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(New) Hawarden Castle (Welsh: Castell Penarlâg (Newydd)) is a house in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. It was the estate of the former British prime minister William Gladstone, having previously belonged to the family of his wife, Catherine Glynne. [1] Built in the mid-18th century, it was later enlarged and externally remodelled in the Gothic taste.
Nevertheless, the house had some handsome rooms including a large hall, a parlour "capable of containing more guests than I ever wish to see in it at a time," a library 30 feet (9.1 m) by 18 feet (5.5 m) well stocked with classical, historical and natural history books and a smoking-room "most antiquely furnished with ancient carvings, and the ...
He did little to alter the house, but did add numerous outbuildings. The mansion was listed on 17 February 1983 "as a C19 country house notable for its castellated style typical of the C19 Picturesque movement, the result of remodelling an earlier house on the site". [2] Gyrn Castle remains in the ownership of the Bates family.
Cornist Hall. Cornist Hall is a large house 1 mile (1.6 km) west-southwest of the town of Flint, Flintshire, Wales.It was the birthplace in 1746 of Thomas Totty, an admiral who served under Lord Nelson. [1]
The house is of two storeys with a central two-storey entrance porch. Edward Hubbard in his Clwyd volume in the Buildings of Wales series, notes the decoration of the porch, which has a small upper chamber supported by a pair of columns below it. [3] Golden Grove was originally built to a traditional h-plan, with a central block and two cross ...
Prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old Kansas City man with adulterating food at the Hereford House restaurant in Leawood. It’s not the first such case in the area.
The house was designed by the architect John Buckler and built between 1824 and 1827 for Robert Grosvenor, who was at the time the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, and later the 1st Marquess of Westminster. The building of the castle was supervised by Benjamin Gummow , the Earl's architect and surveyor. [ 2 ]
Police are investigating in the wake of a swatting incident at actress Jennifer Aniston's home in Los Angeles, Calif.Last Friday, the police received a concerning phone call that led them to make ...