Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/18/001 C

Address :
Summer house at Finnebrogue estate off Finnebrogue Road Finnabrogue Downpatrick Co Down

Townland:
Finnabrogue

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
19/05/1997 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Garden Features

Former Use
Garden Features

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Yes

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OS Map No:
224/3

IG Ref:
J4823 4757

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Owner Category

Private

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.

Architects

Not Known

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

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.

Date of Survey

28 September 2001