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Its owner is in no doubt as to its merits: " 'Finest house on the whole river,' cried Toad boisterously. 'Or anywhere else, for that matter. ' " [12] The hall has a "very old banqueting-hall, stables stand to the right of the house, as viewed from the river" [11] and a "large boat-house" is located on the riverbank. [11]
Toad Hall is partly timber-framed with brick nogging and partly in brick, and has a corrugated iron roof. It is in two storeys with a loft, and has a front of four bays. The windows are casements. Inside are three upper crucks. The Old Medicine house dates from about 1600 and was moved here in 1970 from Wrinehill in Staffordshire. It is also ...
Toad of Toad Hall is a play written by A. A. Milne – the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows – with incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson. It was originally produced by William Armstrong at the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool , on 21 December 1929.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley is a children's fantasy novel by English author Alan Garner.Garner began work on the novel, his literary debut, in 1957, after he moved into the late medieval house, Toad Hall, in Blackden, Cheshire.
A. A. Milne's 1929 play Toad of Toad Hall was based on the book. [ citation needed ] William Horwood wrote several children's novels, Tales of the Willows , continuing the original story. [ 4 ] The 2013 graphic adventure video game The Wolf Among Us , based on the Fables comic book series, features Mr. Toad as "a foul-mouthed taxi-driver ...
Old Coal Mine Buildings South-east of Stublick Farmhouse. More images. ... Toad Hall Holy Island, Hexham, Northumberland: House: 1737: 2 October 1951
The Old Rep is a Grade II listed theatre, located on Station Street in Birmingham, England. When it was constructed in 1913, it became the United Kingdom's first ever purpose-built repertory theatre .
Hardwick House is a Tudor house on the banks of the River Thames on a slight rise at Whitchurch-on-Thames in the English county of Oxfordshire.It is reputed to have been the inspiration for E. H. Shepard's illustrations of Toad Hall in the book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, although this is also claimed by Mapledurham House, Fowey Hall Hotel, [1] Foxwarren Park [2] and Fawley Court.