Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS

Name: BARLOW, -
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Date: 1823
Nature: Arched gateway supported by pairs of columns with Doric entablature ; Doric pediments ot Clerk's and Engineer's offices; Doric portico to retort house.
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 15, citing Belfast News Letter, 2 Sep 1823.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Date: 1869
Nature: Adds.
Refs: IB 11, 1 Jan 1869, 9

Name: STELFOX, JAMES
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Date: 1869
Nature: Telescopic gasometer has been erected by Mssrs. Pigott & Sons, Birmingham, under superintendence of JS.
Refs: IB 11, 1 Jan 1869, 9

Name: STELFOX, JAMES
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Date: 1880ca
Nature: Middle Section Meter House, 'an elegant pink pleasure-dome, with extensive classical panelling, a handsome plaster frieze, and a coved wooden ceiling supporting a great dome of iron and painted glass' (Brett). Damaged in blitz. Derelict in 1985.
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 60.

Name: STELFOX, JAMES
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Date: 1887-88
Nature: Designed office block; 'entrance hall and staircase form an astonishing composition…in strict, if clumsy, classical idiom…all executed in gleaming tiles'(Brett).
Refs: IB 30, 15 Jan 1888, 16; C.E.B. Brett, The Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 60,Pl.60.

Name: WATT, ROBERT GRAEME
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Date: 1887-88
Nature: New; 'designed by a leading local architect [RW] and not by the manager of the works [James Stelfox] as is popularly supposed' (Larmour)
Refs: Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 52-3 (no. 119, illus.)

Name: SHARPE, ROBERT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD, GAS WORKS
Date: 1907-1908
Nature: Addition(s). Contractor: J. & W. Stewart.
Refs: IB 49, 29 Jun 1907, 457; 50, 11 Jan 1908, 21