Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, CAIRNDHU HOUSE

Name: CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK
Building: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, CAIRNDHU HOUSE
Date: 1897-98
Nature: Major alterations to house for John Stewart Clarke, J.P., nephew of Hugh Smiley of Drumalis, turning it into 'a large multi-gabled house of asymmetrical plan and irregular outline, designed in a vaguely Tudor style but otherwise given a Chinese flavour by the fret-like treatment of its timber verndas and balconies'(Larmour) Also gate lodge
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/28; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 94-96,130 (Pls. 155-157,159,160); Paul Larmour, 'A Worthy Victorian Architect' , Perspective: the Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects 5 (May/Jun 1998), 74(illus.),75(illlus.)