Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, THORNHILL HOUSE (DERRY)

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. DERRY, THORNHILL HOUSE (DERRY)
Date: 1860-1870
Nature: Stable and lodge by TT.
Refs: Note by Hugh Dixon (B. of I.; source not given); Hugh Dixon & Alistair Rowan, 'The architecture of Thomas Turner', Country Life 153, 24 May 1973, 1496.

Name: TURNER & BABINGTON
Building: CO. DERRY, THORNHILL HOUSE (DERRY)
Date: 1882-85
Nature: Large Baronial house for Andrew Alexander Watt (of Watt's Distillery, Derry). FS laid 1 Aug 1882. Builder: Joseph Ballantine. (NB Babington married a Hester Watt, possibly related?)
Refs: IB 24, 15 Aug 1882, 243; 33, 15 Oct 1891, 230; Architect 34, 9 Oct 1885, 223; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 402-3