Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB23/17/005

Address :
Garden Lodge Veterinary Practice 397 Old Holywood Road Holywood Co Down BT18 9QH

Townland:
Knocknagoney

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
20/12/2012 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:
130/08

IG Ref:
J3948 7776

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Detached symmetrical five-bay two-storey mid nineteenth-century rendered house, evolved from an earlier single-storey house with central entrance portico and three gabled returns. L-shaped on plan facing south located on the west side of Old Holywood Road with landscaped gardens to the south and concrete paved yard to the rear with single-storey outbuildings converted for veterinary use. Pitched natural slate roofs with black clay ridge tiles, rendered profiled chimneystacks to either gable end and decorative timber bargeboards. Ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering to eaves cornice with plastic downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walling with rusticated render quoins. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills and 6/6 timber sash windows. Front south elevation is five windows wide with a cornice moulding between floors (as per eaves) and is abutted by modern timber-frame conservatory. Window openings have moulded architrave surrounds with some original cylinder glass and some replacement windows. Central portico comprises pair of Doric piers supporting oversized plain entablature above and corresponding engaged piers abutting the wall glazed with fixed-pane lights to both cheeks. Square-headed door opening with architrave surround and pair of oversized console brackets, replacement timber glazed door and rectangular overlight opens onto red sandstone step. West side elevation is blank and abutted by quadrant screen wall having round-headed pedestrian opening. West elevation runs flush with return and is abutted by 1 1/2-storey rendered outbuilding. Rear north elevation comprises a pair of two-storey gabled returns to either end and a central diminutive two-storey gable containing the stairhall and abutted by a single-storey gable-fronted rear entrance porch. 6/6 timber sash windows to entire elevation with a round-headed window opening to the stairhall with 4/4 timber sash window and coloured margin lights. East side elevation is blank with the east elevation of the return abutted by single-storey three-sided canted bay having steel frame, leaded overlights and replacement double-leaf glazed doors. Setting Set to the west of Old Holywood Road behind a tall rendered wall and accessed via a short concrete paved drive opening into a yard along the rear elevation. Modern commercial buildings front onto this yard with an enclosed small yard to the rear of the house. Landscaped front garden with tennis court and front bitmac parking area. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron Walling Roughcast render Windows 6/6 timber sash

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The house appears, uncaptioned, on the first edition OS map of 1834. It listed in the Townland Valuation of 1834 as a house and offices, valued at £6.8s and occupied by Mr Jackson. The Jackson family have apparently given their name to ‘Jackson’s Road’ which runs to the north of the property. A Mr Jackson is also mentioned in OS Memoirs as the agent of J Kennedy Esq, the proprietor of Holywood and Knocknagoney townlands, and it is possible that the present house was his residence. (OS Memoirs, p.77) A travel guide of 1950 asserts that, “from this pretty home the Jackson family emigrated to the United States and gave to that country a son who was to become famous in her service as General Stonewall Jackson”. (Hayward, p.106) General Stonewall Jackson distinguished himself on the confederate side during the American Civil War. John Jackson, the general’s ancestor, is said to have emigrated from Ulster in 1748 but there are numerous claims across Ulster to an association with the family and the authenticity of this particular claim could not be established. (www.ulstervirginia.com) On the second edition of 1858 the house is captioned, ‘Garden Lodge’ and Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) lists it as the residence of George Jackson, who leases it from John Harrison. It is a house, offices and land with buildings initially valued at £7 and finally at £17, perhaps indicating some rebuilding or remodelling to the property at this time. It is a thatched house with return and stone finished front and several outbuildings are also listed including a thatched cow house. The valuer comments, ‘Neat cottage, good aspect, a large quantity of roofing to repair…A very neat farm house all in good repair’. A large farm goes with the property with land valued at £142. George Jackson died, apparently childless, in 1883 and the property was then taken over by the nearby owner of Redburne House, Robert G Dunville, who, although he is listed as the occupier until 1916, appears to have let or lent the house to relatives and friends, some of whom are recorded in the relevant street directories. In 1890 the property is home to Mrs Chaine (perhaps Mr Dunville’s mother-in-law – he was married to Jeannie Chaine) and in 1901 to Captain Swan. Having taken over Garden Lodge, Dunville also built a gate lodge (HB23/17/004) to his own residence, Redburne House, on the land that formerly belonged to the Jacksons, causing an increase in the valuation of the plot to £30. In 1914 the Dunvilles took down some of the old outbuildings and built new ones, leading to an increase in the valuation to £40. Valuer’s notes for this period give a plan and dimensions of the property. In 1916 the property was taken over by John D Dunville. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/3/1/1 – First Edition OS Map 1834 2. PRONI OS/6/3/1/2 – Second Edition OS map 1858 3. PRONI OS/6/3/1/3 – Third Edition OS Map 1900-02 4. PRONI OS/6/3/1/4 – Fourth Edition OS Map 1919-31 5. PRONI OS/6/3/1/5 – Fifth Edition OS Map 1938-41 6. PRONI VAL/1/A/3/1 – Townland Valuation Map (1828-40) 7. PRONI VAL/1/B/318 – Townland Valuation (1828-40) 8. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/1 – Griffith’s Valuation Map (1856-64) 9. PRONI VAL/2/B/3/18C – Griffith’s Valuation (1856-64) 10. PRONI VAL/12/A/3/21 – Valuer’s Notebook (1911-17) 11. PRONI VAL/12/B/17/2A-M – Annual Revisions (1867-1930) 12. PRONI Will of George Jackson, died 3/9/1883 13. Day, A. and P. McWilliams, eds. “OS Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Down II, 1832-4, 1837, Vol. 7.” Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1991. Secondary Sources 1. Hayward, R “This is Ireland, Ulster and the City of Belfast” London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1950 2. www.ulstervirginia.com

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

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest V. Authorship

Evaluation

Detached symmetrical five-bay two-storey mid nineteenth-century rendered house, evolved from an earlier single-storey house and having central entrance portico. Retaining most of its historic fabric, the house is a good example of a developed mid nineteenth-century semi-rural residence of a type that pre-dates the expansion of Holywood after the coming of the railways. It has interest as the house of the agent of J Kennedy Esq., a major landowner in the area, and due to its possible connections with General Stonewall Jackson. While the rear of the site has a commercial appearance to the yard, the front has landscaped grounds more fitting to its original symmetrical elevation.

General Comments

Date of Survey

03 August 2010