36 Ballynagarrick Road, Portadown, Co. Armagh, BT63 5NR

A single storey, three bay, lobby entry thatched house with harled and whitened finish to walls that are partly of stone and partly of mud construction. The base is painted black. The house, that faces south-west in a roadside position, is accessed by turning in a north-easterly direction from Moyallon Road at the Drumlyn intersection and then travelling about three-quarters of a mile. The thatch covering is raised above and contained within parapet gables. The right hand (south-east) gable rises to a corbelled chimneystack and there is a further stack above the position of the kitchen hearth. The stack on the gable that serves a stove is provided with a cowl. The timber-sheeted door with glazed diamond shaped panel is recessed within a square jambed windbreak porch above which the level of the thatch rises to accommodate the roof slab. The porch is flanked to the left (north-west) by a vertically sliding window with single vertical division of the sashes and sills of traditional depths. Two similar windows appear at the opposite side of the porch. The gables of the house are without fenestration. A lean-to store abuts the left-hand (north-west) gable. The roof is of corrugated iron. The wall finish matches that of the main house and the timber sheeted door positioned at the front is shaped at the top to accommodate the roofline. At the rear a short link entered from the kitchen gives access to an extension that accommodates a bedroom and a bathroom. The pitched roof of this unit is finished with natural slate, the plastic gutters are on drive-in hooks, the wall finish is of whitened roughcast and the windows are vertically sliding with deep sills. The door is of four panels with the upper two glazed. The fenestration on the rear wall is of the casement type. To the right (north-east) of the extension firstly there is a large three section window with the sashes divided into two horizontally and then a 3x2 window. The sills of these lights are narrow. To the left of the extension there is another 3x2 window with a deep sill. Use of casement windows was approved by EHS in January1986