Turmoyra Farm, Boconnell Lane, Craigavon, BT66 6NE

A single-storey three-bay hearth-lobby-entry mud-walled vernacular dwelling, built c.1850, located east of Boconnell Lane, in close proximity to Oxford Island. Rectangular plan with breakfront porch, rear outshot, two-storey addition to SW, and attached lean-to outbuildings to NE. Steeply pitched corrugated-metal roof to main block, with lead ridge-capping and two red brick chimneystacks located to NE gable and to left of centre; pitched slate roof to addition with single chimneystack to SW gable. Extruded aluminium rainwater goods supported on timber eaves board. Smoke-blackened original sawn rafters and purlins with scraws visible in part, no evidence of thatch remaining. Pitched natural slate roof to two-storey addition with angled-clay ridge tiles and red brick chimneystack to SW gable-end; brick eaves. Mud-walled construction to original block, with brick and rubble stone, beneath layers of limewash; two-storey section is roughcast rendered, apart from the gable, which is an amalgam of brick and rubblestone. Windows are infilled with breeze-block throughout, timber lintels and no cills. Principal elevation faces SE, asymmetrical with breakfront porch left of centre, two single windows to either side. Extended to SW by the two-storey addition, which has two windows to each floor, aligned to right. The door has been replaced with a hardwood security door. SW gable completely abutted; addition gable has a blocked up window opening to first floor right. Rear (NW) elevation has three blocked-up window openings to main section, and to addition; the outshot is located to extreme left. The wall is built up, defining area of former thatch. NE gable is abutted by lower lean-to outbuildings, in limewashed rubble stone and concrete block with monopitched corrugated metal roof, also with infilled openings. Exposed section is roughcast rendered and blank. Setting: Occupying a large open site in a rural setting with farmland to all sides. Accessed via a long lane off Boconnel Lane, south of the M1 and Oxford Island. To rear is a mature apple orchard with panoramic views from north, east and south. Roof: Corrugated metal and slate Walling: Mud, stone and brick Windows: Infilled; metal framed remains internally RWG: Replacement