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Tudor House           

NAME                            Tudor House                               

AREA LOCATION         Taney Road/Sydenham Road, Dundrum
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MAP LOCATION          OSI map of 1898-1913 place it in the townland of Dundrum and it is 
                                        annotated as Tudor House
                                     
GENERAL                       It was on sale in 1859 (nearly finished) on nearly one acre.  It had four
reception rooms, six bedrooms and three servants rooms.  It also had a lock-up yard and stabling.          

YEAR BUILT                  circa 1859 in Anne Field 
 
VALUATION                 In 1938 the valuation was 65 pounds and in the 1901 census it is noted as
​                                        having 13 rooms occupied by family.
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ARCHITECT                   Unknown but built by Bentley Brothers.         
 
SOURCES                       Thom's, contemporaneous newspapers, NAI Census & Wills and OSI Maps
  
OCCUPANTS
1859                               To let with additional 
​1864                               John Cochrane
1865 - 1876                   Robert F Franks
1877 - 1897                   Dr Isaac Usher
1898 - 1913                   Robert Francis Scharff (Curator/Keeper of the Natural History Museum
1917 - 1942                   Dr J F Neary
1944 - 1948                   Miss Dowels/Miss Barclay
1960 - 1962                   Mary Bowles (wife of Spotswood Robert Bowles)
                
STAFF
​1901                               Elizabeth Peters - Housemaid
                                        Mary Ellen Brennan - Cook
                                        Franziska Emma Arras - Governess
1911                               Mary Cusack - Cook
                                        Mary Kavanagh - Housemaid
CURRENT
STATUS                         Extant

CONTRIBUTOR            ©​ June Bow & Karen Poff
DATE                              November 2019