1807 – Lissan Rectory, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone
Picturesque Italianate villa, for Rev. John Molesworth Staples (nephew, by marriage, of James Staples of Killymoon Castle,
Picturesque Italianate villa, for Rev. John Molesworth Staples (nephew, by marriage, of James Staples of Killymoon Castle,
The centre piece of the Ulster-American Folk Park is the Mellon Homestead which is still on its original site. A traditional thatched cottage in the Ulster vernacular with a cluster of small outbuildings would have made this a relatively prosperous smallholding.
The estate was bought from the seventh Earl of Cork for £94,400 by James Alexander (later first Earl of Caledon) in 1776.
A large three-storey, seven-bay house, for local MP, Nathaniel Montgomery Moore. The house was named after his mother’s maiden name.
Described in Ordnance Survey of 1833 as “The courthouse is a neat and substantial building, it was erected for the purpose for which it is used,
The original house of the demense was destroyed in 1823 by an accidental fire, and replaced with a larger structure by Captain John Corry Moutray of Castle Coole.
Rebuilt in 1829 by Major Richardson Brady in a heavily symmetrical and very flat “Regency Baronial”
Gate lodge taken from Design No.4 in Robinson’s ‘Designs for Lodges & Park Entrances’ published in 1833.
Built in the 1840s in memory of the 2nd Earl Caledon, in form of Greek Doric column the column was topped by a statue by Cork-born sculptor Thomas Kirk.
Cecil Manor was described as ‘rather forbidding and architecturally uninteresting’ with wide set windows in large solid expanses of wall underneath an overhanging roof with a bracket cornice.