Selected: CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE |
Date: | 1802a |
Nature: | 'splendid mansion' described by McParland: 'consists in front of two principal rooms, 40 feet by 30 each, brilliantly lighted by lofty and bowed windows; the middle compartment between those two rooms is a very fine hall…lighted at the top by a large glass dome; this opens into a light handsome staircase, which leads to two stories of suitable sleeping rooms'. Wing, consisting of breakfast room, &c. |
Refs: | McParlan, Statistcal Survey of Co. Donegal (1802), 12 |
Name: | HARGRAVE, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE |
Date: | 1830 |
Nature: | New front?, for Alexander Stewart. |
Refs: | APSD, H 23 |
Name: | LANYON, JOHN |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE |
Date: | 1874-1875 |
Nature: | Proposed repairs to house and alts. to stables. Also proposed alterations to grounds. For Alexander Stewart. (House demolished 1965) |
Refs: | MS correspondence between JL, ? Murphy and A.J. R. Stewart, 1874-75, in IAA, Acc.2007/47.1; undated (and unexecuted) designs by JL for remodelling house in private collection, Sep 2003 |
Name: | NIVEN, NINIAN |
Building: | CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Garden terraces 'designed by Mr Nevin[sic]'.. |
Refs: | Ms letter from ? Murphy, Dunfanaghy, to A.J.R. Stewart, 28 Aug 1874, in IAA, Acc. 2007/47.1/2 |