19-552: Island House may refer to the following structures: United Kingdom [ edit ] Derwent Island House , Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumbria Island House, Belle Isle in Windermere Island House, Birmingham , West Midlands Island House, Laugharne , Grade II* listed, partly Tudor, sub-medieval town house located in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire Island House, Barbican ,
38-469: A Grade II listed building in Plymouth, Devon Island House, Plympton , a Grade II listed building in Plymouth, Devon Other places [ edit ] Island House, Hong Kong The Island House , Elk Rapids, Michigan, U.S. See also [ edit ] House Island (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
57-460: Is a Grade II listed 18th-century Italianate house situated on the seven-acre (three-hectare) Derwent Island, Derwent Water , Keswick, Cumbria , and in the ownership of the National Trust . It is leased as a private home, but is open to the public five days a year. The interior is classical in style. Derwent Island was owned by Fountains Abbey and used by monks, but with the dissolution of
76-617: The Society of Antiquaries . Soon after this he went on a sketching tour of Great Britain. On 26 July 1826 he married his cousin, Anne Andrews Nesfield. With her he had six children, two of whom died in infancy. Salvin's first major commission was Mamhead House in Devon for Robert William Newman. This was designed in the Tudor style to a symmetrical plan. It was adapted from a plan by Charles Fowler and this placed restrictions on his design. His next design
95-727: The Clewer Tower. Salvin designed Peckforton Castle in Cheshire for John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache as a recreation of a castle of the time of Edward I . In 1852 he started work on the restoration of Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. This included replacing one of the towers with a larger tower, the Prudhoe Tower, creating a porte-cochère , replacing windows and replanning the interior. Salvin also restored and repaired 20 old churches and three cathedrals, and built 34 new churches. In
114-574: The French Châteauesque style for Sir William Geary. A major part of Salvin's work was to restore, refit and create castles. In 1835 he refaced Norwich Castle , in 1844 he repaired the ruins of Newark Castle and in 1845 he repaired the ruins of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight . In the early 1840s the Queen's Gate of Caernarvon Castle collapsed, and in 1844 Salvin repaired it and rebuilt some of
133-737: The Marshalls. William Wordsworth was upset by the building, feeling it spoiled the view, and described Pocklington as "a native of Nottinghamshire, who played strange pranks by his buildings and plantations upon Vicar's Island, in Derwentwater, which his admiration, such as it was, of the country, and probably a wish to be a leader in a new fashion, had tempted him to purchase." 54°35′28″N 3°08′42″W / 54.5912°N 3.1449°W / 54.5912; -3.1449 Anthony Salvin Anthony Salvin (17 October 1799 – 17 December 1881)
152-610: The building was complete, Salvin was replaced as architect by William Burn . In 1835 Salvin spent five weeks in Germany. In 1836 Salvin entered a design in Tudor style in the competition for the new Palace of Westminster which had possibly been inspired by his visit to Germany. However this was unsuccessful, as was his entry for the competition to design the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford . He won
171-1039: The competition for the design of the Carlton Club in Pall Mall, London , but the club decided not to proceed with his plan. After losing a further competition, this time to design the Army and Navy Club , Salvin did not enter any more competitions. Most of Salvin's designs for major houses continued to be in the Tudor style. These include Keele Hall in Staffordshire for Ralph Sneyd (1793–1870) , and Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire for Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers . There were exceptions, including Penoyre House in Brecon , an Italianate villa-style house for Colonel John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins and Oxon Hoath in West Peckham , Kent in
190-499: The early 1840s he had worked on The Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge , employing James Rattee , and following this he was made an honorary member of the Cambridge Camden Society . He arranged for the removal of buildings around the south transept of Norwich Cathedral and reordered its choir. He also made alterations to Durham and Wells Cathedrals . In all he designed at least 34 new churches. Salvin's restorations were not to
209-534: The island to William Peachy in 1796, a friend of poet Robert Southey. Henry Cowper Marshall purchased the island in 1844 and employed architect Anthony Salvin to add east and west wings and a three-storey tower to the house. In 1951, Mr Marshall's grandson Denis Marshall gave the property to the National Trust. During the 20th century, the house was home to several members of the Grindlay family who leased it from
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#1732851957221228-472: The land. The house was one of the earliest villas to be built in the lake district, an entry in Pocklington's notebooks suggests that he saw a house on Belle Isle (in nearby Windermere lake) in 1776, perhaps inspiring his own ambition for a house on a lake district island. Pocklington held annual regattas on the lake at which he fired off his cannon and the small fort used for mock battles. Pocklington sold
247-477: The liking of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , particularly his removal of "unwanted fabric" from churches. Other work carried out by Salvin included rebuilding the keep of Durham Castle for student accommodation, and work on restoring Trinity College, Cambridge . In 1857, while working on Warwick Castle , Salvin suffered a stroke but recovered from it. In 1860, his wife died and he designed
266-542: The monasteries, it became property of the Crown in 1539. In 1569 it was sold to the Company of Mines Royal a subsidiary of a German mining company. The German miners built a camp on the island where they kept animals, grew vegetables and brewed beer. In 1778 Joseph Pocklington bought the island (then known as Vicar's Island) from Miles Ponsonby for £300. He built a house, boathouse, fort and battery , and Druid circle folly on
285-738: The other masonry of the castle. He also restored Naworth Castle in Cumbria after it was damaged by a fire on 18 May 1844. In 1851 he surveyed the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London and subsequently restored the Salt , Wakefield and White Towers and the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula . Following this he was instructed by Prince Albert to carry out work on Windsor Castle . This included replacing sash windows with lancets and mullioned windows and rebuilding
304-522: The title Island House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Island_House&oldid=1105697859 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Derwent Island House Derwent Island House (often called Derwent Isle House )
323-468: Was an English architect . He gained a reputation as an expert on medieval buildings and applied this expertise to his new buildings and his restorations. He restored castles and country houses , and built a number of new houses and churches. Anthony Salvin was born in Sunderland Bridge, County Durham , as the only child of Anthony Salvin, a soldier, and his second wife Elizabeth (Eliza) Mills. He
342-458: Was educated at Durham School and in 1820 became a pupil of John Paterson of Edinburgh while he was working on the restoration of Brancepeth Castle in County Durham. In 1821 Salvin moved to Finchley in north London. He had an introduction to Sir John Soane but did not enter his office. According to his nephew, he entered the office of John Nash . In 1824 he was elected as a fellow of
361-798: Was for Moreby Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire for Henry Preston where he was free to develop a complete design in the Tudor style, again on a symmetrical plan. At Scotney Castle in Kent he designed for Edward Hussey an asymmetrical design in the Tudor style. In 1831 Salvin embarked on what is considered to be his most important early domestic work at Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire for Gregory Gregory. Salvin's design combined elements from Montacute House in Somerset and Hengrave Hall in Suffolk . However, before
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