47 Main Street, Loughgall, Armagh, Co Armagh, BT61 8HZ

47 Main Street, Loughgall, is an early 19th century house that retains its original features to the front and forms an attractive feature in the village main street. The building appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map of County Armagh and dates from between 1820 and 1839.

The house is a 2-storey, 4-bay gabled structure with a single-storey extension to one end and a long rear return, its main entrance facing north-west. The roof is laid with Bangor blue slates in regular courses, and there are three red brick chimneys with simple block cornices on the main block.

The north-west elevation of the main block has rendered walling with wet dash finish, painted white, with black-painted smooth rendered quoins and a slightly raised plinth of similar treatment. The four first-floor windows are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung and 6 over 6. The first two to the left and the third have horns and exposed sash boxes with projecting cills; the fourth lacks horns. On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a 6 over 6 sashed window without horns, the main entrance, a large broad tripartite window, and a rectangular doorway. The tripartite window comprises three timber sliding sashes, each 3 over 6 with horns, separated by moulded mullions.

The main entrance is the building's most distinctive feature. It contains a rectangular panelled door set between engaged fluted Ionic columns on block bases, carrying a panelled frieze. The entrance is flanked by narrow sidelights filled with interlocking curved astragals and set in an elliptically arched surround. The rectangular doorway to the right contains a panelled timber door surmounted by a 3-light rectangular fanlight, set in plain reveals.

The single-storey extension extending to the right and set back slightly has a slated roof, one red brick chimney on the gable, and rendered white wet dash walling with a black-painted smooth rendered plinth. It contains two windows of coupled rectangular timber sliding sashes, 2 over 2, with horns and moulded mullions.

The north-east elevation of the main block is a plain gable with rendering as the entrance front, though with black-painted quoins only at the right-hand extremity, and oversailing eaves.

The rear elevation of the main block is 2-storey with slated roof and includes one original flush rooflight. The wall is rendered with wet dash, painted white except above the lower 2-storey rear return wing. Two first-floor windows are present: a rectangular timber sashed window, 6 over 6, with horns, to the right, and a circular window with radial glazing bars and looped margin lights to the left. The ground floor contains a rectangular window similar to the first floor.

Projecting centrally from the rear is a single-storey lean-to block with slated roof and rendered walls. Its side wall contains a rectangular 15-pane fixed light, its rear wall a small rectangular 4-pane timber window and a rectangular glazed 15-pane timber door.

Projecting from the left-hand side is a long 2-storey L-shaped rear return wing with a low-pitched roof of corrugated sheeting. Its north-east facing wall is white-painted roughcast, containing 3 rectangular timber sliding sash windows 2 over 2 with horns, 2 modern fixed light or casement windows, and 1 rectangular panelled door. The north-west facing side has an open-fronted shelter of modern construction across its front. The rear side has a lean-to slated range with roughcast walling. The south-west facing side of the rear return wing is 2-storey with roughcast walling, timber sashed windows 2 over 2 with horns, fixed light modern windows, and panelled and glazed ledged timber doors. The rear elevation of the single-storey extension to the south-west has roughcast walling, slated roof, plastic rainwater goods, and a modern glazed door set in a modern timber pilastered and pedimented surround.

The south-west elevation of the main block is a white-painted roughcast gable with oversailing eaves, containing a timber sashed window, 6 over 6, without horns. Projecting from the gable is the lower single-storey extension with a blind gable of white-painted roughcast and black-painted smooth rendered plinth.

The building stands set back slightly from the main street behind a garden bounded by re-used iron railings and a pedestrian gate. To the right of the single-storey extension is a low roughcast screen wall containing a pair of re-used iron vehicular gates, which leads to an extensive concrete side yard. To the left of the main block is a flat-panelled gate giving access to a hard-surfaced rear yard. The building and railings are listed.