Belvoir Park, County Down – demolished 1950s

by jenjunebug

Belvoir Park, County Down – demolished 1950s

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.  

p. 40. “(Hill-Trevor, sub Trevor, Bt/PB; De Yarburgh-Bateson, Deramore, B/PB; Wilson/LGI1912) A large three storey mid-C18 house, refaced ca 1820. Top storey treated as an attic, above cornice. Seven bay front, thee bay breakfront centre with four giant Doric pilasters supporting pediment in attic story, flanked by two oculi. Curved bow on side elevation. Impressive staircase hall, stairs with wrought-iron balustrade; gallery on console brackets. Renovations carried out by William J. Barre ca 1865. Leased towards end of C19 by W.H. Wilson, whose family continued to lease the house after his death. Demolished 1950s to make room for a housing estate.” 

Anne Wellesley née Hill (1742-1831) [or Hill-Trevor] Countess of Mornington, by Thomas Hodgetts, published by Welch & Gwynne, after Priscilla Anne Fane (née Wellesley-Pole) 1839, Countess of Westmorland, Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery NPG D39043. She married Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.

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