9 Bluestone Road, Lisnamintry, Portadown, Co. Armagh, BT63 5SH

9 Bluestone Road, Lisnamintry, Portadown, Co. Armagh

A single-storey lobby entry house of T-plan layout, Grade B+ listed. The front section comprises four left-hand (north-east) bays with thatched roof and a one-and-a-half-storey end bay to the south-west with pitched roof of natural slate. The ridge of the thatched section is of blue clay tiles. The single-storey two-bay direct entry return has a thatched roof covering. Rainwater goods throughout are of cast iron except for plastic fittings on the porch and extension.

The house sits behind a small grassed area enclosed by a timber ranch-style fence with a modern metal gate between square roughcast pillars topped by projecting pyramidal cappings, with a further stretch of lawn between the fence and Bluestone Road.

The thatch on the front section is draped over the left-hand gable and abuts the one-and-a-half-storey building on the opposite side, finished with lead flashing. The ridge is of block type. The return roof covering is similar, with thatch draped over the gables and a block ridge that includes a small hip on either apex. Three corbelled brick chimneysstacks rise from the building: one over the position of the kitchen hearth, one over the former parlour (now a bedroom), and one serving the fireplace in the dining room extension. Each stack in the main house contains one chimney pot; the extension stack has two pots.

Wall finish on the thatched parts consists of whitened rough plaster, roughcast, or exposed stone, apart from the end gable of the extension which is unwhitened exposed rubble stone. The slated south-west section is of rubble stone and brick construction.

The front elevation features a timber ledged and sheeted door recessed within a projecting windbreak porch with natural slate lean-to roof and plastic rainwater goods. To the left (north-east) is one vertically sliding sash window; to the right are four similar windows with sashes divided into two vertically. Sash stops are moulded and sills are of intermediate depths. At the right-hand extremity of the thatched elevation, a former door opening has been built up retaining a timber sheeted door to preserve the earlier appearance. The stone section at the south-west end of the front elevation has a single window at low level, similar in design but slightly larger in dimensions with increased exposure of the sash boxes and a sill of traditional depth. A lattice-paned window in the gable above, with brick arch and deep sill, lights the upper accommodation. The rear of this section has a window similar to that at the front but of further increased dimensions.

Two windows light the rear of the thatched section before reaching the extension. The first is of similar construction to others on the building with no exposure of the sash box; the second window exhibits increased depth and similarly lacks sash box exposure. At the extension's living room rear wall is a small vertically sliding window with exposed sash box. The left-hand (north-east) gable of the main house is blank.

The extension opens on the south-west elevation via a stone-built windbreak porch under a slight projection of the thatched covering. The timber sheeted door contains a diamond-shaped observation panel. The porch is flanked to the left by a window of the usual type and to the right by a pair of similar windows. At the rear are two windows of the usual type.