Mountstewart
Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
Photographs: National Trust (accessed 29.11.2017).
Photographs: National Trust (accessed 29.11.2017).
Formerly called Holdernesse House. Built ? Demolished in the 1960s to make way for Hilton Hotel. Photo: Wikipedia.
PB: Presumably this is where EVT and his wife were staying when EVT was involved in the shoting in 1870-1? And where there son Charles was born in February 1871?
Garron Tower is a romantic, austere, cliff-top Victorian castle of black basalt, built as a summer retreat by Frances, 3rd Marchioness of Londonderry, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet.... Following the death of her mother in 1834, Frances Lady Londonderry inherited a portion of the Antrim Estate, almost 10,000 acres lying mostly between Glenarm and Glenariff. Following much debate she decided to build a summer residence and in 1848 the foundation stone was laid for Garron Tower.... Lady Londonderry showed a considerable interest in the day to day administration of her estate, demanding detailed reports from her agents.
She was a relentlessly improving landowner, encouraging agricultural improvement and endowing schools, clothing societies, etc.
The link with Lady Antrim's ancestral seat, Glenarm Castle, a few miles to the south is such that it was suspected Lady Londonderry's intention had been to upstage Glenarm Castle with the erection of Garron Tower....
Garron Tower, near Carnlough, County Antrim, was built in stages from 1848-56, initially to the designs of Charles Campbell, architect, of Newtownards, who had selected the site in 1847. The house was ready for occupation by 1850. A new hall, with a projecting rectangular bay facing eastwards, was added to the north of the polygonal tower in 1852, attributed to Lewis Valliamy of London. A front porch was added in 1854.
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[Source: http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/garron-tower.html]
[Was it EVT's son who was born at Glenarm, or his virtual namesake, the Marquiss's son [name?]?]
Since ?, a "grand country house hotel...in 150 landscaped acres with Greek and Roman ruins" on the outskirts of Durham, in the Tees Valley.
EVT and his wife honeymooned here after their marriage in January 1869. Newspapers reported they were expecting to travel in Europe, but I don't know if they did. Photos: source? 2014.