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. |