Castle House (Somerset)
Castle House is a country house in Bridgwater in the English county of Somerset . It was built in 1851 for William Ackerman . Most of the building was made of brick , but it is one of the first buildings in the world to use heavily portland cement to make prefabricated concrete . English Heritage has it as a historical building II *. Grade listed.
The building contains many ornaments and some concrete structures that represent "an innovative interpretation of traditional concrete masonry".
Castle House was a finalist for the second season of the BBC television series Restoration in 2004 and was endorsed by friends of Joe Strummer .
It is listed on English Heritage's Heritage-at-Risk register, and English Heritage also organized funds for the home's restoration.
In 2012, NNB Generation Company (subsidiary of Électricité de France ) donated £ 300,000 to the SAVE Trust for the restoration of Castle House as part of the money it paid to the local community for the development of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant . It is planned to use the building as a meeting point for clubs and organizations involved in the Bridgwater Carnival as soon as it is renovated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Derrick Warren: Curios Somerset . Sutton Publishing, Stroud 2005. ISBN 978-0-7509-4057-3 . P. 24.
- ^ Castle House . In: Images of England . English Heritage. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
- ^ Castle House, Queen Street (South side), Bridgwater . In: Somerset Historic Environment Record . Somerset County Council. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
- ^ Louise Jury: Bridgewater calling: Strummer's friends want concrete folly turned into memorial . The Independent. July 7, 2004. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
- ^ South West England . In: Heritage at Risk . English Heritage. P. 6. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
- ^ The SAVE Trust - Castle House . Save Britain's Heritage. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
- ↑ Deed of Development Consent Obligations pursuant to section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 relating to Hinkley Point C, Somerset . UK Government. Pp. 48-49. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
- ↑ Architectural Fund 2012 . Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 45 ″ N , 3 ° 0 ′ 8 ″ W.