Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, SION MILLS, SION HOUSE

Name: UNSWORTH, WILLIAM FREDERICK #
Building: CO. TYRONE, SION MILLS, SION HOUSE
Date: 1884a
Nature: Remodelling of stuccoed Italianate house as half-timbered Tudor mansion. FWU also designed entrance gate, bridge, grounds, fittings and principal furniture. Style described by IB as one of 'absurd heterogeneousness'. Completed end 1884. For Emerson Tennent Herdman.
Refs: Design exh RA 1884, no. 1262; IB 26, 1 Dec 1884, 357; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 488