14-767: 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,
28-572: A 1982 Australian film for children Sir George Sutton, 1st Baronet, of Castle House , Banstead, Surrey, a Sutton baronet Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Castle House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castle_House&oldid=1051432054 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
42-526: 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 , Newport, Shropshire, England See also [ edit ] The Mystery at Castle House ,
56-540: A restoration process did not go through until September 2005. The first phase of restoration work finally began on 19 March 2007. Kate Humble co-hosted the 2003 live grand final. A second series, featuring 21 buildings in 7 regional heats, appeared on BBC Two in the summer of 2004. The winner was the Old Grammar School and Saracen's Head in Kings Norton , Birmingham . Both buildings closed to
70-466: Is a set of BBC television series where viewers decide on which listed building that was in immediate need of remedial works was to win a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund . It first aired in 2003. The host of all three series is Griff Rhys Jones , whilst investigating each building in the heats are the show's resident "ruin detectives", Marianne Suhr and Ptolemy Dean . Thirty buildings featured in ten regional heats in 2003, with money raised from
84-593: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 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
98-426: 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 traditional masonry features in concrete". It was designated as a Grade II* listed building on 16 December 1974. Inside, the building includes more concrete features, such as
112-454: 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. 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
126-575: The local community for the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to the SAVE Trust for the restoration of Castle House. It was planned to transfer the building to the Bridgwater carnival once restoration was complete. In 2018 the scaffolding was finally removed as restoration of the façade was completed. Planning permission to convert the building into three flats had been obtained. Restoration (TV series) Restoration
140-722: The progress made by some of the 72 featured buildings throughout the three TV series. The Perfect Village was a companion series of architectural travelogues presented by Ptolemy Dean , and shown on BBC Four in 2006. The show chose twelve villages from all around the United Kingdom as illustrations of village life. In the final show Heighington in County Durham was chosen as the UK's "perfect village". The Channel 4 programme, Demolition , broadcast in December 2005,
154-657: The public in July 2006 for archeological investigation, restoration work began in February 2007. Both buildings were officially reopened on 13 June 2008. The 2004 live Grand Final was co-hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky . On 4 September 2005, Rhys Jones presented a programme, updating viewers as to the progress made by the featured buildings, or otherwise. A third series of nine programmes, presented by Griff Rhys Jones , began on BBC Two in August 2006. Entitled Restoration Village ,
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#1732779887883168-415: The series focused on buildings in smaller settlements, using the same format and voting as before, featuring 21 buildings in 7 regional heats. Updates about previously featured buildings were also included. The winner of Restoration Village was Chedham's Yard, an early 19th-century blacksmith's yard. On 22 April 2009, Rhys Jones presented "Restoration Revisited", a 60-minute programme updating viewers as to
182-521: The staircase, the handrails and the window frames. Castle House was a finalist in the 2nd BBC television series Restoration in 2004 and was supported by friends of Joe Strummer . It is included in the Heritage at Risk Register produced by English Heritage , and English Heritage provided funding for the restoration project. In 2012 a grant of £300,000 was made by NNB Generation Company (part of Électricité de France ) as part of monies paid to
196-531: The telephone vote being added to the prize fund. Viewers chose which of a selection of the United Kingdom's most important, but neglected, buildings should be awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant of £ 3m. The winning building was the Victoria Baths in Manchester ; however, bureaucratic and technical hurdles meant that the money raised could not be spent immediately, and final planning-approval to begin
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