Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
GLENDARA
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B
- Grade
- B
- Type
- HOUSE
- Date of listing
- 25 November 1977
- Address
- GLENDARA, (AKA HARTFORD COTTAGE), THE MALL EAST, ARMAGH
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.34858, -6.64835
- HB reference
- HB15/17/051
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Historical information
This house was built in 1876-77 for Miss Dorcas Boyd. The identity of the architect is not known; however, the Ruskinian Gothic styling, (and in particular the use of herringbone and chequerboard brick detailing), is very similar to the Masonic Hall of 1884 (now a Gospel Hall) on the opposite side of The Mall, which was the work of local architect John Henry Fullerton (1844-1924).
The house seems to have been originally known as ‘The Cottage’, and later ‘Hartford Cottage’. Around 1889 it was in possession of James McFarlane , followed by Joseph Murphy c.1896, Elizabeth Cowan c.1910, Jane Girvan c.1918, Margaret Erskine c.1923, Eleanor Mackin c.1924 and James Murphy by 1929. William Orr is recorded as living there in early 1932 and William Strain in 1947. The house was advertised for sale in 1956 and a Mr. Rainey was in residence in mid-1975. By the latter date the property had taken on the name ‘Glendara’.
References - Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL12B/10/4D, 4H Annual valuation revision books, Armagh ED - 1874-99
2 OS town plans of Armagh - 1889-91, 1906, 1933, 1947, 1964, 1967, 1976
3 PRONI VAL12B/10/5A-C Annual valuation revision books, Armagh East Urban ED - 1899-1929
4 'Belfast News-Letter' - 1 June 1932, p.5; 10 September 1956, p.1
5 'Frontier Sentinel' - 31 May 1947, p.6
Nearby in the register
- 1 HARTFORD PLACEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 2 HARTFORD PLACEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 3 HARTFORD PLACEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 4 HARTFORD PLACEHOUSEunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.