Landmore House, Agivey, was constructed in 1788 for James Orr a linen mill owner. it is a lager double pile (two roofs deep) house. Its basement is constructed in basalt rock with brick trims and the main stories from local Agivey Brick. It has a very fine entrance door and the whole building is beautifully and carefully proportioned. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of the 1830's record that the building commanded a 'rich view of County Antrim and the River Bann. Its winding course appears to good effect at the bottom of the lawn above the plantations that surround it.' The site is not much different today.
Brickfields (where clay was dug up, shaped, and fired, to make bricks) are shown along a large stretch of the River Bann near this area in the 1830 OS map. The accompanying memoirs talk about all the local buildings being constructed from this and that the output was also sent up the river to be sold in Coleraine. The production appears to have reduced by the end of the nineteenth century but some brickfields are still shown on the c1900 OS map. Brick production in the area is first recorded in 1615. George Canning, the agent of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, noted the manufacture of bricks at a kiln across the Bann from Agivey where they were then brought over to complete the upper floors of a stone-built castle for the Ironmongers.
Brickfields (where clay was dug up, shaped, and fired, to make bricks) are shown along a large stretch of the River Bann near this area in the 1830 OS map. The accompanying memoirs talk about all the local buildings being constructed from this and that the output was also sent up the river to be sold in Coleraine. The production appears to have reduced by the end of the nineteenth century but some brickfields are still shown on the c1900 OS map. Brick production in the area is first recorded in 1615. George Canning, the agent of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, noted the manufacture of bricks at a kiln across the Bann from Agivey where they were then brought over to complete the upper floors of a stone-built castle for the Ironmongers.
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