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ID: 700022621
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700022621
Record Type: Built Work
Shell House (estate (residential complex); probably by architect Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury, among ot...; ca. 1780-late 1820s, additions...; Teifi Valley (Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe, Wor...)
Note: Located in: Teifi Valley, Wales, United Kingdom; comprising gentry house and estate farm; rebuilt from an earlier farm house by Morgan Jones
Titles:
Shell House (preferred,C,U,English-P,,N)
House of Shells (C,U,English,U,U)
Cilwendeg (C,U,Welsh,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
estate (residential complex) [300404837] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name), complexes (buildings and sites), <complexes by function>, housing complexes, <housing complexes by ownership>)
country house [300005567]
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, residential structures, dwellings, houses, <houses by location or context>, <houses by location: settlement area>, rural houses)

Classifications:
architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1780-late 1820s, additions and remodeling through 19th century

Creator Display:
probably by architect Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury, among others; for Morgan Jones and family; rennovations by Ken Filkins as builder, and Blott Kerr-Wilson as leading shell artist [preferred,BWR]
architect Haycock, Edward (English architect, 1790-1870) Qualifier: probably by [500081709]
patron Jones, Morgan, the Younger (British landowner, 1787-1840) [500779178]
builder Filkins, Ken (Welsh builder, born 1947) Extent: restoration [500779179]
artist Kerr-Wilson, Blott (Welsh shellwork artist, active from 1987) Extent: restoration [500779180]
Locations:
Current: Teifi Valley [8723677] (Geographic)
Display Materials: unavailable
Dimensions: unavailable
General Subject:
architecture (preferred,isness,undetermined)

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Built Works
.......... Built Works by class: residential structures
Sources and Contributors:
Shell House........ [BWR,VP]
........ BWR database (2010-) BWR3724854
........ Cleveland-Peck, House of Shells (2006)
House of Shells........ [VP,BWR]
........ Cleveland-Peck, House of Shells (2006) title
........ BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
Cilwendeg........ [BWR,VP]
........ BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
Subject: ....... [BWR,VP]
....................... BWR database (2010-) BWR3724854
....................... BWR-14 Data Reconciliation (2020-2021)
....................... BWR SSID (2010-) 3724854
....................... BWR DSSC ID (2010-) 71776
....................... Avery Index2: BWR Contribution (2010-) 668929
Note:
English ..... [BWR,VP]
..... BWR database (2010-)
..... Cleveland-Peck, House of Shells (2006)
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