of only 200. The medieval heart of Stowmarket lies around the parish church of St. Peter and St. Mary and in the area leading down to the riverbank. Today the town has 131 buildings listed by the Department of National Heritage as buildings of special architectural or historic interest and one, the parish church, is classified as being of “exceptional interest”. The large Town Centre Conservation Area has a predominance of Georgian architecture within it.
Edward III granted the Town a market charter in July 1347 and the market continues to serve local people every Thursday and Saturday in the Market Place. This popular traditional market is supplemented with monthly Farmers Markets and occasional continental and specialist markets.
NT Chastleton House & Garden, Oxon 10/5/2015 SP248291
Chastleton House (/ˈtʃæsəltən.haʊs/) is a Jacobean country house situated at Chastleton near Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire, England (grid reference SP2429). It has been owned by the National Trust since 1991 and is a Grade I listed building.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 External and internal features
3 Chastleton Garden
4 Film Location
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612, for Walter Jones, who had made his fortune from the law,[2] although his family were originally Welsh wool merchants. The estate was bought in 1604 from Robert Catesby, although his residence was demolished to make way for the new house and no traces of the original building on this spot remain. The house is built of Cotswold stone, round a small courtyard, called the Dairy Court.
External and internal features[edit]
Chastleton House is different from other houses of its type in several respects. It has never had a park with a long, landscaped approach such as many other houses of its era. Rather it was built within an existing settlement, Chastleton village, which provided many of the services for the house which would otherwise have been attached, such as a laundry, a fishpond and a bakehouse. Secondly, until its acquisition by the Trust in 1991, it was owned by the same family for nearly 400 years. Its treatment by the Trust was similarly unusual, with a policy of conservation rather than restoration, enabling visitors to see the house largely as it was when acquired.[3] As a result of the Trust's approach, a large number of the rooms in the house are open to the public.
Of particular note is the Long Gallery, with its barrel vaulted ceiling. No other gallery of such a length 72 feet (22 m) and date survive. Like much of the house, the Long Gallery ceiling has been subject to damage. The neglect of the roof for almost two centuries led to the failing of part of the plaster ceiling in the early 1800s, but it was not repaired until 1904-05, when two local men were engaged to make good the losses.[3]
Also of interest is the impressive Great Chamber. Designed for the entertainment of the most important guests and for the playing of music, the design scheme has its roots in Renaissance Italy and is the most impressive in the house. The setting out of the panelling shows some inspiration from the classical, as do the painted roundels around the frieze, depicting the twelve prophets of the Old Testament and the twelve Sybils or Prophetesses of Antiquity. Also in the Great Chamber are a set of Jacobite Fiat glasses engraved with the Jacobite emblems of roses, oakleaves, and a compass rose, which betray the families eighteenth-century sympathies. These probably belonged to Henry Jones IV, who was the president of the Gloucestershire Cycle Club, one of the oldest established Jacobite clubs.[4]
Other items of interest in the house include the Juxon Bible, which is said to have been used by the chaplain, Bishop Juxon, at the execution of Charles I. Juxon’s family lived locally in Long Compton until his family died out in the eighteenth century, when it is thought to have been given to John Jones II because the Jones’ were another family with Jacobite sympathies.[4]
In 1919 a number of significant tapestries were discovered at the house, and were interpreted as evidence for the establishment of a tapestry-weaving venture at the manor house of William Sheldon (d 1570) at Barcheston, near Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire.[5] One of these tapestries is currently on display in the Middle Chamber, and another is in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Chastleton Garden[edit]
The Grade II listed garden at Chastleton has undergone a number of revisions since the completion of the house in 1612. There is no archaeological evidence of a garden on this site before this date: indeed, the North Garden is split by an old field boundary.
There is no map or written evidence to suggest how the garden was laid out by Walter Jones in 1612, but the walls that enclose the garden are 17th century and archaeological evidence that suggests that the garden has been laid out the same way for the last 400 years. It is laid out according to the recommendation proposed by Gervase Markham in The English Husbandman (1613) [6] – a fore court to the front of the house, with the base (or bass) court on one side, which included the stables and other farm buildings. The other two sides of the house should be composed of gardens, divided into an orchard, a kitchen garden and a best (or pleasure) garden, planted with more ornamental plants[7]
At the time, the Forecourt at Chastleton described the entrance area below the House court (the area directly in front of the house). The House court was raised slightly above the forecourt by a small retaining wall, probably with a balustrade on top. There were likely to be few plants in the front of the house in the early 17th century, with the House Court possibly being paved or having two grass plats on each side of the central path like the Forecourt.[7]
To the east of this was the Pleasaunce or Pleasure Garden. This was the Best Garden, which was levelled, but with a viewing terrace along one side which also gave entrance to the church at the opposite end. The design of this garden is not known, but it was almost certainly surrounded by high walls with fruit trees trained against it. The Best Garden was laid out in the circular pattern we see today by Dorothy Whitmore Jones in 1833,[7] although it is suggested that there were already box plants there. Beds were added within the circular hedge in the 1890s or 1900s and then grassed over again by 1972. During the periods of time when money came into the family the planting in this garden was always renewed.
