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GLENBROOK HOUSE

Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Glenbrook House, Mid Ulster, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade B1
Grade
B1
Type
HOUSE
Date of listing
22 July 1982
Address
GLENBROOK HOUSE, 73 CASTLEDAWSON ROAD, POLEPATRICK, Magherafelt, CO.DERRY, BT45 7DW
Council
Mid Ulster
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.76269, -6.58656
HB reference
HB08/13/013

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Historical information

Glenbrook House was built by Samuel Jackson Cassidy (1807-43) and his wife Esther Wiliamson (Scott) Cassidy (1807-37) between c.1834 and c.1836, the OS Memoirs of the latter year commenting that it had been constructed ‘within the last 2 years’. The designer of the house is not known.

Samuel Jackson Cassidy died childless, and Glenbrook passed to his younger brother, Francis Peter Cassidy (1810-79 - sometimes written Cassidi). His son, Dr. Francis Richard Cassidi (1858-1939) was the next owner, followed by his son, Dr. Francis Laird Cassidi (1889-1963). The latter’s son, Dr. Francis Paul Cassidi, appears to have retained the property until his death in 1989, although it was rented out at least for a time in the 1970s and may have remained vacant during much of the 1990s / early 2000s.

The building was extensively refurbed in 2013.

References - Primary sources
1 OS maps, 6in County series, Co. Londonderry sheet 42 - 1830, 1850-54, 1905-06
2 OS Memoirs, Parish of Magherafelt - 1836

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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