102 Drummanmore Road, Armagh, Co. Armagh, BT61 8RN

102 Drummanmore Road is a one and a half storey, three bay house with a lobby entry, dating from at least the early 19th century but possibly earlier. A stone inset above the entrance is inscribed "RMC 1785", suggesting an 18th-century origin. The house faces south-east overlooking Drummanmore Road, which extends northwards from the Armagh/Portadown Road, about three-quarters of a mile along the road that eventually leads to Loughgall. Access is by means of a pair of flat iron gates and a short driveway.

The external finish consists of roughcast above a plain rendered recessed base. The thatched roof is terminated on the right-hand (north-east) gable by narrow copings exposed at the sides, covered elsewhere by thatch. At the south-west end the thatch abuts against the rendered gable of the barn. Three rows of scallops are exposed at the ridge with none at the eaves. Cast concrete sections along the top of the front and back walls act as corbel coursing. A corbelled roughcast chimneystack rises on the right-hand (north-east) gable, and a similar feature serves the living room fireplace. Each stack is provided with a pair of tall pots fitted with spark arresters.

The entrance, placed left of centre, contains a pair of doors, each of two chamfered vertical panels, surmounted by a plain fanlight and with full height sidelights containing vertically sliding glazing with sashes divided into two horizontally. The sash stops are moulded, the exposed framing terminates in cover mouldings, and sills are of traditional depths. To the right (north-east) of the entrance are three vertically sliding windows, and to the left are two. All follow the same pattern of moulded sash stops, cover mouldings, and traditionally proportioned sills. Three similar windows light the right-hand gable, one at low level and two lighting the upper accommodation.

At the rear, starting from the left-hand (north-west) corner, the fenestration comprises three vertically sliding windows: one lighting a bathroom formed at the rear of the sitting room, and two in the wall of the living room. Above the latter two, a small horizontal window below the eaves provides light to the first floor bathroom. A kitchen projection with external finish matching the main house has a thatched roof terminated by a deep timber bargeboard with timber fascias at the sides. Three rows of exposed scallops are visible at the ridge with none at the eaves. The fenestration and doorway to this extension are modern with narrow sills. A small square roughcast chimneystack with plain capping is set in the angle between the extension and the outbuilding, fitted with one pot and spark arrester.

A two-storey contiguous outbuilding on the south-west side is of random rubble stone construction with red brick dressings and a pitched roof of natural slate. The front elevation features a large semi-elliptical arched wagon opening with three courses of red brick and two timber sheeted doors with segmental heads, a window opening in a cement surround, and a door. A small hatch of wide timber boards sits above the archway, and a full height two-stage loading bay door is positioned above the central doorway, with the upper leaf made of narrower boards than the lower part. A doorway at upper level in the gable consists of wide boards, and a window opening at low level has been blocked with corrugated iron sheeting. The rear walling exhibits two periods of construction, with the south-west section, last built, measuring about half the width of its neighbour. This elevation contains a door opening at the extreme left, a timber sheeted door at upper level, and three small openings. The interior is divided into two compartments and provided with timber framed stalls.

A house is shown on this site on the Ordnance Survey map of 1835 but not included in the contemporary valuation. It is recorded in the second valuation, in which Sir Capel Molyneaux leased the property to Joseph Stoops with a rateable value of £4. The property also included an orchard at that stage. The house appears on the 1835 OS map as a simple rectangle with a small outbuilding opposite the left-hand (south-west) corner and another of similar size a short distance to the right (north-east).

A scheme of restoration has been carried out attempting to follow traditional forms of detailing, and in general this has been successful with the vernacular character surviving.