Greeba Castle
Greeba Castle is a country house at the foot of Greeba Mountain between milestones 5 and 6 of the Snaefell Mountain Course on the Isle of Man . The name is derived from the North Germanic Gnipa (German: mountain peak).
history
The two crenellated houses from Victorian times below the 422 meter high mountain, Greeba Castle and the neighboring Greeba Towers , were built in 1849 in neo-Gothic style. Both houses are slightly raised and were designed by the self-taught architect John Robinson from Douglas . Robinson had planned many buildings in Douglas, such as B. the Bank of Mona (now the Tynwald Building), the Falcon Cliff , the Douglas Head Hotel and the Derby Castle , all crenellated and in neo-Gothic style.
Greeba Castle was originally built for William Nowell , but was then bought by Edward Windus , the son of a partner in Chatto & Windus . Victorian novelist Hall Caine moved to the Isle of Man in 1894 and rented Greeba Castle for 6 months before living in Peel for a short period . In 1896 Caine bought the dilapidated house and lived there until his death in 1931. During this time he had it partially renovated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Kneen: Place Names of the Isle of Man . Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh The Scolar Press, 1970. p. 396.
- ↑ Manx Sun , June 1890.
- ↑ Vivian Allen: Hall Caine: A Victorian Romancer . Sheffield University Press, Sheffield 1997. p. 225.
- ^ David T. Webber (revised by Frank Covin and FJ Radcliffe): An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Isle of Man . The Manx Experience The Alden Press, Oxford 1997. ISBN 1-873120-25-7 . P. 68.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 35 " N , 4 ° 35 ′ 20" W.