To the north are terraces, levelled from the sloping ground. There is evidence of a medieval cultivation terrace and the remnants of the old boundary wall of the garden. There was a Bowling Green on the Middle terrace and the third terrace may also have been the site of the original kitchen garden.[7]
Today, the middle terraces are the site of two croquet lawns, originally laid out by Walter Whitmore-Jones in the 1860s. His version of the rules of croquet published in The Field in 1865 became definitive, and Chastleton is considered the birthplace of croquet as a competitive sport[8][9]
The Kitchen Garden as it is now was enclosed in 1847 and was formed of the existent garden and from part of the adjoining field. It was laid out as four plots on one side of a broad path and two on the other side, and the kitchen garden today has been recently rejuvenated to form this pattern as well.
Film Location
Chastleton House was used as one of the locations for the 2015 BBC Two television series Wolf Hall and represented 'Wolf Hall' home of the Seymours.[10]
The Booking Office at The Renaissance Hotel in St. Pancras is one of those places that I only realised was on my list of 'places I have to eat in, in London' once I'd actually been. I think I realised a few minutes in, staring up at its beautifully ornate high ceilings. Living inside the truly magnificent St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel (which only recently finished nothing less than a decade of renovations) the building was originally conceived by Sir George Gilbert Scott and opened as the Midland Grand in 1873. It really is palatial in both its interior and its exterior. It was originally built as a hotel for well heeled train travellers, and more than a century later, is doing pretty much the same thing. The attachment to St. Pancras Railway Station does give the place a kind of frenetic energy, and a few of the hotel rooms have amazing views over the inside of the station.
Anyhow, as you may have guessed, the Booking Office Bar (which is where we spent our ridiculous evening) is built on the site of the station's former booking office. It seems to have lost nothing of the original room's history and character - just look at it. On a foodie note, good news comes in the form of the bar/restaurant that now lives inside it - as a Marriott operation you're allowed to have some expectations when t comes to the food and these guys certainly deliver (though not, perhaps, at the level of insanity you may find at JW Steakhouse on Park Lane or Gillray's in County Hall. Food is, on the main part, rather British with a few modern European touches - think an all day menu with Fish Finger Sandwiches, Toad in the Hole, Shepardâs Pie, Black Angus Beef Burgers, etc. Keeping with the British theme, they also serve the traditional afternoon tea in the adjacent (and for some reason very fragrant) Hansom Lounge.
We were there partly for The Renaissance's 'punch ritual'. What I forgot to mention is that the other big theme here is the Victorian era (heck, they're halfway there with the decor). One way this plays out is in an array of (often gin based) punches and mixed drinks, many of which they dug up from old Victorian recipe books. Monday night's punch recipe/ritual was based on one served at the infamous Garrick club - I watched our photogenic, Italian barman pour an entire bottle of Sipsmith's London Dry into that thing. A mug (metal mug) of said punch is complimentary, but you've got to get up and try some (which apparently encourages diners to be a little more sociable, kinda the point of serving a punchâ¦like a party!). 2 bottles of wine and some punch later, we were given the goahead to explore the inside of the hotel further - check out the Grand Staircase. It is a very grand staircase. This place is worth a visit. A healthy/unhealthy dose of living history and delicious food/drink, all at the same time...
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1072389
Date First Listed : 31 March 1978
This working men's club was built 1841–45. It is constructed of ashlar with a pitched roof of slate.
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by Latrobe & Weston, 1904, for an estate agent, Walter Hughes. A detail of the decoration over the window. Now offices.
It is listed grade II
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1196377
Date First Listed : 13 January 1971
The market hall was designed by Charles Reed, the clock tower was added in about 1870, and the building has since been adapted for other purposes. It is in red brick with sandstone dressings and a hipped slate roof. The main part is rectangular, in a single storey, and with a front of nine arcaded bays. There is a two-storey annex added to the west side, and in the centre of the east front is a clock tower. The tower is in Italianate style, and has three stages, with an archway in the bottom stage, a three-light window in the middle stage, and clock faces on the upper stage. On the top is an octagonal bellcote with an ogival cap. It was originally built in 1847/8.
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I have spent a few days copying a selection of old Newsletters from my couple of bound copies.
Some are tagged with members of ACE who are mentioned from time to time,such as in debates on the Irresponsibles or exciting Trip Reports or Marriages and Engagements between SUSS Members..
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Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1207289
Date First Listed : 18 February 1991
A pair of brick houses, dating from around 1825, with sandstone dressings and slate roofs in Georgian style. They are in two storeys with cellars, and each house has a two-bay front. The doorways are round-headed with Tuscan quarter-columns and semicircular fanlights. Between the houses is a lobby doorway. The windows are sashes with wedge lintels.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207289
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Preston,_Lancashire
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This is the third time this fall the fishers boat has taken on water....nobody seems to care that it is leakin oil into lake Huron!
BIEL, SWITZERLAND - APRIL 10 : Cornelia Lister in action at the 2017 Ladies Open Biel WTA International tennis tournament