Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU HOUSE

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU HOUSE
Date: 1823-26
Nature: Tudor remodelling of Ormeau Cottage, for George Augustus Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall. Composition criticised for being 'monstrous' line of buildings of same height in |Irish Penny Journal|, 1841.
Refs: Description of house in NLI MS 1659(IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Irish Penny Journal 29 May 1841, 377; for other refs. see A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 140-141(illus.)

Name: PRICE, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU HOUSE
Date: 1824ca
Nature: TP supervises building of same to designs by William Morrison. For 2nd Marquess of Donegall.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 141