Clifton House, Belfast
Clifton House is one of the few remaining 18th Century buildings surviving in Belfast; the city would become one of the world’s high-tech hothouses in the Victorian era, and the Georgian city was essentially demolished to make way for the new era.
This Grade A listed building was built 1771-4, originally as a poor house. In 1800 it played host to the first trials of inoculation and vaccination in Ireland. Today it is houses a heritage centre alongside a residential home and sheltered accommodation apartments. Some of those are operated by the Belfast Charitable Society, which originally built Clifton House, as is another nursing home a few hundred metres away at Carlisle Circus.
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Clifton House, Belfast
Clifton House is one of the few remaining 18th Century buildings surviving in Belfast; the city would become one of the world’s high-tech hothouses in the Victorian era, and the Georgian city was essentially demolished to make way for the new era.
This Grade A listed building was built 1771-4, originally as a poor house. In 1800 it played host to the first trials of inoculation and vaccination in Ireland. Today it is houses a heritage centre alongside a residential home and sheltered accommodation apartments. Some of those are operated by the Belfast Charitable Society, which originally built Clifton House, as is another nursing home a few hundred metres away at Carlisle Circus.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.