Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL

Name: BATT, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1895
Nature: Unsuccessful competition entrant. For Belfast & Co. Down Railway.
Refs: IB 37, 1 May 1895, 111,114(illus.)

Name: GIBSON & RUSSELL #
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1895
Nature: Placed second in competition (Assessor: Alfred Waterhouse).
Refs: Irish Times, 2 Apr 1895; IB 37, 1 Apr 1895, 84; Building News 68, 5 Apr 1895, 498

Name: TULLOCH, FREDERICK HENRY
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1895
Nature: Competition entry by FHT and Lionel Littlewood, 49 Doughty St, London, awarded 3rd premium by Belfast & County Down Railway Co.
Refs: IB 37, 1 Apr 1895, 84;  Irish Times, 2 Apr 1895;   Building News 69, 6 Dec 1895, 813,834(illus.),829(illus.); Roger Harper, Victorian Architectural Competitions (1983), 123

Name: LITTLEWOOD, LIONEL #
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1895
Nature: Competition entry by Frederick Henry Tulloch and Lionel Littlewood, 49 Doughty St, London, awarded 3rd premium by Belfast & County Down Railway Co.
Refs: IB 37, 1 Apr 1895, 84; Irish Times, 2 Apr 1895; Building News 69, 6 Dec 1895, 813,834(illus.),829(illus.); Roger Harper, Victorian Architectural Competitions (1983), 123

Name: WATERHOUSE, ALFRED #
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1895
Nature: AW assessor of competition for designing same for Belfast & Co. Down Railway Co.
Refs: Building News 68, 5 Apr 1895, 498.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1895-1896
Nature: Y & M supervise erection of hotel designed by James J. Farrall. Tenders invited, Feb 1896.
Refs: Irish Times, 5 Feb 1896;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 259(ILLUS.)..

Name: FARRALL, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1895-98
Nature: JJF wins competition held by directors of Belfast and Co. Down Railway. (Assessor: Alfred Waterhouse). With Young & Mackenzie. Tenders invited, Feb 1896. Clerk of Works: Matthew Alexander Robinson.. Hotel opened Summer, 1898. Cost: £80,000. Ruabon brick with Dumfries stone. Green tiled and copper roof. Contractor: H. & J. Martin.
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Son papers, D1898/1/25-6; IB 37, 1 Apr 1895, 84; 40, 1 Jul 1898, 100; 53, 30 Sep 1911, 672;  IAA, RIAI office archives (Acc. 93/136), membership forms 1878-1909 (extremely fragile);  Irish Times, 2 Apr 1895, 5 Feb 1896;   B 68, 6 Apr 1895, 263; Building News 68, 5 Apr 1895, 498;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 259(ILLUS.).

Name: JERMYN, FREDERICK HERBERT
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1896
Nature: FHJ exhibits 'Competitive design for a Seaside hotel' - almost certainly the Sieve Donard Hotel - at RHA, 1895.
Refs: RHA 1896, 439; IB 38, 15 Oct 1896, 214(illus.),217

Name: ROBINSON, MATTHEW ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: 1896-98
Nature: MAR clerk of works for same.
Refs: IAA, RIAI office archives (Acc. 93/136), membership forms 1878-1909 (extremely fragile)

Name: FULLER & JERMYN
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: ?
Nature: -
Refs: IB 104, 3 Mar 1962, 165

Name: SMYTH & COWSER
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWCASTLE, SLIEVE DONARD HOTEL
Date: ?
Nature: McHugh says swimming pool designed by Cowser.
Refs: Marie A. McHugh, 'The Quiet Man: the life and works of Benjamin Cowser, a dissertation submitted to Queen's University of Belfast, Department of Architecture, 30 Apr 1990, for the Diploma in Advanced Architectural Studies, 33.