castlecomerhouse

Never mind the house - look at that herbaceous border

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 28 older comments, and then…
• Suck Diesel said:

  “Lady Anne returned to Castlecomer to live, and began a major reconstruction of the town, church, and manor house. The new Castlecomer House, completed in 1802, was much larger and grander than the original. The house had 365 windows, one for each day of the year”
  
  familynibbles.com/2022/08/17/234-castlecomer-and-the-wand...

• beachcomber australia said:

  'Monkey' swung by in November 1956 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000737720

• Quite Adept said:

  Calendar houses were popular. So we’re there 52 rooms, and maybe 12 chimney stacks, or 12 staircases?
  
  www.countrylife.co.uk/property/country-houses-for-sale-an....

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  suckindeesel Quite Adept I think this is our first (knowing) encounter with a calendar house?

• beachcomber australia said:

  Evidently Adare Manor is also a calendar house ...
  "... The building is a calendar house, featuring 365 windows and 52 chimneys, among some other design characteristics. Along the top of the building an extract of psalm 127:1 is made from carved stone: "Except the Lord build the house, then labour is but lost that built it"."
  via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adare_Manor