Summer house at Finnebrogue estate, off Finnebrogue Road, Finnabrogue, Downpatrick, Co Down is a Grade B2 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 19 May 1997.
Summer house at Finnebrogue estate, off Finnebrogue Road, Finnabrogue, Downpatrick, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-doorway-soot
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1997
- Irish grid reference
- J 482 475
- Coordinates
- 54.35527, -5.72069
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The summer house at Finnebrogue estate, located off Finnebrogue Road in Finnabrogue, County Down, likely dates to around 1802. It is a small, single-storey, canted building situated against the south wall of the Finnebrogue estate walled garden, approximately a third of a mile northeast of Finnebrogue House and two miles north of Downpatrick.
The building has a distinctive five-sided, canted plan. Three "front" faces, each oriented southwest, feature large semicircular-headed openings, one of which originally served as the doorway. The facade is rendered over brick, though it is now heavily overgrown with vegetation. The roof has completely disappeared.
The surrounding walled garden dates from 1802, and the summer house is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834, supporting a construction date around 1802. It originally overlooked a partly wooded pleasure garden. The building appears to have been abandoned in the 1960s, with the former garden now densely overgrown.
The summer house possesses group value in relation to other listed buildings on the estate and has the potential to be restored to contribute to the character of the walled garden. Records from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) document the building's history through various maps, valuation records, and the Perceval-Maxwell Papers. It is currently derelict.
Local climate
Summer house at Finnebrogue estate, off Finnebrogue Road, Finnabrogue, Downpatrick, Co Down receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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