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Loo tables were very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries as candlestands, tea tables, or small dining tables, although they were originally made for the popular card game loo or lanterloo. Their typically round or oval tops have a tilting mechanism , which enables them to be stored out of the way (e.g. in room corners) when not in use.
Geeumbi (the Aboriginal name for Table Top Mountain, which the house overlooks) was built between the years 1914–1918 by Ernest Pottinger for Dr Thomas Arthur Price and his wife. The house is a substantial concrete structure of unusual design set in extensive mature gardens on the southern Toowoomba Range commanding wide-ranging easterly views.
On the 30 November 2014 edition of BBC One's Antiques Roadshow two yew dining chairs from The Holme, dated to about 1700 and carved with the Whitaker family crest and coat of arms, were featured. Originally part of a set of 18, they were described as "rare" and "the best of their type", and were valued at between £2,000 and £4,000.
Nolan, who lived at Heide intermittently for almost a decade, painted his celebrated Ned Kelly series in the farmhouse's dining room in 1946–47. [2] In 1963, the Reeds commissioned Melbourne architect David McGlashan to design a new residence on the property, one that had a sense of mystery and romance, and was "a gallery to be lived in ...
Originally named Twatley Manor, an abbreviation of "To the wet lea", the first recorded building is a farmhouse called Twatley Farm which was built in the 18th century and first appears on the Malmesbury Tithe Map in 1840. The farm was bought in 1857 by Mr T G Smith, who from 1871 became the lord of the neighbouring Easton Grey manor.
Ardress House was originally a farmhouse built around 1700 by the Clarke family, after their original home was destroyed during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. [1] Dating for the construction of the house is supported by dendrochronological analysis undertaken by Queen's University Belfast.