Parkanaur House & Forest, Castlecaufield Co.Tyrone
Parkanaur House & Forest, approximately 4.5 miles from Dungannon, is situated in 415 acres of mature woodland. With lots to offer the visitor, Parkanaur Forest Park is an attractive place to visit - ponds, woodland walks, rivers and not forgetting, the beautiful Tudor Revival style house.
Parkanaur Manor House Dungannon Co.Tyrone Northern Ireland.
Parkanaur Manor House Parkanaur is a large, rambling romantic Tudor Revival house which has evolved through the years. Originally the land was held by the O’Donnelly’s until granted by James I to Sir Toby Caulfield in the early 1600s. The land remained in the ownership of the Caulfields until sold by James Caulfield (1st Earl Charlemont) in 1771 to Ynyr Burges (East Ham, Essex), who had made a fortune in the East India Company as the ‘Secretary & Paymaster of Seamens Wages’. Ynyr Burges appears only to have visited the estate occasionally. Following his death in 1793 a small two storey cottage called ‘Edenfield was built in 1802-1804 as an occasional residence. This may have been built by Ynyr’s daughter Margaret or his nephew John Henry (Wood park, Armagh).
The growing importance of the house from retreat to home to seat is reflected in the graduated scale of the different parts. When John Henry Burges settled on the estate in the 1820’s, the cottage was enlarged. His son John Ynyr added to the building further from 1839 to 1854 encasing the original building and adding a west wing. This new house was then named ‘Parkanaur’ and is built from block rubble on a larger scale. It has a grand terraced front with octagonal shafts or pinnacles and gables at each projection of the façade, a big bay window and an upper oriel and is comparable to Narrow water Castle in Co.Down again by the Newry Architect, Thomas Duff. The original two storey dwelling is still visible with the new building joined onto it. The large plate windows of the 1820 and 1839 additions have mullioned windows with leaded lights and transformed frames and are shielded by block dripstones. The present taller west wing lying along the terrace was laid in 1843, it doubles back to form an upper yard which has a coach house and a tower intended for hanging meat. A free standing office block was added in 1870. A plaque above the doorway leading to the court is inscribed “This house and offices were built by John Ynyr and Lady Caroline Burges without placing any debt upon the property (A.D. 1870)”. The costs of the works was specified not to exceed £5,000.
The house remained within the ownership of the Burges family right up to 1955 when it was vacated and the family moved to England. The house lay vacant until 1958 when it was bought by millionaire ‘Thomas Doran’ for £13,000 as a gift for his friend ‘Rev Gerry Eakins’. Tom Doran had originally came from near Castlecaulfield but had emigrated to the USA as a teenager. There he made his fortune as the founder of ‘The Cheerful Greetings Card Company’. The reason for purchasing the house was to facilitate his friend Rev Eakins in developing a new centre for the education of handicapped young adults. The house reopened in 1960 as ‘The Thomas Doran Training Centre’, (Parkanaur College) and much of the house continues today in this role.
The main entrance is in complimentary style to the house. Again, Duff is likely to be responsible for this design. It is a one and a half storey building constructed in fine grey ashlar, given an informal appearance by its single storey rectangular bay windows, the porch, gablet and big octagonal chimney stacks. At one stage the windows were mullioned as bi and tripartite openings to pretty lattice-paned cast iron lights. There is an extensive and grandiose entrance gate screen with tall octagonal stone pillars with octahedral cappings.
Parkanaur boasts rich “Elizabethan style” interiors. It has a great hall lit by its three perpendicular windows, with a tudor style arched screen and minstrels gallery at its south end. Older works includes the 17th Century Jacobean carved wooden mantel with male and female cyriads and an imported dining room chimney piece dated 1641 with Ionic columns decorated with bunches of grapes interspersed with spiralling vines and cherub heads below the shelf. In the Duff Wing, Mrs Burges sitting room, the Drawing Room (which has a strap work mantel) and a further octagonal room have lofty Jacobean ceilings. There is a pretty mid 17th Century Baroque organ Case in the gallery.
Parkanaur is set in beautiful grounds, wooded by the planting of 21,000 trees and 91,000 quicks by John Henry Burges. It boasts a rare herd of white fallow deer, one of only two herds in Ireland. Much of the original estate is in the ownership of the DARD Forestry Service.
