Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE

Name: WOODGATE, ROBERT
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: 1801-04ca
Nature: Remodelling of and addition of S range to Ballyleidy House for 2nd Baron Dufferin, to form L-shaped building consisting of 7-bay S range and 9-bay E range.
Refs: Peter Rankin, 'Clandeboye House', in Clandeboye(UAHS., 1985), 18-23(illus.); Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999),45,46(illus.);  Ptolemy Dean, 'Forgotten genius:  Clandeboye House, Co. Down, part I', Country Life, 203, 2 Dec 2009, 48-51.

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: 1830-31
Nature: Works, including water closets, for 4th Baron Dufferin.
Refs: Transcript of letters in possession of Col. J.R.H. Greeves, cited by Gerard M. Rogers, 'The Work of Thomas Duff (1792-1848)', dissertation submitted to Queen's University, Belfast, School of Architecture, 1986, 43-4,53

Name: BURN, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: 1848-49
Nature: Unexecuted proposal for Elizabethanizing house. For 5th Baron Dufferin.
Refs: Designs in collection of Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 12 (no. 23, elevation repr. p.33)

Name: FERREY, BENJAMIN #
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: 1865
Nature: Unexecuted designs for remodelling. For Frederick Temple, 5th Baron Dufferin.
Refs: 2 elevations in collection of Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Clandeboye, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 14, no. 40; RA 1865 (no. 787); Mark Bence-Jones, 'The Building Dreams of a Viceroy - I'. Country Life 148, 1 Oct 1970, 818; Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 46

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: 1865;1888
Nature: Proposed remodelling in 'Scotch Jacobean' style; proposed new hall. For Baron Dufferin, Earl of Dufferin (1871) and Marquess of Dufferin & Ava (1888). All unexecuted. Dufferin designed his own alterations but may have been assisted by Lynn 'at least in some of the work carried out in the 1860s …the dining-room, drawing-room , library and gallery'.(Rankin) Service court and conversion of of kitchens into new hall and inner hall attr. to WHL by Goodall.
Refs: 2 views by W.H. Lynn in collection of Marquess of Dufferin & Ava, 1978, see H. Dixon, William Henry Lynn (Ulster Museum, 1878), no. 3 & 4; Mark Bence Jones, 'The building dreams of a vice-roy I & II: Clandeboye, Co. Down', Country Life 148, 1,8 Oct 1970, 818-819(illus.),902; Peter Rankin, 'Clandeboye House', in Clandeboye(UAHS,1985), 20; Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 46;  John Goodall, 'An imperial adventure: Clandeboye House, Co. Down, part II, Country Life 203, 43-51(illus.).

Name: LANYON, JOHN
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: 1889p
Nature: Works at same? For Frederick Temple, 1st Marquess of Dufferin & Ava.
Refs: Letters from Marquess of Dufferin & Ava to John Lanyon re building plans for same, 1889 onwards, and  letters from John Lanyon [to same?], 1880-1900, in PRONI, D2815 and D1071/H/B/L/73(see PRONI e-catalogue).

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: RM prepares drawings for same.
Refs: Drawings by RM for Clandeboye seen by Knight of Glin (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: FRASER, JAMES
Building: CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Early 19th c. planting considered by Terence Reeves-Smyth to be the work of JF.
Refs: Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 48