Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, SEAFORDE HOUSE

Name: LILLY, CHARLES
Building: CO. DOWN, SEAFORDE HOUSE
Date: 1805
Nature: Design for Adamesque entrance arch and screen is possibly unexecuted proposal for Seaforde, for Matthew Forde.
Refs: Elevation and plan in Forde family papers, Seaforde, Co. Down; J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster: a gazetteer (UAHS, 1994),  93-94(illus.)

Name: ROBINSON, PETER FREDERICK #
Building: CO. DOWN, SEAFORDE HOUSE
Date: 1816-1820
Nature: Classical. 'Built 1816-20 by Co. Mathew Forde, replacing an earlier house burnt 1816; thought to be by the English architect, Peter Frederick Robinson.'(Bence Jones) (Curved portico later replaced.)
Refs: Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 256(illus.)

Name: ROBINSON, PETER FREDERICK #
Building: CO. DOWN, SEAFORDE HOUSE
Date: 1825;1833
Nature: Front gate and lodge, for Mathew Forde. One of six alternative designs prepared by PFR. Not executed until 1833.
Refs: Design, initialled and dated Aug 1825, and 5 alternative designs  in Forde family papers, Seaforde;  J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster: a gazetteer (UAHS, 1994),  94-95(illus.)

Name: LYNN, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, SEAFORDE HOUSE
Date: 1834a
Nature: North gate lodge designed by JL for Mathew Forde. (Dean suggests that E & W lodges were built after JL's design but at a much later date.)
Refs: Gordon Wheeler, 'John Lynn - Architect/Contractor/Engineer', Lecale Miscellany (1997), 38-39(illus.); J.A.K. Dean, Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 74,95

Name: FOOT, EDWARD
Building: CO. DOWN, SEAFORDE HOUSE
Date: 1860s
Nature: EF consulted by Matthew Forde, senior, about rebuilding or enlargement of earlier house.
Refs: PRONI E-catalogue, Matthew Forde letters, MIC5991, see http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx lst visited, Nov 2011.