Restoration Village 2006

[Nemesis]

Slightly different formulation... I have all the research somewhere but it's been a loooong day... in fact a long week... but the Castle House website is now defunct.

Bloody English Heritage,


Grrrr

Southport Cyclone RIP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM7v4VXawl4&eurl=

Peter Crompton, great work.

 

[BMcD]

I found on Google something about the Strummerville trust but didn't open it I just thought it'd be about The Clash and Joe Strummer. It just gets better Castle House

 

[Nemesis]

Strummerville pulled out...





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IoE number: 373965
Location: CASTLE HOUSE, QUEEN STREET (south side)
BRIDGWATER, SEDGEMOOR, SOMERSET
Photographer: N/A
Date Photographed: N/A
Date listed: 16 December 1974
Date of last amendment: 16 December 1974
Grade II*




BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE QUEEN STREET
736-1/10/150 (South side)

ST 2937 SE BRIDGWATER QUEEN STREET (South side) 736/10/10001 Castle House 16.12.1974 GV II* House. 1851. For William Ackerman. Brick with pre-cast concrete facing panels, solid concrete, pantile roof with rendered stacks. Double-depth plan including rear range. Early Tudor Revival style. 2 storeys; 2-window range. The front elevation is very ornate, and composed in the manner of an early Tudor gatehouse. The ground-floor walls are constructed in brick with pre-cast concrete facing panels, the walls of the first floor are of solid concrete blocks simulating rusticated jointing. The upper parts of the parapet and mock battlements are rendered brick. Above and below the first floor are friezes formed of perforated pre-cast concrete blocks supported by pre-cast concrete corbels. Projecting concrete drip cills protect the base of the parapets, both friezes and the plinth. The windows are mullioned and transomed 2-light casements with head stops to label moulds. Canted bays to the sides form stair turrets, to front of which, on both floors and attic, are niches with depressed-arched heads, formerly housing painted concrete statues; those to ground floor have head stops to label moulds. To centre of the front is a small single-storey canted bay with a single window and panelled parapet above. The doorway under a hood on consoles is to left and entrance to a stair turret is in the corner to far left. INTERIOR: there is extensive concrete work within the house including staircases, handrails and window frames, all prefabricated at John Board's works. The structure seems to be held together with tie-bars and one section of roof trusses is made out of reinforced brickwork, made to look like a cruck frame or parabolic arch. An early and significant use of concrete, for both decorative and structural purposes. History: probably one of the earliest surviving examples of the use of prefabricated concrete and constructional post-tensioning. The house contains a wide variety of castings, mostly as ornament but with enough items carrying loads to be classified as of minor structural importance; it shows an innovative interpretation of traditional masonry features in concrete and a relatively early method of reinforcement in the structure. 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. -

 

[BMcD]

Thank you for the description it realy does sound like a fantastic building and well worth saving. And I'm glad you like Trellick Towers and I suppose it was all started at Casle House

 

[Nemesis]

Yes!!

I like good buildings full stop.

i love Castle House - it's mad but importnat.

Hope a rescuer has now come forward...

 

[BMcD]

So do I

 

[Nemesis]

It's looking OK = SAVE has done a holding operation.

Fingers crossed.

 

[Penners]

"Do you expect me to like your tower, Goldfinger?"

"No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!"

 

[BMcD]

Goldfinger of Bond fame is said to be named after Goldfinger the architect.
The story goes when Ian Flemming was living in Hampstead Erno Goldfinger was living very near by (overlooking at the back or something) and wanted to build a Brutalist extension to his house which Flemming objected too. The pair fell out over this and Flemming got the name of his charceter, or some thing along those lines

 

[BMcD]

Found a story of Godfinger/Flemming

http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2005/story/0,,1497998,00.html