1799 – Gate Lodge, Northland House, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone
Architect: Robert Woodgate
The gate lodge of Northland House is all that survives today of the ancestral home of the Earls of Ranfurly in Dungannon.
1799 – Hope Castle, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
Architect: Robert Woodgate
Also known as Blayney Castle after the plantation castle nearby (from which the town gets its name),
1804 – Clandeboye, Bangor, Co. Down
Architect: Robert Woodgate
Ballyleidy House was extensively remodelled and extended for 2nd Baron Dufferin, to form a substantial L-shaped building consisting of a 7-bay southern range and 9-bay range to the east.
1840 – Northland House, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone
Architect: Robert Woodgate
Northland House was a three-storey, irregular classical mansion, dating in its final form from around 1840.
1840s – The Temple, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
Built as a summer house for the Blayneys and used by the Hope family. Now largely disappeared, the front columns and wall are standing but covered in vegetation.
Breathing life back into a great estate
Until recent times Clandeboye, one of Northern Ireland’s finest surviving estates, was in decline, but regeneration has brought cultural and commercial renewal.
