Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB19/17/016 C

Address :
3 Glenmore Terrace Mill Street Hilden Lisburn Co.Antrim BT27 4RW

Townland:
Lambeg South

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
20/06/1984 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
165/07

IG Ref:
J2778 6542

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Terraced two-bay two-storey redbrick house, built c.1860. L-shape on plan including two-storey return, facing south, set back slightly to the north side of Mill Street with enclosed front garden. Pitched natural slate roof with pair of wall-head dormers, round black clay ridge tiles and lead valleys. Redbrick chimneystacks with clay pots, deep overhanging eaves supporting replacement plastic rainwater goods. Decorative timber bargeboards to the front dormers with tall finials. Redbrick walling laid in Flemish bond with cement pointing. Ogee-arched and square-headed window openings with replacement timber sash windows and painted masonry sills. Two-bay front elevation having pair of wall-head dormers with ogee-arched window openings formed in polychromatic brick with replacement 3/3 timber sash window incorporating gothic tracery to the upper sash. Former landscape window opening to ground floor reversed c.1995, with portrait square-headed window reinstated including 6/6 timber sash window. Square-headed door opening to the right with plain painted masonry surround containing replacement panelled timber door with rectangular overlight. Door opens onto tiled step and concrete paved footpath through front garden enclosed to the road by low rubblestone wall with painted sandstone coping and redbrick piers with ogee-shaped painted sandstone capstones supporting iron pedestrian gate. West abutted by No.2 (HB19/17/16B) Multi-bay rough-cast rendered rear elevation abutted by narrow two-storey rendered return having lean-to section to rear gable. Single wall-head dormer to rear, as per front elevation, various square-headed window openings to remainder and return with some original timber sash windows. Rear yard enclosed by tall rendered wall and timber sheeted door opening onto five concrete steps to common rear area and rear garden to north. East abutted by No.4 (HB19/17/16D) Roof Natural slate Walling Redbrick RWG Plastic Windows Timber sash

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The houses are not shown on the second edition OS map of 1858. However, they are listed in Griffith’s Valuation of 1856-64 which gives them a probable date of construction of c1860. They are listed as a terrace of five houses, four of which are valued at £8.5s and the easternmost of which is larger than the rest and is therefore valued at £11.10s. The occupier of the current house is Robert Edmundson, and the end terrace (HB19/17/16A) is unoccupied, suggesting perhaps that the houses have recently been built. They are all leased from Richardson Sons and Owden, linen manufacturers and appear to be houses designed for members of the workforce at Glenmore Bleach Works situated to the north. As the houses are larger and of finer quality than others in ‘Richardsons Row’, ‘Bridge Street’ and ‘Mill Street’ it can be surmised that these were houses intended for overseers or foremen. By 1867 William Edmundson is in residence, but unfortunately later Annual Revisions notebooks for this area are missing. According to Rankin, the Richardsons were one of the oldest linen families in the North of Ireland, settling here in the early seventeenth century. Shortly after their arrival they became Quakers, in common with some other important linen families in the north and, as Quakers were actively discouraged from marrying outside their sect, they tended to intermarry with these other families. John Richardson (1719-59) married the daughter of William Hogg who had a bleach green at Glenmore. Their son Jonathan Richardson (1756-1851) bought a further bleach green at Glenmore belonging to the Hunter family and was the first in the linen bleaching industry to succeed at winter bleaching which meant he was able to run his works all year round. The business increased substantially and in 1830 the family bought a further, adjoining, bleach green and amalgamated it into their works. Jonathan had three sons, James, John and Joseph who presided over the growth and success of the business. The eldest son James took as a partner, John Owden and founded the company of J.N. Richardson, Sons & Owden. He increasingly left the management of the business to Mr Owden and died in 1847, having purchased Lambeg House and renamed it Glenmore in 1835. His eldest son Jonathan retained a financial interest in the company but was little involved in its day to day running, cultivating the life of a country gentleman at Glenmore. It seems that Mr Owden is more likely to have been the prime mover behind the construction of Glenmore Terrace. Jonathan’s brother, John Grubb Richardson, purchased an estate in County Armagh where he built the model village of Bessbrook with its large spinning and weaving mills that worked in conjunction with the Glenmore Bleach works. A constant concern was shown by the Richardsons for the social and moral welfare of their workers, and this concern extended to providing good-quality housing. (Rankin 2002, p.86-96, Rankin 2007, p.161) References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/1/64/3 – Third Edition OS Map 1901 2. PRONI OS/6/1/64/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1920-1 3. PRONI OS/6/1/64/5 – Fifth Edition OS Map 1920-31 4. PRONI OS/6/1/64/6 – Sixth Edition OS Map 1920-39 5. PRONI VAL/2/B/1/59 – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) 6. PRONI VAL/12/B/8/7A-D – Annual Revisions (1867-1929) Secondary Sources 1. Rankin, K “The Linen Houses of the Lagan Valley, The story of their families” Belfast, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2002 2. Rankin, K “The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley, The story of their families” Belfast, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2007

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form H-. Alterations detracting from building I. Quality and survival of Interior J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

Z. Rarity X. Local Interest V. Authorship

Evaluation

Terraced two-bay two-storey redbrick house dating from c.1860. One of a terrace of five similar houses, built for the overseers at Barbour Thread Mill, this terraced house retains much original fabric including roof materials, front boundary wall and gate and timber sash windows. This house forms an essential part of this terrace as a whole. The terrace is rare survivor of this style and each house has group value with the other listed houses in the terrace.

General Comments

Previoulsy recorded as HB19/17/016

Date of Survey

07 May 2010