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Dundarave Manor
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Dundarave House above Bushmills in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is an Italianate country house from the mid-19th century by Sir Charles Lanyon. The name refers to Dunderave Castle on Loch Fyne, the historic seat of Clan Macnaghten in Scotland. The Macnaghtens have been in North Antrim since about 1580; in 1805 they acquired the Bushmills estate from the Dunkins.
Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, later 1st Baronet, inhabited and extended the crenellated Bushmills House. His son Sir Edmund had it demolished around 1846 and built Dundarave nearby (1846–49). Charles Brett called it the grandest 19th-century house in North Antrim. The two-story building of reddish sandstone is grouped around a high gallery hall with Corinthian columns and lantern, modeled after Barry's Reform Club in London. The halls include a drawing-room, dining-room, morning-room, library, and billiard-room; the ballroom has rich stucco. Four lodges (two by Lanyon) and a paved courtyard with stables and clock tower belong to the demesne. Sir Charles Macnaghten modernized the technology around 1910.
Park and woods are listed in the Register of Historic Parks, Gardens and Demesnes. The house is a listed building. It remained a private residence — often referred to as one of the largest privately inhabited houses in Northern Ireland — and was offered for sale in 2014 with around 550 acres. The estate is used for hunting, fishing, and filming.
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