Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, RIDDEL HALL

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, RIDDEL HALL
Date: 1913-15
Nature: Initial design by WHL but work carried out by S.P. Close & Son. Builder: Henry Laverty & Sons, Cambridge St.
Refs: IB 57, 10 Apr 1915, 173; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 78 (no. 179, illus.); Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 163(illus.),164-5

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, RIDDEL HALL
Date: 1913-15
Nature: Lynn's design carried out by S.P. Close & Son, who designed gates and lodge
Refs: IB 58, 24 Jun 1916, 284; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 165; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 106,131 (Pl. 174).

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, RIDDEL HALL
Date: 1915
Nature: Lynn's design for gate lodge carried out by S.P. Close & Son
Refs: IB 58, 24 Jun 1916, 284; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 165; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 106,131 (Pl. 174).

Name: CLOSE, RICHARD MILLS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, RIDDEL HALL
Date: 1924
Nature: Entrance gateway pillars by RMC.
Refs: IB 58, 24 Jun 1916, 284; Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 165; McGuinness, 106,131 (Pl. 174)

Name: CLOSE, RICHARD MILLS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS ROAD, RIDDEL HALL
Date: 1934
Nature: Red brick, single storey porter's lodge with gabled porch.
Refs: Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 165.