25 Drumaran Road, Gilford, Craigavon, Co. Down, BT63 6DB

A symmetrical two-storey three-bay early nineteenth-century house with a slightly later rear addition, located on the south side of Drumaran Road in Kernan townland between Gilford and Loughbrickland. The house links to a linear range of outbuildings extending to the east, with ground-floor accommodation into the attached outbuilding range referred to as the annexe.

The main house is rectangular on plan with the rear addition set parallel to the main ridge and offset slightly to the east. The roof is pitched natural slate with rendered verges and ridge, projecting eaves supporting cast-iron gutters. Gable chimneysstacks are wet dashed, with a blockwork stack to the rear addition. Walling is wet dashed with contrasting smooth rendered quoins and plinth; the rear addition has cement render.

The principal elevation faces north and is symmetrically arranged with three openings about a central entrance. Windows are original 6/6 timber sashes with exposed boxes painted in contrasting colour, set in slightly projecting smooth rendered reveals with painted granite sills and decorative keyblock detail. uPVC replacements are present to the rear, annexe, and east elevation, with some metal casements to the west of the addition.

The central entrance is a wide elliptical-arched opening comprising a painted timber doorcase with replacement three-pane sidelights, wide spiderweb fanlight, and a six-panelled door with brass furniture. The elements are divided by slender timber pilasters and surrounded by smooth rendered quoins and voussoirs. The door is accessed by a paved path, granite step, and threshold.

The east elevation has an M-profile roof line with a blank main gable and a uPVC window to the addition at ground floor. The addition is abutted at its left by a two-storey outbuilding with the annexe at ground floor, accessed by a modern timber-sheeted door with a window to its left. A further infilled doorway with window at right is also present, with openings set within painted smooth rendered reveals. A small window to the upper level lights the loft.

The rear elevation is abutted by a two-storey pitched natural slate roofed addition with ridge parallel to the main block. The exposed section at left is blank. The addition has two uPVC windows to the first floor and is fully abutted at ground floor by a twentieth-century lean-to greenhouse with corrugated perspex roofing. The left cheek has two metal casement windows to the first floor and a uPVC window to ground floor left of centre, with a timber-sheeted door accessing the greenhouse. The west gable is blank.

The attached outbuilding range comprises a series of two-storey stables with lofts, with ridge lines stepping down with the slope of the hill. Roofs are pitched natural slate with skews. Walling is random coursed rubble stone, indicating different building stages, with fieldstone quoins. Openings are formed in brick. Windows include various timber openings, including an unusual six-pane light with timber frame having indented decorative motif. Doors are timber-sheeted, with one set within an infilled coach door opening with segmental brick head. The loft is accessed by external granite steps, each formed from a single piece of stone, with a kennel opening beneath. The outbuilding section closest to the house is cement rendered with uPVC windows.

The house is set parallel to the road in a rural agricultural setting with panoramic views over surrounding countryside. There is a large lawned garden to the rear and a small garden to the front, located either side of the access path. The site is bounded to the road by cast-iron railings with spear finials and a matching gate supported by octagonal granite piers with pointed caps. A painted rubble stone wall separates the garden from the farm entrance at the east. The long farmyard is accessed by a pair of steel gates to the east, supported on rendered piers. A painted cast-iron water pump is located within the gates, and a circular well constructed in rubble stone stands adjacent to the annexe entrance.