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1960 – Outlook House, Holywood, Co. Down
Architect: Ian Campbell

Later extended - according to Campbell’s obituary in the 'RIBA Journal', he and his wife lived in a caravan in the car park at the front of their office while they built this, their house 'Outlook' on a site overlooking Belfast Lough. In different stages of complet
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1956 – Civic Centre, Holywood, Co. Down
Architect: Munce & Kennedy

Civic centre including library, a maternity and child welfare clinic, council chamber, and a public hall for 500 designed in the late 1940s for Holywood Co. Down. Built in two stages. According to The Builder "The immediate problem was one of circulation and access, and
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1961 – St. Mary’s High School, Newry, Co. Down
Architect: Corr & McCormick

The Education Act 1947 provided for free secondary education to all throughout the United Kingdom. The immediate result was an explosion in pupil numbers, a shortfall in teaching staff and greater pressure on existing resources. This prompted a boom in school buildings acro
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1957 – Cyril Lord Carpet Factory, Donaghadee, Co. Down
Architect: McAlister, Mather & Partners

A factory built for textile entrepreneur Cyril Lord, known as "The Carpet King". Lord’s diversification into carpet manufacture was prompted by a major technological innovation – the introduction into
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1854 – St. Mary’s Church, Newcastle, Co. Down
Architect: John J. McDonnell

Starting life as a simple single aisle church, the nave was entended by two bays, and a polygonal apse later added. The entrance front and spire were added to St. Mary's around 1910, tenders being invited in 1909, to designs by John J. McDonnell. External embe
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1897 – Enniskeen House, Newcastle, Co. Down
Enniskean House was built in the late 1890s by R.W Murray a businessman from Virginia in the United States. Built as a summer retreat and designed to take advantage of the spectacular views of the Mourne mountains.

Murray was principal of Murray Sons & Co. Ltd tobacco manufactu
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1905 – Former Railway Station, Newcastle, Co. Down
The first terminus of the Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) opened their line south from Downpatrick in March 1869, but the current building dates from a 1905 remodelling when the Great Northern Railway of Ireland arrived here from Banbridge. The station at Newcastle is a
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1902 – Dunleath Arms Hotel, Ballywalter, Co. Down
Architect: William J. Fennell

Small hotel, Lord Dunleath "intends to run the inn under the Gothenburg principle, falling into line with a movement which is increasing in favour in the North of Ireland". Now a private residence.

The Gothenburg or Trust Public House
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1849 – Groomsport House, Groomsport, Co. Down
Architect: James Sands

A two-storey sandstone Jacobethan house designed by English architect James Sands for John William Perceval-Maxwell, of Finnebrogue. After some years as an hotel, much altered - the basement has been excavated, and the building e
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1841 – First Presbyterian Church, Holywood, Co. Down
Also known as Bangor Road now Holywood First Presbyterian Church. This church was designed by the minister, the Rev William Blackwood, who also superintended its construction and was built at a cost of £1,500. It was built in the Gothic Revival style, then
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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. Throughout the late 1840s and 1860s, other designs
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1786 – Bryansford Gate, Tollymore Park, Bryansford, Co. Down
Architect: Thomas Wright

One of several ornate gateways, follies, and eye-catchers in the former demense of Tollymore Park. This distinctive granite gate features foiled buttresses, crenelated parapets, and crocketed pinnacles, and was based on a design by Thomas
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1755 – Belvoir Park, Newtownbreda, Co. Down
Architect: Christopher Myers / William J. Barre

A Georgian house for Arthur Hill, later Viscount Dungannon, which was added to the North end of an earlier house. Later additions by William J. Barre to the house including the fine courtyard with r
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1867 – Lissara Presbyterian Church, Crossgar, Co. Down
Architect: William Barre

The Foundation Stone of the Church was laid on 26 August 1865 by James Sherman Crawford, Esq., J.P. on a site in Crossgar Square donated by James Cleland, Esq., J.P. The new church cost less t
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