Calendar house
Type of manor house / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Callendar House, a mansion in Falkirk, Scotland.
A calendar house is a house that symbolically contains architectural elements in quantities that represent the respective numbers of days in a year, weeks in a year, months in a year and days in a week.[1] For example, Avon Tyrrell House in Hampshire was built with 365 windows, 52 rooms, 12 chimneys, 7 external doors, and 4 wings (representing the seasons).[2] This style was developed during the Elizabethan era[1] and was also prevalent during the Victorian period.[3]