Umgola House, County Armagh http://www.nihgt.org/resources/pdf/Register_of_Parks_Gardens_Demesnes-NOV20.pdf

UMGOLA HOUSE, County Armagh (AP ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE and CRAIGAVON 03) A/036 
REGISTERED GRADE B 
A small villa park of 7 acres (2.9ha) lying 0.3 miles (0.5km) west of the Palace Demesne in Armagh, 
north of the Monaghan Road with modern housing estates flanking its north and east sides. It has 
a very well maintained garden and is surrounded by mature trees. This villa (Listed HB 15/19/14 – 
includes a conservatory and glasshouse, gates and railings) is a substantial late-Victorian 
polychrome brick Freestyle mansion, built in 1890-1, possibly by J.H. Fullerton of Armagh, for John 
Compton, who had purchased the Umgola Damask Weaving Factory in 1882. It has bracketed 
eaves, and gables with elaborate ‘fretwork’ bargeboards. The house was extended in 1905, 
including a new entrance and porch to the south garden front and a fine iron-framed 
conservatory by Phillips & Sons of Belfast, the plans of which survive; this has a curved roof with 
somewhat exotic pointed dome entrance bay with coloured glass panes and a classical door case 
with pediment. The long line of greenhouses to the south-west of the house, containing vines and 
peaches, and the smaller (now demolished) one to the east were added in 1912. North of the 
garden is a large L-shaped two-storey brick-built stable yard and a pair of attractive semi- 
detached houses (probably for coachman and gardener), all contemporary with the main house. 
South of the house in the trees is a small square brick summer house with slated pyramidal roof, 
c.1912. One or two original features of the gardens have not been kept up, such as the Japanese 
garden and pond but there is a formal sunken garden, with a rectangular pond in lawns. The main 
entrance to the garden has pair of square stone piers with pyramidal caps and decorative iron 
gates. Originally this entrance opened directly off Monaghan Road, however the road was 
redirected roughly 25m southwards in the later 1900s.