The Architect, Thomas Duff
Born in 1791, Thomas J. Duff received training at the Royal School of Architectural Drawing in Dublin. Duff was a known subscriber to architectural pattern books and inspiration for Parkanaur may well have come from these. He is also responsible for Newry Cathedral, the initial designs of Armagh Cathedral and Narrow Water Castle, described by W.M. Thackery as “a good specimen of the Tudor Gothic”.
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Close to Ironbridge Gorge, we visited another National Trust property of Benthall Hall.
This fine stone country house is situated on a plateau above the river Severn, which runs thru Ironbridge Gorge.
The house has been in the Benthall family, since it was built in 1535.
The current country house was built on the site of 12th century medieval manor house.
The house has some beautiful oak paneling and a beautiful staircase. In the previous property at Dyrham Park we saw the restoration work being completed on the stairs by the National Trust.
The property also had some beautiful Chinese ceramics, however made by the Chinese for the European market likely 18th century.
The neighbouring church, St Bartholomew, has some very interesting history in it..even a bequestment of one of the Benthall family to the poor up on the walls.
The church was rebuilt during the Restoration period after the original church was destroyed in the civil war.
Go up from Ironbridge to the Hall and back, as the property comes with 200 acres of land.
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29-07-2018 - Open Air @ Dungannon Park - Bertie Johnston
Sunday Evening, 29th July 2018
Open Air @ Dungannon Park
Speaker: Bertie Johnston
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Kerry Manor House | Ireland | UK | Oliver's Travels
The property is an attractive mid-Georgian house situated just off the Ring of Kerry, five miles west of Killarney. Set in forty acres of woodland overlooking the River Laune, it is ideally placed for exploring the many attractions of Kerry.
The original building on the site was a short castle, so called because it was only two stories high. It was built by Captain O'Sullivan in 1641 and attacked by Cromwell's forces in 1654. In about 1760, the present house was built including having the remaining three walls of the castle forming the hallway. The interior was altered in 1830 and the chimney pieces and plaster work date from this time.
The Manor House is approved by the Irish Tourist Board. It is listed in the current editions of the Fodor's and Karen Brown's Guide. Between the main house and the four cottages, the owners can accommodate any number from one to thirty people. This is ideal for families or groups of friends who wish to travel together but retain their independence.
???? Polesden Lacey in Surrey - English Country House
A house has stood at Polesden Lacey in Surrey since 1336. The current Edwardian house was last owned by a Margaret Greville, the sole heir of the famous brewer, William McEwan. On her passing in 1942, Mrs Grenville left the estate to the National Trust. The house sits in extensive grounds, including lawns, a walled rose garden and a kitchen or vegetable garden. It is a beautiful place to visit and the character of the estate changes with the seasons.
Pollock House, Scotland
Pollok House was where it all began, back in 1931. The discussions for the founding of the National Trust for Scotland took place inside Pollok’s cedar-panelled smoking room. Now the house is undoubtedly one of the grandest in our care.
This elegant stately home is set in the scenic Pollok Country Park on the outskirts of Glasgow. The Maxwell family lived for six centuries on the site, but the main part of the present house was built in the mid-18th century – an example of Georgian grandeur that would be at home in a Jane Austen novel.
The house was extended in the early 20th century, but the 18th-century features were sympathetically preserved.
Inside, Pollok’s crown is its art collection. Sir William Stirling Maxwell amassed an extraordinary number of Spanish paintings, and portraits of the Habsburg rulers of Spain hang alongside powerful religious scenes. Downstairs, the extent of the tiled passageway is an eye-opener to the scale of work it took to run this magnificent house.
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Piercefield House (Monmouthshire, Wales, UK)
Wikipedia: Piercefield House near St. Arvans, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a largely ruined neo-classical country house. The central block of the house was designed in the very late 18th century, by, or to the designs of, Sir John Soane. It is flanked by two pavilions, of slightly later date, by Joseph Bonomi the Elder. The house sits within Piercefield Park, a Grade I listed historic landscape, that was created in the 18th century as a notable Picturesque estate.
The house is now a shell, along with its extensive stable block, but its status as a Grade II* listed building reflects its importance. It is currently owned by the Reuben brothers, London-based property developers. A campaign to save and restore the building was launched by SAVE Britain's Heritage in 2013.