“The demesne for a former house of 1611. The present house dates from 1857-8”. The minutes of the Town Improvement Committee 29 January 1881 indicate the naming of: “the public highway from University Road to the Borough Boundary, near the river Lagan, ‘Strandmillis Road’.”
That Mr. Samuel Whiteside of Rosapenna Street be informed in reply to his application of 11th Inst. that the Committee cannot approve of the name Sandhurst Gardens for a new street on his property situate off Strandmillis Road. (19th April 1899).