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Stormont Castle became the headquarters of the Government of Northern Ireland. Stormont Castle also became the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Ralph Knott designed Stormont House in a Neo-Georgian style. The house was completed in 1926, and a two-storey administration block to its east was finished by 1939.
History. Stormont Castle was completed c.1830 and was reworked in 1858 by its original owners, the Cleland family, to the designs of Thomas Turner in the Scottish baronial style with features such as bartizans used for decorative purposes. [2] The building and 235 acres (95 ha) of adjoining land was bought by the newly established Government of ...
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald GCB (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval officer, peer, mercenary and politician. Serving during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy , his naval successes led Napoleon to nickname him le Loup des Mers (the Sea Wolf).
Crosbie Castle (NS 343 300) and the Fullarton estate lie near Troon in South Ayrshire. The site was the home of the Fullarton family for several centuries. The lands were part of the feudal Barony of Corsbie Fullartoune (sic). [1] The Crosbie Castle ruins were eventually used as an ice house after the new Fullarton House mansion was built.
Gwrych Castle ( Welsh: Castell Gwrych pronounced [ˌkastɛɬ ˈɡwrɨːχ]) is a Grade I listed country house near Abergele in Conwy County Borough, Wales. On an ancient site, the current building was created by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh and his descendants over much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The castle and its 236-acre estate ...
The fess is an allusion to the chequered tablecloth used by the High Steward in the Court of Exchequer for counting money. Alexander Stewart (c. 1210 – 1282), known as Alexander of Dundonald, was a Scottish magnate who in 1241 succeeded his father as hereditary High Steward of Scotland. [1] [2]
Dundonald Castle ist eine Burgruine beim Dorf Killean auf der Halbinsel Kintyre in der schottischen Verwaltungseinheit Argyll and Bute. Es war eine Festung des Clan MacDonald, fiel aber später an die Campbells. [1]
