Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Summer house at Finnebrogue estate
Finnabrogue, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Garden Features
- Date of listing
- 19 May 1997
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Summer house at Finnebrogue estate, off Finnebrogue Road, Finnabrogue, Downpatrick, Co Down
- Townland
- Finnabrogue
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.35527, -5.72069
- Date of survey
- 28 September 2001
- HB reference
- HB18/18/001 C
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Small, single storey, canted summer house of perhaps c.1802, now overgrown and roofless. The building is built against the south wall of the Finnebrogue estate walled garden, roughly a third of a mile NE of Finnebrogue House, two miles N of Downpatrick.
The building has a canted (five-sided) plan. To each of the three ‘front’ (SW facing) faces there is a large semicircular-headed opening (the central of which must have been the doorway).
The façade is rendered, (over brick), but is now largely covered in plant growth. The roof has completely fallen away.
Historical information
The walled garden to the immediate south of this small summer house dates from 1802. The summer house itself is shown on the OS map of 1834 and may also date from 1802. It originally faced into what was a partly wooded pleasure garden. The building appears to have been finally abandoned in the 1960s, with the former pleasure garden now densely overgrown with trees and bushes.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI T.1023, D.1556, D.2480, D.3244, D.3817, D.4218 Perceval-Maxwell Papers, 1606-1969
2 PRONI OS/6/3/30/1 6in OS map, Co Down, sh 30, 1834
3 PRONI OS/6/3/30/2 6in OS map, Co Down, sh 30, 1858
4 PRONI VAL.12B/18/13a-d Annual valuation revision books, 1864-79, 1880-97, 1898-1911, 1912-29
5 PRONI OS/6/3/30/3 6in OS map, Co Down, sh 30, c.1901
6 PRONI OS/6/3/31/3 6in OS map, Co Down, sh 31, c.1901
Secondary sources
1 Anthony Malcomson, ‘The Perceval-Maxwell Papers- Introduction’ (1998) [Available at PRONI]
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
B. Proportion
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
V. Authorship
Evaluation
Small, single storey, canted summer house of perhaps c.1802. despite being overgrown and roofless this little buiding has group value with the other listed buildings on the estate and has the potential to be repaired and add character to the walled garden.
General comments
In the first survey this record was numbered HB18/18/003.
Nearby in the register
- Gardener's bothy at Finnebrogue estateWalled Garden Structureunder 1 mi
- Walled garden at Finnebrogue estateWalled Garden Structureunder 1 mi
- Gardener's house at Finnebrogue estateHouseunder 1 mi
- Stables at Finnebrogue estateStablesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.