Historic houses · Northern Ireland
Springhill House
Springhill House in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Robert Ashby — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Springhill House is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
Photo gallery
From the Wikipedia article
Springhill is a 17th-century plantation house in the townland of Ballindrum near Moneymore, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It has been the property of the National Trust since 1957 and, in addition to the house, gardens and park, there is a costume collection. It is open from March to June, and September on weekends, and is open to the public seven days a week during July and August.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Description
This 17th-century unfortified house was built about 1680-1695 and was originally surrounded by a defensive bawn. Around 1765 two single-storey wings were added and the entrance front was modified to its present arrangement of seven windows across its width.
Visiting
The house today contains a vitally important and almost complete collection of one family's occupation for three hundred years. In the Gun Room can be found one of the largest surviving 18th century wallpaper schemes surviving in the UK (Chinese wallpaper from the 1720s), along with a "long gun" dating to about 1680 which was presented to Alderman James Lenox after the Siege of Derry. Present is a six-inches-long muzzle-loader and two late 18th-Century blunder busses. A 1920 catalogue of the library prior to the National Trust acquiring the property was compiled by Mina Lenox-Conyngham who played a key role in both the dispersal and the preservation of Springhill’s book collection. The…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.6856, -6.6555
- District
- Mid Ulster
- Postcode
- BT45 7NQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Mid Ulster
- Established
- 1699
Sources
- wikidata: Q7581123 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Springhill House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Springhill House?
- Springhill House is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (postcode BT45 7NQ).
- When was Springhill House built?
- Built or established in 1699.
- Who owns Springhill House?
- Springhill House is owned by National Trust.
- How do I get to Springhill House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BT45 7NQ. It sits within the Mid Ulster parliamentary constituency.