Selected: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1747ca |
Nature: | Root house already built for £5; also lodge consisting of large room with 3 rooms behind 'in the form of Buckingham House' already built. Bone house proposed. For John, 5th Earl of Orrery. |
Refs: | E.C. Orrery, ed., The Orrery Papers (1903), II, 2-3 |
Name: | COOLEY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1779 |
Nature: | Original 2-storey villa on half basement by TC (apparently as executant architect for design by James Wyatt). For James Alexander, later 1st Viscount Caledon. |
Refs: |
Drawing, signed and dated 1779, in house; working floor plans in NLI AD 3417-18; Christopher Hussey, 'Caledon - Co. Tyrone', Country Life 81, 27 Feb,6 Mar 1937, 224,250; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 161-2; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012),116. |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1779 |
Nature: | 'The only excursion I ventured was for about ten days to Mr. Alexander at Caledon...new house is built from Desings of Wyatts, very well contrived and handsome.' |
Refs: |
Letter from Andrew Caldwell, Dublin, to Charlotte Caldwell, Southampton, 27 Aug 1787, cited in John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012),116. |
Name: | COOLEY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1779ca |
Nature: | Stables attr. to TC by Rowan. For James Alexander, later 1st Viscount Caledon. |
Refs: | Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 163 |
Name: | DAVIS, WHITMORE [2] |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1783-88 |
Nature: | Whitmore Davis involved in building and fitting out of new house. For James Alexander, later 1st Viscount Caledon. |
Refs: | Introduction by Knight of Glin to catalogue of Christie's sale at Charleville, 23-24 Jan 1978, citing list of houses 'chiefly built under his[Davis's] immediate direction' in Dublin Evening Post 1789; PRONI D2433/33/2; Caledon MSS, as cited by Hugh Roberts in letter to Knight of Glin, 21 Jun 1991. |
Name: | SUTHERLAND, JOHN |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1807 |
Nature: | JS lays out grounds and erects hothouses costing over £2,000. Carpenter: Lilly. for 2nd Earl of Caledon. |
Refs: | Payments to Sutherland and Lilly, 1807, in Ledger of 1st & 2nd Earls of Caledon, PRONI, D2433/A/4/12/1 (see PRONI E-catalogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx , last visited Nov 2011); Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 46 |
Name: | NASH, JOHN |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1807-10;1815;1830ca |
Nature: | Alts. (screen of columns on N front and terminal pavilions) for 2nd Earl of Caledon. Also gate lodges. 1815, and c.1830. For 2nd Earl of Caledon. |
Refs: | Caledon estate papers, PRONI D2433/10; payments to Nash, 1807-1809, recorded in Ledger of 1st & 2nd Earls of Caledon, PRONI, D2433/A/4/12/1 (see PRONI E-catalogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx , last visited Nov 2011); Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (3rd edn., 1995), 693; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 162; Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 146-7(illus.) |
Name: | LEAK, - |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1808-1810 |
Nature: | Clerk of works to John Nash for building of house for 2nd Earl of Caledon. |
Refs: | PRONI, D2433/10 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | GILPIN, WILLIAM SAWREY # |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1829 |
Nature: | Designs for terraces on S front for 2nd Earl of Caledon. |
Refs: |
Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 164. |
Name: | DUFF & JACKSON |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE |
Date: | 1832ca |
Nature: | Alts., New entrance. for 2nd Earl of Caledon. |
Refs: | NLI, MS 1658 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); H. Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 7,11(no.15); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 162 |