Rademon, Crossgar, County Down 

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. 237. “(Sharman-crawford/LGI1912) Originally a five bay early to mid-C18 house of three storeys over a basement, with single-storey wings; built by the Johnson family, whose heiress married James Crawford later in C18. Enlarged and embellished mid-C19; gutted by fire 1950s. Rebuilt very successfully to the design of Hon Claud Phillimore, who lowered the centre block by a storey, and added a storey to the wings, so as to produce a two story nine bay front; the five bays of the original main block being pleasantly emphasised by having taller ground floor windows than those in the end bays, which were formerly the wings; and by the extra spacing between the five central windows and those on the outside. Eaved roof on plain cornice; curved end bow. In the demesne, there is a handsome hilltop obelisk, erected by the tenants of the estate ca 1864 in memory of William Sharman-Crawford, MP, the radical politician.”